Quality Manager Plant Food, Beverage, Pharma

Job Description

Quality Manager / Quality Assurance Manager / Quality Food Safety Manager

Position Summary

Our client, a well-respected multibillion-dollar food/beverage manufacturer with well-known, iconic brands, seeks a hands-on, energetic Quality Manager for their key flagship plant.

As a key member of the plant leadership team, you’ll oversee all aspects of Food Safety and Quality — including regulatory compliance, continuous improvement, training, and team leadership.

You'll manage a large team of over 50 employees, and serve as the site’s key liaison for audits, product quality, and professional support to Sales, R&D, and Operations on customer support.

This highly visible role offers significant growth potential, excellent benefits, and relocation support.

Location: Modesto, CA

Position reports to: Corporate Director, Food Safety and Quality.

Responsibilities:

• Food Safety & Quality Compliance: Ensure daily plant operations comply with all internal policies, customer requirements, and federal/state regulations (FDA, CFIA).
• Audit & Certification Leadership: Lead the plant’s HACCP, SQF, and FSMA programs. Serve as site liaison for regulatory and third-party audits and inspections.
• Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of QA professionals. Promote ownership of Food Safety & Quality throughout the facility.
• Training & Orientation: Deliver and maintain robust onboarding and annual training programs on GMPs, Food Safety, and Quality standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead and track performance on quality KPIs, including complaint reduction, audit readiness, and quality incident prevention. Own FS&Q pillar for continuous improvement systems.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with Operations, Maintenance, R&D, and Sales to support production quality, resolve customer issues, and implement new product launches.
• Vendor Quality: Collaborate with Corporate QA to address supplier performance and drive corrective actions.
• Documentation & SOPs: Develop and maintain plant and lab SOPs. Manage the departmental budget.
• Sanitation & Environmental Monitoring: Ensure strong programs are in place for sanitation, pest control, and environmental monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in Quality Assurance in Food or Beverage or Pharmaceutical manufacturing.
• 5+ years Leadership experience.
• Excellent understanding of HACCP, GMPs, FSMA, SQF Code, Food Allergens, Microbiology and root cause analysis.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement.

Why is This a Great Opportunity

Great company, excellent benefits, significant opportunities for advancement

We are an emerging recruitment organization working with well-known clients based in the USA. Our services offer a wide range of functions related to recruitment. Our young yet experienced team strives to offer the best services to our clients. 

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