Since 1918, Seattle Fish Co. has supplied the highest quality seafood available in the world to restaurants, hotels, caterers, and grocers throughout Denver and the Rocky Mountain area. As the region’s largest supplier of fresh fish, we’re proud to provide our community with an unparalleled selection of seafood that showcases the same passionate dedication to personal service that this multigenerational family company has fostered for over a century.

Seattle Fish is proud to expand its premium protein options by acquiring Lombardi Brothers Meats. Lombardi Brothers Meats is dedicated to providing the highest quality product, delivered with world class service, throughout Colorado and the surrounding states consistently since 1947.

The Senior Quality Assurance Technician will play a key role in developing, implementing, and maintaining the Food Safety and Quality Culture across both seafood and meat operations. This position requires strong leadership, initiative, and a desire to grow within the organization. The ideal candidate will have experience in both seafood and meat processing, and will serve as a backup to the QA Manager for audits, documentation, and training. This role offers a growth path depending on performance and organizational needs.

Reports to: Food Safety Quality Assurance Manager

Shift: approximately 8am start time

Schedule: Must be flexible to work different schedules and/or weekends when needed

Location: Denver, CO

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and train production teams in seafood and meat quality, food safety, cleaning/sanitation goals and expectations.
• Inspect receiving process and verify incoming product quality, involving rinsing some species of fish, conduct daily random reviews of product storage and best-by dates.
• Generate daily reports for key team members.
• Identify improvement opportunities and implement corrective actions including root cause evaluations, coaching, training, CAPA closures, and process improvements.
• Training new hires as well as seasoned employees in food quality standards, company, customer specifications, and food safety processes.
• Lead the weekly Quality Meeting
• Adapt to rapidly changing situations and multitask effectively.
• Serve as point of contact for all quality issues.
• Review customer product returns and collaborate with teams to validate, reduce, and eliminate issues.
• Act as backup to the FSQA Manager when needed, supporting all food safety duties and audit preparations and documents.
• Review and update SOPs, SSOPs, and specification sheets.
• Conduct daily quality checks on the production floor.
• Communicate clearly with production, maintenance, receiving, warehouse, procurement, sales, and other teams
• Monitor and enforce GMPs, HACCP, SOPs and SSOPs
• Maintain clean and organized workspaces aligned with food safety standards.
• Conduct equipment swab tests and calibrate production equipment as required.
• Coordinate communication between manufacturing associates and QA personnel.
• Conduct environmental testing for pathogens.
• Support document creation and audit readiness for both seafood and meat operations.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in food production and bachelor’s degree in related field is a plus
• Experience with Internal Auditing, Corrective & Preventive Action, and Problem-Solving Disciplines.
• Supervisory experience/skills are essential
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures in an industrial environment including SQF, HACCP, GMP and SSOP
• Experience with implementing and documenting quality systems in a manufacturing setting
• Strong computer and communication skills.
• Bilingual in Spanish is a plus
• Maintain a clean and organized work area.
• Work within established safe work practices, policies and procedures.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, teamwork, and respect for all team members
• Safety mindset and punctuality
• Flexible/adaptable – ability to work overtime as needed
• Must reside in the Denver area as this position is ineligible for relocation

Expanded Leadership and Growth Responsibilities:

The Senior QA Technician will also serve as critical support to the QA Manager by acting as a backup during audits and regulatory visits, including those conducted by the FDA, USDA, and SQF, as well as some customer audits. This individual must be capable of representing the company in these settings, communicating effectively with auditors, and defending the facility’s food safety and quality systems.

This role requires strong initiative, leadership, and a proactive mindset. The Senior QA Technician will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of food safety and quality documentation, including SOPs, SSOPs, and audit records. They will also be expected to contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and support the development of QA programs.

Experience in both seafood and meat quality assurance is desirable, as is the ability to lead by example and foster a strong food safety culture.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to;

• Stand on your feet for at least 8-hour shifts and walk regularly
• Navigate narrow and irregular production areas.
• Regularly lift and/or push/pull up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or push/pull up to 100 pounds
• Frequently walk, bend, stoop, crouch, squat, kneel, and twist
• Frequently use hands/fingers to grasp and pinch
• Frequently reach below waist, above waist, and above shoulders with arms and hands
• Verbal communication
• Ability to hear speech and mechanical sounds (machine alerts, safety alerts, quality alerts)
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus and ability to see colors
• Tolerate cold, wet environment

Seattle Fish Co. believes each employee makes a signification contribution to the company's success. The contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline the responsibilities but not limited to such responsibilities. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Benefits:

Seattle Fish offers a comprehensive benefit packaging including:

• Medical insurance

• Dental and vision insurance

• Company paid life insurance

• Company paid long-term and short-term disability

• 401k retirement plan

• Discount pricing on seafood, meat, and gourmet products

Our Commitment:

We believe every employee has the right to work in an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful discrimination. Consistent with applicable laws, Seattle Fish Company makes all decisions involving any aspect of the employment relationship without regard to race, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship, the presence of any physical or mental disability of someone otherwise qualified, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law. Discrimination and/or harassment based on any of those factors are inconsistent with our philosophy of doing business and will not be tolerated. This policy of non-discrimination applies to all aspects application procedures, hiring, advancement, transfers, reductions in force, discharge, compensation, training, or other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.