Quality Manager

The Quality Manager will lead and develop the Quality team while partnering with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Supply Chain to drive continuous improvement, reduce defects, and strengthen a proactive quality culture.

A key focus will be modernizing quality processes through simplification, digital tools, data analytics, automation, and AI to improve efficiency and decision-making without compromising quality or compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the QA/QC team, overseeing inspection, testing, laboratory controls, and product quality.
• Maintain and improve the Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with applicable standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 17025, SQF, HACCP, and GMP.
• Lead audits, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), root cause investigations, and customer and supplier quality initiatives.
• Monitor quality KPIs, identify trends, reduce defects, and improve Right First Time performance.
• Drive continuous improvement using Lean, Six Sigma, WCM/TPM, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Simplify quality processes and implement digital tools, automation, dashboards, and analytics to improve efficiency.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve process capability, reduce waste, and lower the cost of poor quality.
• Support new product introductions, process changes, and customer requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Food Science, Quality, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of progressive manufacturing quality experience, including leadership or management responsibility.
• Strong experience in both Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• Knowledge of QMS, audits, CAPA, root cause analysis, and manufacturing quality standards.
• Experience with continuous improvement, Lean/Six Sigma, WCM/TPM, and statistical process control (SPC).
• Demonstrated ability to improve quality systems, processes, and team performance.
• Experience with digital quality tools, data analytics, or automation is highly desirable.
• Quality certifications such as ASQ, Lead Auditor, PCQI, or HACCP are a plus.
• Chemical processing, quality engineering, or chemistry experience is beneficial.

Ideal Candidate:

A hands-on, analytical leader who uses data and systematic problem-solving to prevent quality issues rather than simply detect them. The successful candidate will be a strong team developer, continuous improvement advocate, and change agent who can modernize quality practices while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance.

Limited travel required (less than 10%).

We are a firm focused in the STEM Talent Arena; Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

We build and have long term relationships with our clients and represent our clients transparently. We pride ourselves in understanding a candidate's skill set, and the culture and work environment that is a best fit for both the candidate and the client.