Job Title: Product Safety & Quality Advisor Senior – Retail Packaging
Location: Seattle, WA – Onsite preferred; remote considered for exceptional candidates
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Product Safety & Quality Advisor Senior with a strong background in retail packaging, packaging quality, supplier quality, and material science. This role supports packaging innovation, sustainability initiatives, product safety, quality programs, supplier performance, and packaging specifications.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply technical packaging knowledge across food-contact and non-food-contact packaging materials.
- Support testing, product assessments, supplier assessments, packaging specifications, and quality programs.
- Analyze product and supplier quality signals, audit findings, metrics, field feedback, and regulatory information.
- Identify quality trends and lead investigations and resolution of packaging-related issues.
- Develop and implement packaging quality programs, product standards, and supplier quality requirements.
- Partner with suppliers and cross-functional/global teams to support new packaging initiatives and operating practices.
- Support manufacturing and process capability assessments.
- Ensure packaging products meet applicable product safety, quality, and compliance requirements.
Required Qualifications
- 3–5+ years of retail packaging, packaging QA, supplier quality, or materials-focused quality experience.
- Strong packaging/material science knowledge with emphasis on plastics, pulp, and paper.
- Experience with food-contact packaging, disposable cups, lids, paper, plastics, compostable fiber, and related materials.
- Experience developing and implementing quality programs and product standards.
- Experience performing manufacturer, supplier, or product quality audits.
- Knowledge of HACCP, GMP, ISO, GFSI, and/or BRC-compliant quality management systems.
- Experience reviewing information required for product safety and quality compliance.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and attention to detail.
- Microsoft Office proficiency.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent professional experience considered.
Packaging Materials Experience
Preferred experience with:
- Poly-coated paperboard / hot cups
- Polypropylene (PP) cups and lids
- PLA and PHA
- Molded pulp/fiber
- Corrugated and containerboard
- Disposable utensils and related packaging
Nice to Have
- Lean Six Sigma
- Smartsheet
- Manufacturing/process capability experience
AES is a premier technology consulting company that brings together businesses and talent to deliver the most innovative technology solutions that create the most positive impact to society.In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustainbusiness relevance- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain businessperformance- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business modelOur team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core ofwhat we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.