Quality Assurance Manager

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Join us as our new Quality Assurance Manager

The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for the oversight and functions associated with Quality Assurance for our Wausau, Wisconsin facility's operations. The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for training, developing, and empowering the facility quality assurance team while ensuring consistent proficiency and approach toward process improvements aimed at product quality and regulatory compliance. The Quality Assurance Manager demonstrates commitment to GMP compliance, food safety, continuous improvement, and corporate culture. The Quality Manager ensures that quality systems align with and support corporate goals, objectives, and strategies.

In this role you'll make an impact by:

• Collaborating closely with operations, quality control, engineering/maintenance and R&D teams to ensure proper implementation, sustainability, and compliance of manufacturing processes, food safety programs, and quality systems.

• Identifying GMP, food safety, and quality system training needs for the facility, oversee training, and act as SME instructor.

• Leading quality assurance team to ensure products are manufactured according to company policies and in compliance with regulations and customer requirements.

• Conducting or overseeing conduct of batch record reviews; review and release manufacturing work orders per specifications and acceptance activities using the ERP system.

• Writing, reviewing, and approving documentation (SOPs, Work Instructions, reports, etc.)

• Overseeing validation activities for manufacturing processes, equipment qualification, cleaning processes, and facilities to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and current industry practices.

• Recognizing and evaluate changes, including additions or modifications to a validated process/equipment/facility, to determine the need for and the extent of revalidation.

• Supporting investigation of deviations and unexpected or unusual observations, in both QC and manufacturing.

• Reviewing and/or conduct quality investigations, root cause analysis, identification, and implementation of corrective/preventive actions.

• Providing technical guidance on the purchase of materials and equipment related to GMP and food safety.

• Directing the supplier quality management program.

• Participating in regulatory inspections, third-party inspections, and customer audits. Conduct follow-ups where corrective action is required.

• Reporting on quality system performance via the internal quality audit and management review processes.

• Maintaining third-party certification compliance: Organic, Kosher, Halal, NSF, etc. as applicable

• Escalating significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and the actions being taken to improve the situation.

• Driving employee relations and engagement.

• Driving and be an example of Novonesis culture.

• Other duties as assigned.

To succeed you must hold:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in microbiology with 5+ years of QA/QC experience with increasing levels of responsibility, including 3+ years of directQuality Management experience.

• Experience leading employees through change.

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements that affect food, dietary supplements is strongly preferred.

• Preventive Controls Qualified Individual preferred.

• Knowledge of GMP, validations and qualifications, internal auditing, handling of regulatory inspections, change control, deviations, CAPA investigation, verification, and closure.

• Hands-on experience in the following: Validations and qualifications, Internal and supplier quality audits, Regulatory inspections, Change control, Deviations, CAPA investigation, verification, and closure, Quality supply chain management

• Ability to read and interpret regulations, standards, guidance documents, technical manuals, handbooks, formulations, and product specifications.

• Effectively manage competing priorities and adapt to and manage change with a demonstrated ability to accept additional responsibilities and manage tasks through teamwork.

• Ability to delegate, provide direction to employees, establish overall objectives and available resources, and assure that finished work and methods used are technically accurate and in compliance with established requirements.

• Excellent application, communication, organization, planning, problem-solving, and follow-up skills.

• Must be proficient with PC programs, i.e. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Occasional travel is required.

Application Deadline: 6/27/25

Could our purpose be yours? Then apply today!

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Novonesis is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, or veteran status.

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