About the role
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. Identify and hire for key roles on your team.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated expertise in Quality Management and Quality Assurance, including building and maintaining robust quality systems.
- Experience in Quality Control and Quality Auditing for manufacturing environments, preferably in beverages, food, or related industries.
- Proficiency in Supplier Quality oversight, including vendor evaluation, incoming material inspection, and corrective action management.
- Strong knowledge of regulatory and industry standards relevant to beverage production (e.g., TTB, food safety, GMP, HACCP).
- Proven leadership experience managing cross-functional teams and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to interpret data and implement practical solutions.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with operations, R&D, and senior leadership.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Quality Management, Food Science, Engineering, or similar; advanced degree or professional certifications (e.g., ASQ, Six Sigma) are a plus.
- Experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment and familiarity with safety programs, risk assessments, and incident investigations.
Compensation
$130,000 to $160,000 per year + PTO, medical, dental.
Why join Very Good
- Work directly with top quality personnel at industry-leading alcohol brands.
- Work with modern quality control instrumentation and resources - Anton Paar DMA/alcolyzer, in-line pH meters, automated inspection systems, and a full on-site R&D Lab.
- Opportunity to grow with the company - we promote from within and actively encourage skill development and cross-training. Individual contributors and future managers both have promotion tracks.
- More drinks than you could ever imagine.
