Quality Systems Manager

• Competitive base compensation
• Strong visibility across plant leadership and operations
• A chance to step into a role with room to grow and make a measurable impact
• An onsite environment where quality leadership is valued and highly connected to business success

• Lead sitewide quality systems for a regulated manufacturing operation, ensuring processes, records, and finished goods align with internal standards and external requirements
• Direct audit readiness, nonconformance review, CAPA follow up, and documentation practices that support a disciplined, inspection ready culture
• Partner with production, maintenance, and cross functional leaders to investigate issues, strengthen root cause response, and prevent repeat events
• Support food safety and compliance programs tied to sanitation, environmental monitoring, validation activity, and supplier quality performance
• Coach and develop quality personnel, building capability in training, escalation, and day-to-day execution
• Use metrics and trend data to identify improvement opportunities and help the site scale with consistency

• Background in quality leadership within food, beverage, packaging, plastics, consumer products, or another regulated manufacturing setting
• Working knowledge of GMPs, HACCP, CAPA, audits, and structured quality systems, FDA environment helpful
• Experience leading or mentoring quality staff in a plant setting
• Comfortable working closely with operations and production teams to drive alignment and results
• Strong communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills
• Bachelor degree in a related technical field is helpful, though equivalent industry experience can also be valuable

This opportunity is especially attractive for a strong quality professional who is ready for broader ownership and wants to grow with an operation that values leadership potential. The role offers a blend of hands on quality systems work, team leadership, and site level influence, making it a compelling next step for someone ready to move from supervisor or lead level into a larger management scope.

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