Quality Specialist

Interested in a career that matters?

At Novonesis, we use biology to create sustainable solutions that improve everyday life and address global challenges. Our work spans food and beverage, human health, agriculture, and industrial biotechnology-helping industries meet global challenges through innovation.

Quality and food safety are at the core of how we operate, enabling us to build trust with customers worldwide. At our Salem, VA site, you'll join a collaborative team working across production, laboratory, engineering, and sanitation to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant manufacturing operations.

If you're motivated to grow your career in quality and compliance while making a tangible impact in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, this role offers the opportunity to do just that.

The Role & Your Impact

As a Quality Specialist, you will lead daily quality and compliance activities in a biotechnology manufacturing environment, ensuring adherence to GMP and food safety standards. This is a highly cross-functional role with direct impact on manufacturing performance, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will serve as a key partner to operations-translating requirements into practical actions, resolving issues in real time, and strengthening quality systems to support safe and efficient production.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead daily quality and food safety activities within manufacturing operations
  
• Conduct GMP inspections, audits, and process verification to ensure compliance
  
• Partner with operations teams to identify and resolve quality issues in real time
  
• Investigate deviations, non-conformances, and customer complaints, and drive corrective actions
  
• Maintain and enhance food safety and quality management systems
  
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen process reliability and compliance
  
• Leverage digital tools and data (including AI-enabled systems) to improve trending, reporting, and workflows
  
• Ensure accurate documentation and support internal, regulatory, and customer audits
  
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with operations and technical teams
  

What You'll Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Biology, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, or a related field
  
• OR 3-5 years of manufacturing or production experience in food, biotech, pharmaceutical, or industrial environments with interest in quality/compliance
  
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
  
• Ability to work perform effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
  
• Proficiency with basic computer systems and digital tools
  
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities
  
• Willingness to learn and apply new technologies, systems, and AI-enabled tools
  

Additional Skills & Interests We Value

• Experience in biotech, food, pharmaceutical, or ingredient manufacturing
  
• Familiarity with GMP, HACCP, and food safety systems
  
• Experience with digital systems such as SAP, LIMS, MES, or Power BI
  
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing or continuous improvement methodologies
  
• Experience working cross-functionally within operations environments
  

What We Offer

• The opportunity to contribute to solutions that impact billions of people globally
  
• Hands-on experience in advanced biotechnology manufacturing
  
• Clear opportunities to grow into roles across quality, compliance, and operations leadership
  
• Development in AI-enabled manufacturing and data-driven decision-making
  
• A collaborative culture focused on continuous improvement, innovation, and sustainability
  

Ways of Working / Working Conditions

• A highly operations-facing role with regular presence on the production floor
  
• Close collaboration with cross-functional teams including operations and engineering
  
• Fast-paced environment requiring adaptability and proactive problem-solving
  
• Exposure to industrial manufacturing conditions and GMP-regulated environments
  

Compensation & Benefits

Expected salary range: $64,467-$88,644

Benefits you will enjoy:

• 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution
  
  
• Minimum of 3 weeks of vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of Wellness Time
  
  
• Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
  
  
• Healthcare savings account option with generous employer contribution
  
  
• Employee assistance program
  
  
• Parental leave
  
  
• Tuition reimbursement
  
  
• All benefits begin on your first day
  
  

Relevant Information

Location: Salem, VA

Application deadline: July 3, 2026

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity's biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It's how we've gotten so far. And it's how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.


Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.


We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.


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If this position isn't the right fit, you may still find other opportunities with us. You're welcome to explore open roles or create a job agent to stay connected with future opportunities at novonesis.com/Career