Sr Mgr QA Manufacturing
About The Position
The Sr Mgr QA Manufacturing for the Kansas Hub provides strategic and technical leadership for food quality and safety across multiple manufacturing sites. The role strengthens testing, preventive controls, risk management, and continuous improvement, partnering with Operations, R&D, laboratories, and senior leaders to protect consumers, brands, and long-term business performance. This position serves as an advanced Food Quality & Safety subject matter expert with broad impact across multiple sites or a business unit. It leads large-scale quality and food safety programs, including strategic testing capabilities, risk management frameworks, and major continuous improvement efforts. The role advises senior leaders on systemic risks and opportunities, provides technical direction to junior SMEs and project teams, and represents the function in cross-functional and, where appropriate, external forums. Working with limited direction, it addresses complex issues and develops strategic recommendations that shape system design and resource allocation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- At least 7 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, food safety, or manufacturing.
- Progressive leadership responsibility in a high-speed consumer goods environment.
- Experience with regulatory compliance, HACCP or preventive controls, microbiological and analytical testing, sanitation, incident management, and multi-site or business-unit programs.
Nice To Haves
- A degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Biology, Management Science, or a related field.
- SQF Practitioner certification.
- Preventive Controls Qualified Individual certification.
- HACCP certification.
- Six Sigma certification.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, governance, and rollout of multi-site quality and food safety initiatives, defining objectives, scope, success measures, and implementation plans.
- Set direction for analytical and microbiological testing capabilities; assess gaps in methods, technology, and capacity and prioritize improvements with laboratory, R&D, and Operations partners.
- Lead complex risk assessments and HACCP or preventive control reviews for new technologies, products, processes, and network changes.
- Provide technical leadership for significant or cross-site food safety and quality incidents, including investigation strategy, data collection, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and effectiveness verification.
- Use quality, testing, incident, and process-performance insights to recommend improvements to standards, systems, governance, and resource allocation.
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, Good Manufacturing Practices, corporate programs, and GFSI/SQF expectations; serve as a key liaison during inspections and external interactions.
- Build capability across site Quality, Microbiology, and Sanitation teams through coaching, training, technical direction, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Consolidate quality and food safety performance insights and communicate trends and implications to senior leadership.
- Monitor initiative execution and performance, recommend adjustments, and oversee follow-up to confirm intended outcomes and risk reduction.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage beginning on Day 1.
- Wellness programs supporting physical and mental health.
- Competitive pay and annual incentive opportunities.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- Flexible ways of working where applicable.
- Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
