Regional Quality Assurance Manager – Food Manufacturing
Intermedia Group, Inc. · Albert Lea, MN ·
- Category
- QA
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Salary
- USD 130,000 – 145,000 / year
Oversee food-safety and quality systems across multiple manufacturing sites, ensuring regulatory compliance and driving continuous improvement in product quality and team performance.
OPEN JOB: Regional Quality Assurance Manager – Food Manufacturing
LOCATION: Albert Lea, Minnesota
**Relocation Assistance Available
SALARY: $130,000 to $145,000
INDUSTRY: Food & Beverages
JOB CATEGORY: Manufacturing - Quality
Ideal Candidate
People:
Systems:
Knowledge & Experience:
REQUIREMENTS:
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please respond back and include the following:
• MS WORD Resume
• required compensation.
• Contact information.
• Availability
Upon receipt, one of our managers will contact you to discuss the position in full detail.
Stephen Fleischner
INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC.
Email: [email protected]
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LOCATION: Albert Lea, Minnesota
**Relocation Assistance Available
SALARY: $130,000 to $145,000
INDUSTRY: Food & Beverages
JOB CATEGORY: Manufacturing - Quality
Ideal Candidate
- Bachelors Degree
- 10 years+ Quality Assurance experience
- Solid QA experience in the Food and Beverage manufacturing industry.
- experience managing teams
- Experience managing multiple sites.
- Solid FDA, HACCP, SQF, and industry best practices experience
- The Regional Quality Assurance Manager is a key member of the corporate quality leadership team, responsible for ensuring that products manufactured across multiple sites are safe, compliant with company, customer, and regulatory standards, and meet quality expectations.
- This role drives a culture of excellence through leadership, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration.
People:
- Responsible for development and performance of the regional quality team
- Builds strong cross functional relationships and demonstrates ability to effectively influence sites strategy
- Develops a culture that drives quality improvements and efficiently interfaces with operational excellence processes
- Develop and deliver training programs focused on food safety and quality.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
- Timely escalation and communication of food safety, quality, financial issues
- Effectively cascade goals using tools such as SMART goals. Aligns with teams on standard work.
- Motivates and builds team strength
Systems:
- Accountable for the effective application of Product Safety, Product Quality and prerequisite systems regionally. Ensures these systems effectively interface with change control and commercialization processes.
- Strong ability to root cause issues and eliminate the cause or implement engineering or systems improvements to enact robust prevention. Applies use of basic root cause tools.
- Accountable for an effective internal audit program and ensures systems are working to reduce risk, and that corrective actions are completed
- Drives priorities that have largest positive impact on key performance indicators and metrics including but not limited to; Inspection/Compliance performance, First Pass Quality, Complaints, Disposals, Inventory Health, Customer Responsiveness, CAPA closure and effectiveness, systems performance, environmental & sanitation performance.
- Ensures that response to customers, inspectors and auditors are professional, timely, and in scope.
- Collaborates with R&D, Production, and commercial teams in the development and preparation for production of new Products, Processes, and Equipment to support new product/customer launches. Ensures the process quantifies the probability of success and clearly communicates the risks and proposed mitigations as an outcome of first-time makes.
- Interface with operational excellence programs to maximize effectiveness
- Provide support and aid in preparation for customer visits and external audits
- Share best practices and integrate quality systems across sites.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Operated in an FDA regulated environment, ideally food or dietary supplement
- Assess and mitigate food safety, regulatory, and cost risks.
- Apply sanitation principles effectively.
- Application of Statistical Process Control (SPC) for process evaluation and improvements.
- Effective project manager that knows how to prioritize and meet deadlines
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Science or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in food, supplement, or related industry, including management.
- Familiarity with FDA, HACCP, SQF, and industry best practices.
If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please respond back and include the following:
• MS WORD Resume
• required compensation.
• Contact information.
• Availability
Upon receipt, one of our managers will contact you to discuss the position in full detail.
Stephen Fleischner
INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC.
Email: [email protected]
LINKEDIN: