Assistant Quality Manager
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Job overview
Under the Quality Manager’s leadership, the Assistant Quality Manager supports food safety, quality, and sanitation programs at the facility, helping the Quality department meet internal and external customer expectations. The role supports laboratory activities, regulatory compliance, audits, instrument calibration, customer specifications, employee training, and location-specific quality programs, while providing backup to quality staff and relief coverage for other locations.
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Summary:
Under the Quality Manager’s leadership, the Assistant Quality Manager will support the implementation and maintenance of food safety, quality, and sanitation programs of the facility. This includes helping to ensure the Quality department meets internal and external customer expectations.
Primary Responsibilities:
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Support all activities in the laboratory and perform lab analysis as needed.
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Provide support for meeting FDA compliance around GMP’s, Food Safety Plan (HACCP), Food Defense.
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Provide support for customer, 3rd party, and company audits for compliance.
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Comply with established data quality control protocols, investigate and rectify discrepancies.
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Ensure laboratory standards are prepared according to established protocols and used as prescribed in the laboratory protocols to validate instrument operation.
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Assure instrument calibration is conducted as prescribed, verify results, and maintain records of each instrument for which calibration procedures have been established.
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Assist in writing up customer specifications during each crop year.
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Assist with companywide employee training programs.
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Assist in developing location specific quality policies and programs
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Provide support and backup to Quality Manager and Quality Technician responsibilities
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Provide relief coverage for other locations.
Qualifications:
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Bachelors Degree Food Science, Grain Science or Baking, or equivalent industry experience with progressively responsible laboratory assignments in food manufacturing quality labs.
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Working knowledge of major commercial software programs.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
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Requires a behavioral work style that is approachable, collaborative, hands-on and shows attention to detail.
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Basic knowledge of food plant sanitation, pest control, cGMP’s.
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HACCP and PCQI certification recommended or will be provided.
How this job compares
Set against the 580 open Quality Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$120–176K/yr313 salary ranges
- US median$34–50/hr29 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 38 open Quality Management jobs in Texas and 580 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- Quality Management postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (477 postings).
- Education
- 242 of the 580 open Quality Management jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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