Compliance Coordinator / PCQI

Company: Darling International
Location: Bastrop
Posted on: May 19, 2025

Job Description:

Utilize your quality assurance expertise and take advantage of this high visibility role where you will make a real impact on the organization. Grow your career with this recession-proof, stable manufacturer that can offer you excellent benefits, a daytime Monday - Friday schedule, and competitive compensation (up to $90,000 in your first year, based on experience!)

Darling Ingredients is seeking a Compliance Coordinator to join our Bastrop, TX team.

This is a critical role responsible for the daily facility implementation of the DII food safety and quality system. This includes developing and maintaining the Food Safety Plan, overseeing management components of preventive controls, implementing prerequisite programs (CGMPs), and training qualified individuals to meet FSMA requirements and other assigned quality assurance and food safety job responsibilities.

If you have at least 1 year of experience in quality assurance in the food, chemical, agricultural, or a related industry and a high school diploma or equivalent, Darling Ingredients wants to hear from you! PCQI certification is a huge plus but not required. Darling Ingredients is happy to assist you in receiving your PCQI certification!

Why Compliance Coordinators join the Darling team:

• Competitive pay - You can expect to earn between $70,000 - $90,000 in your first year, based on experience. If you have your PCQI certification and prior experience, you can expect to be closer to $90,000.
• Excellent Benefits - Including medical, dental, vision, 401k plan with company contribution, paid time off, paid holidays, and more!
• Advancement Opportunities- Darling Ingredients believes on promoting from within and is always looking for key players motivated to move up to higher level roles!
• Primarily daytime Monday-Friday schedule: Some weekend work is required based on business needs.
• Incredible Stability: Having been in the business for over 140 years, Darling Ingredients is the global leader in rendering services and continues to grow. Enjoy a bright, stable future in a recession proof industry.
• Sustainability: Darling Ingredients is proud to help our planet by keeping waste out of landfills with their services by recycling cooking oil and meat waste and turning them into renewable fuels, animal feeds, and fertilizers. Essential duties/responsibilities:
  • Serves on Facility Product Safety Team.
  • Responsible for writing and maintaining the facility food safety plan/s in cooperation with the corporate Quality Assurance and Product Safety Team.
  • Maintains the most current version of the Food Safety Plan on the Quality Assurance and Product Compliance SharePoint site. Maintains accessibility of the most current version of the Food Safety Plan onsite, either paper or electronic copy.
  • Leads the annual food safety team review of the facility Food Safety Plan.
  • Performs/observes activities as outlined in the Food Safety plan. Implements facility CGMPs and COR policies.
  • Verifies daily forms that are kept for CGMPs.
  • Performs weekly, monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, and yearly QA activities.
  • Certified PCQI holds the plant employees accountable for daily activities, reports to plant management.
  • Assists with training of all plant and fleet personnel on food safety requirements and CGMPS as applicable. Includes training a backup of the job duties and responsibilities in the absence or unavailability of the Compliance Coordinator.
  • Promotes a proactive food safety culture at all times.
  • Helps host regulatory inspections, as well as internal, third party, and customer audits. Maintains resulting documentation/reports from these types of visits, including corrective and preventive actions as applicable.
  • Attends regularly scheduled food safety, turnover, and safety meetings.
  • Maintains clean, neat and orderly work areas at all times.
  • Responsible for using assigned safety equipment including a hard hat, safety glasses or goggles, ear plugs and responsible for being familiar with and observing all Company safety rules and regulations.
  • Responsible for observing all Company safety rules and regulations, recognizing safety as a top Company priority.
  • All other duties as assigned by management.
    About the Company: We began as a family business in 1882 and have continued to grow into the world's leading innovative developer and producer of sustainable organic ingredients for a growing population. Headquartered in Irving, TX with regional offices in Cold Spring, KY and Des Moines, IA as well as production facilities across the U.S., we have over 15,000 employees across the globe. We repurpose and reuse rather than discarding what others might consider waste. We capture valuable ingredients and nutrients to help maximize what nature has to offer, providing components for a wide range of products that include pet food, fertilizer, and biofuel. Giving nature a second life is our second nature.
    
    Our greatest assets are our employees. Our inclusive global workforce and their wide variety of skills, abilities, experiences, and perspectives have been critical in helping us consistently deliver best-in-class results around the world. In order to attract and retain employees who share our values of integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship, we offer competitive pay, excellent benefits, stability, and opportunities for career growth.
    
    Darling Ingredients is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military service, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Know Your Rights: If you would like more information, please click on the link and paste into your browser: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster
    
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