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Quality Systems Manager

Blue Signal Search

Quality Systems Manager

Our client is expanding a high visibility manufacturing operation and is looking for a quality leader who can help strengthen systems, elevate compliance, and support the next phase of site growth. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who brings solid quality leadership experience and is ready to step into a role with broad ownership, meaningful cross functional influence, and direct impact on plant performance. The right person will help build a culture where quality, accountability, and continuous improvement work hand in hand.

This Role Offers

  • Competitive base compensation
  • Strong visibility across plant leadership and operations
  • A chance to step into a role with room to grow and make a measurable impact
  • An onsite environment where quality leadership is valued and highly connected to business success

Focus

  • Lead sitewide quality systems for a regulated manufacturing operation, ensuring processes, records, and finished goods align with internal standards and external requirements
  • Direct audit readiness, nonconformance review, CAPA follow up, and documentation practices that support a disciplined, inspection ready culture
  • Partner with production, maintenance, and cross functional leaders to investigate issues, strengthen root cause response, and prevent repeat events
  • Support food safety and compliance programs tied to sanitation, environmental monitoring, validation activity, and supplier quality performance
  • Coach and develop quality personnel, building capability in training, escalation, and day-to-day execution
  • Use metrics and trend data to identify improvement opportunities and help the site scale with consistency

Ideal Background

  • 5 plus years experience of quality leadership within food, beverage, packaging, plastics, consumer products, or another regulated manufacturing setting
  • Working knowledge of GMPs, HACCP, CAPA, audits, and structured quality systems, FDA environment helpful
  • Experience leading or mentoring quality staff in a plant setting
  • Comfortable working closely with operations and production teams to drive alignment and results
  • Strong communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills
  • Bachelor degree in a related technical field is helpful, though equivalent industry experience can also be valuable

Why Candidates Will Be Interested

This opportunity is especially attractive for a strong quality professional who is ready for broader ownership and wants to grow with an operation that values leadership potential. The role offers a blend of hands on quality systems work, team leadership, and site level influence, making it a compelling next step for someone ready to move from supervisor or lead level into a larger management scope.

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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