Manager Quality Assurance
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The Manager Quality Assurance leads the plant quality department, ensuring food safety, regulatory compliance, continuous improvement, and finished-product conformance. The role partners with plant operations, R&D, and plant leadership; oversees quality and sanitation programs, investigations, audits, and customer issues; and provides food safety and regulatory training to plant personnel.
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JOB REQUIREMENTS: GENERAL PURPOSE Manage and lead a quality department and ensure effective quality execution, continuous improvement, and regulatory compliance. In conjunction with plant operations, maintain an effective culture of food safety and quality within the facility. Develop and/or maintain processes that ensure finished product is food safe and meets finished product specifications. Function as a highly organized and effective communicator with the ability to investigate and lead solution-based decision making in the plant. JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES * Ensure daily plant quality and food safety operations are compliant with DFA policies and procedures and local, state, and federal regulations * Maintain audit readiness * Maintain a robust food safety program and subsequent quality program * Escalate non-conformance events to the quality director and plant manager * Oversee plant sanitation to drive a robust sanitation program * Ensure the plant pest control programs are current, followed, and utilized to enable proactive maintenance * Manage the facility's change control program to enable robust risk assessment and decisions * Ensure compliance to specification, manufacturing instructions, and preventive maintenance programs. Partner with operations to ensure preventive maintenance program is robust and adhered to * Collaboratively lead investigations relating to non-conforming events driving to root cause(s) and effective resolution * Manage hold and release programs * Review records daily to ensure all records are completed as required and review/approval is current for preventive controls, laboratory, sanitation, production, and verification checks * Track and report on plant quality key performance indicators (KPIs) * Participate in the annual plant budgeting process * Partner with the plant manager on identifying key capital projects that support food safety and quality initiatives * Provide training to the plant personnel concerning food safety, Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and regulatory compliance * Provide quality leadership during unplanned events or emergencies * Provide visible leadership by participating in facility walk throughs and internal audits * Engage and interact with all personnel on a regular basis assisting them with their challenges and questions concerning food safety * Collaborate with R&D during new/reformulated product introduction to ensure compliance with already established specifications and regulatory requirements * Serve as the point of contact for customer related issues, complaints, or inquires * Manage plant complaint investigations ensuring a thorough, effective, timely and customer facing response * Monitor compliance to customer expectation and specifications; communicate any issues/concerns * Maintain plant preparedness for customer and regulatory visits * Manage all analytical and micro... For full info follow application link. EEO/AA/Female/Minority/Disabled/Veteran ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/F519ADDC9CF146CE
How this job compares
Set against the 437 open Quality Assurance Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$91–140K/yr290 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Quality Assurance Manager jobs in Wisconsin and 437 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Quality Assurance Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (303 postings).
- Education
- 112 of the 437 open Quality Assurance Manager jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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