Quality Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Chemistry, Food Science, Quality, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 5 years of progressive Quality experience in manufacturing, with demonstrated management or leadership responsibility.
• Strong practical experience across both Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• Experience with QMS, audits, CAPA, root-cause analysis, customer quality, and applicable manufacturing or food-safety standards.
• Demonstrated experience improving or simplifying quality processes, not only maintaining established systems.
• Proven experience leading structured continuous-improvement programs with measurable business results.
• Strong analytical capabilities, KPI management, systematic loss analysis, and ability to establish standards, sustain improvements, and build a proactive problem-solving culture.
• Ability to develop and coach cross-functional teams in WCM/TPM/Lean methodologies.
• Change-oriented, hands-on, continuous-improvement-minded, data-driven, influential, digitally curious, and adaptable with learning agility.

Nice To Haves

• Quality Engineering experience, chemical processing experience, and/or knowledge of chemistry.
• Experience implementing digital quality tools, automation, analytics, or process improvements.
• Lean/Six Sigma, ASQ certification, Lead Auditor, PCQI, HACCP, or similar qualifications, where relevant.
• Experience with WCM/TPM, Quality Maintenance, RCA, 5 Why, Fishbone, statistical process control (SPC), and Lean Six Sigma.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the QA/QC team at the assigned manufacturing site, setting priorities, responsibilities, and performance expectations.
• Ensure effective inspection, testing, laboratory controls, product release, and quality assurance processes, as applicable.
• Develop the technical and leadership capabilities of the Quality team and collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Supply Chain.
• Implement and maintain the QMS and applicable regulatory, customer, and certification requirements; manage nonconformances, CAPAs, management of change, audits, document control, and quality training.
• Maintain compliance with applicable standards and programs, including ISO 9001, ISO 17025, SQF, HACCP, GMP, and IPEC; sustain audit readiness and timely corrective actions, and escalate significant risks to the Head of Quality.
• Monitor quality KPIs, analyze data to identify risks and improvement opportunities, lead root-cause investigations, and ensure corrective actions are effective.
• Strengthen preventive quality practices, improve right-first-time performance, reduce recurring nonconformances and cost of poor quality, and share lessons and successful practices across sites.
• Simplify QA/QC procedures and workflows, reduce unnecessary complexity and manual work while maintaining required controls, and harmonize practices across sites where appropriate.
• Improve use of QMS and digital quality tools, data, dashboards, and analytics; identify and implement practical automation and AI opportunities; measure the impact of changes.
• Lead responses to significant customer quality concerns, including containment, investigation, and corrective actions, and manage supplier quality issues and supplier corrective actions.
• Support new products, process changes, and business opportunities by identifying quality risks and appropriate controls; represent Quality in cross-functional initiatives and provide fact-based input to business decisions.
• Apply WCM/TPM methodologies, particularly the Quality Maintenance pillar, and drive zero defects, prevention at source, process capability improvement, structured problem solving, Lean Six Sigma, right-first-time performance, complaint reduction, and systematic quality loss elimination.
• Develop shop-floor quality ownership through standardization, operator training, and continuous improvement; coach cross-functional teams and sustain measurable improvements.