Director of Quality, Safety & Compliance $130,000 - $160,000 per year

We blend, bottle, and can distilled spirits and ready-to-drink cocktails for the biggest beverage-alcohol brands in the world, names you'd recognize from any back bar. Brands like that don't take a co-packer's word for quality. They send their own auditors, who pull records and walk the floor. We are looking to build the system that keeps product safe, keeps people safe, and keeps passing those audits with room to spare. This role builds and owns that system, then oversees it on the floor while production runs. Write the quality system. HACCP and food safety plans, SOPs, specs, batch records, sanitation and CIP verification, supplier approval, CAPA, document control. Written for our lines and our people. The bar every document has to clear: a new QC tech, alone on night shift, can run it without calling anyone. Run quality while the lines run. You're on the floor daily. Fill checks, seam and torque checks, date codes, label ID, proofing, batch record review, holds and dispositions, release decisions. When something's out of spec at 6am, you decide what happens next. You lead the root cause work after. Own the audits, all of them. Customer audits from the largest brand owners in spirits, the BRCGS certification you'll lead us through, TTB and TABC recordkeeping. When client quality teams visit, you're the person in the room. Safety is yours too. This plant moves glass, forklifts, and high-proof ethanol. OSHA programs and training are yours: lockout/tagout, hazcom, hot work, forklift, incident investigation. Same standard as the quality docs: written to be used. Build the department. What it takes 7+ years of quality in food, beverage, or spirits manufacturing, including real time in a plant running high-speed bottling or canning lines. You have personally and recently: written a HACCP or food safety plan from scratch, owned a CAPA from nonconformance to verified close, and hosted a customer or certification audit. You can walk us through all three in specifics, because you were the one doing them. Working command of at least one GFSI scheme at practitioner level. BRCGS ideally; FSSC 22000 or SQF depth transfers. Slide-deck familiarity doesn't count. Sufficient safety background to own OSHA programs at a small plant, or a track record that says you'll build that competence fast. You write clearly and with purpose. The output of this job is documents people use. Helps, but not required: PCQI or HACCP certification. BRCGS auditor or SQF practitioner training. Spirits or TTB experience. ASP, CSP, or another safety credential. Spanish. Plant-startup experience. The deal $130,000 to $160,000 per year depending on experience, plus a discretionary performance bonus. PTO, medical and dental. Full-time, on-sit in Fort Worth. How we hire Video call Your background, and what you'd want to own here. On-site A working session and a floor walk while the lines are running. Writing exercise We give you a real scenario from our floor and you write the one-page procedure. We're reading for one thing: whether a new tech on nights could run it. Offer If it is a fit on both sides. Fine print This position works in and around an active production facility: moving machinery, forklift traffic, glass, and ethanol vapors, with noise and temperature variation. It requires standing and walking for extended periods and occasionally lifting up to 25 pounds. PPE is required in designated areas. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Very Good Manufacturing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. This job description describes the general nature of the work performed and is not an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications. Offers of employment are contingent on satisfactory completion of a background check and a post-offer drug screen in accordance with company policy. Employment with Very Good Manufacturing is at-will. Very Good Manufacturing is a high-speed beverage production facility in Fort Worth, Texas. We run contract production for leading alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage brands. We specialize in distilled spirits, ready-to-drink (RTD), and canned cocktails, and our high speed canning and bottling lines run all TTB-approved sizes and fill levels. We are the #1 co-packer in the country for 100ml cans (specialty format for craft distilled spirits and high proof canned cocktails), and we have a full on-site R&D Beverage Laboratory for private label beverage concepting & formulation. #J-18808-Ljbffr