Regulatory Compliance Manager

Regulatory & Compliance Manager

Irwindale, CA | Temp-to-Hire | $35–$42 per hour

Help Shape Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory Excellence

We’re partnering with a well-established food manufacturing company specializing in custom-formulated specialty ingredients and flavors for leading food brands and retailers. With a long-standing history of innovation and a strong commitment to quality, food safety, and regulatory excellence, this company serves customers across multiple industries and locations.

We’re seeking a Regulatory & Compliance Professional to help strengthen compliance programs, support audit readiness, and ensure consistent regulatory and customer requirements across multiple facilities.

Are you a food industry compliance professional who enjoys bringing organization to complex regulatory requirements and helping teams stay ahead of the curve? This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on food safety, quality, and compliance while collaborating with teams across Quality, Regulatory, R&D, Operations, and more.

The Regulatory & Compliance Manager will:

• Coordinate compliance programs: Support certifications, audit readiness, and regulatory and customer requirements across multiple facilities.
• Coordinate Management of Change (MOC): Ensure proposed changes receive appropriate food safety, quality, regulatory, labeling, customer, and certification reviews before implementation.
• Drive corrective action follow-through: Coordinate root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective and preventive action (CAPA) submissions through customer, certification, and regulatory portals, tracking actions through timely closure.
• Maintain regulatory documentation: Manage facility registrations, licenses, certificates, regulatory databases, renewal schedules, and controlled compliance records.
• Support customer requirements: Coordinate customer questionnaires and gather accurate supporting documentation from cross-functional teams.
• Prepare for audits and inspections: Partner with Plant QA Managers to organize documentation, compile evidence, and support customer visits, audits, and inspections.
• Support certification programs: Help maintain compliance with SQF/GFSI, USDA Organic, Kosher, Non-GMO, GFCO, and other applicable customer or certification requirements.
• Monitor regulatory updates: Track relevant regulatory and certification changes, communicate requirements, and coordinate follow-up actions.
• Improve compliance processes: Develop practical trackers, reporting tools, and performance indicators to improve visibility, accountability, and on-time completion.
• Provide process guidance: Help teams follow established procedures for MOC, document control, portal submissions, and compliance activities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Regulatory Affairs, Microbiology, Chemistry, or a related field is strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of food manufacturing experience in regulatory compliance, quality systems, certification, audit coordination, or customer technical support.
• Current PCQI (Preventive Controls Qualified Individual) certification required.
• Working knowledge of FDA regulations, FSMA, food labeling principles, HACCP, GMP, and SQF/GFSI requirements.
• Experience coordinating audits, certifications, regulatory registrations, customer questionnaires, CAPA documentation, and compliance portals.
• Familiarity with Management of Change, document control, and cross-functional project coordination.
• Strong technical writing, organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and digital quality or document management systems; TraceGains experience is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently while collaborating with plant and corporate teams.
• Ability to travel to other company facilities as business needs require.