Food Safety and Quality Assurance Specialist

Food Safety & Quality Assurance Specialist

Location:

Indianapolis, IN (Onsite)

Travel:
Up to 10% domestic

Suvie is a food tech startup revolutionizing home cooking. We combine advanced kitchen appliances with premium meal kits to automate dinner for people who love great food but don't always have time to cook. With multiple appliances on the market and a growing base of loyal customers, we're scaling our meal kit operation — and we need someone to own food safety and quality from the inside out.

This is a ground-floor opportunity to build and run FSQA programs at a company where your work directly shapes what lands on customers' tables. You won't be buried in a large corporate quality department — you'll be the person responsible for making sure every kit that leaves our facility is safe, accurate, and delicious.

As our Food Safety & Quality Assurance Specialist, you'll be the primary owner of food safety, quality, and sanitation programs at our Indianapolis meal kitting facility. You'll work hands-on alongside our Operations and Culinary teams to ensure every ingredient and every kit meets regulatory requirements and our own high standards.

This is an individual contributor role with real ownership. You'll manage programs, not people — but what you manage matters enormously. You'll be the go-to expert on food safety in the building, and leadership will rely on your judgment to keep our products safe and our facility audit-ready.

• Own and maintain the facility's Food Safety Plan under FSMA Preventive Controls, ensuring all hazards are identified, controlled, and supported by current scientific documentation.
• Ensure compliance with FDA regulations, GFSI requirements, and applicable USDA-FSIS standards. Stay current on evolving food safety regulations and industry best practices.
• Manage the facility's HACCP/HARPC programs and serve as the site's Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI), or work toward that certification promptly after hire.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all regulatory inspections and third-party audits.

• Oversee incoming ingredient inspection: verify supplier specs, packaging integrity, temperature compliance, lot and date codes, and labeling accuracy for all pre-packaged sealed ingredients received at the facility.
• Monitor in-process quality during kit assembly, with particular focus on kit accuracy (right items in right boxes), packaging integrity, and proper labeling.
• Review and verify finished kit labels for regulatory compliance, including nutrition facts, ingredient declarations, allergen statements, and safe handling instructions.
• Hold authority to place product on hold and make disposition decisions when quality or safety concerns arise.

• Own the facility's allergen control program, including segregation protocols, labeling verification, and cross-contact prevention during kitting operations.
• Manage cold chain monitoring programs across receiving, storage, assembly, and shipping to ensure temperature integrity of frozen and refrigerated products.

• Monitor and audit sanitation processes and their impact on food safety and quality. Recommend process changes as needed.
• Manage the environmental monitoring program (swabbing, Listeria and pathogen testing) and coordinate third-party laboratory testing.
• Oversee pest control and foreign material control programs.

• Maintain documentation of supplier food safety plans, COAs, allergen documentation, and third-party audit results.
• Conduct on-site inspections and audits of current and potential suppliers.
• Lead food safety review for new ingredient and supplier onboarding, ensuring all documentation and specs are approved before product enters the facility.

• Own the facility's traceability program, including lot tracking systems and mock traceability and recall exercises.
• Investigate and document customer complaints. Conduct root cause analysis, trend data, and manage corrective and preventive…