Quality Assurance Manager Location: Albert Lea, Minnesota • Competitive salary and full benefits package • Leadership role on the site management team • Opportunity to drive food safety, quality, and regulatory excellence • Significant influence on plant operations, continuous improvement, and quality culture • Relocation assistance may be available for the right candidate What You'll Do • Lead all site Quality Assurance and Quality Control functions to ensure compliance with customer, regulatory, corporate, and food safety requirements. • Manage CAPA programs, including customer complaints, vendor complaints, nonconformances, corrective actions, and root cause investigations. • Oversee food safety and preventive control programs, including HACCP/HARPC, allergen control, sanitation, pest control, recall readiness, and environmental monitoring. • Maintain customer quality satisfaction through effective control of raw materials, in-process materials, manufacturing processes, and finished products. • Lead customer, vendor, third-party, and regulatory audits and inspections. • Partner with operations, supply chain, R&D, commercialization, and leadership teams to drive quality improvements and operational excellence. • Manage departmental staffing, budgets, training programs, employee development, and performance management. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives using SPC, root cause analysis, and quality systems. • Support commercialization efforts, product launches, specification development, and change control processes. • Ensure compliance with FDA, EPA, OSHA, GFSI, Kosher, Halal, RSPO, and other applicable standards and certifications. Requirements • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field. • Project Management & Change Management Experience. • 5+ years of experience in food, supplement, or related industry. • Familiarity with FDA. • GFSI Scheme (i.e., SQF, BRC). • Certification focused on Quality and Food Safety for Supply Chain requirement: PCQI or HACCP. • Ability to lift 50 lbs; required to stand, walk, sit, and reach. Skills & Certifications • 5+ years of Quality Assurance experience. • Solid FDA, HACCP, SQF, and industry best practices experience. • Bachelor's Degree. • Creates and maintains a quality culture. • US Citizen or Permanent Resident. • Industry experience in Food & Beverage Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, or Medical Device environments. Ideal Candidate • Strong Quality Assurance leadership experience within Food & Beverage manufacturing. • Experience managing and developing Quality teams. • Proven success leading food safety, compliance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives.