Quality Manager

Company Overview: Growve is a leading health and wellness company specializing in acquiring, operating, and growing world-class brands within the active nutrition, dietary supplement, and beauty verticals. Our portfolio includes 15 brands and thousands of unique products.

Position Title: Quality Manager

Position Overview: Reporting to the VP of Quality, the Quality Manager will assist in developing the Quality strategy and lead all day-to-day activities for our Sunwarrior team. This role will utilize personal experience and expertise in the areas of food safety, food quality, and good manufacturing and sanitation practices to provide strategic leadership and tactical support to all departments, ensuring Growve products are produced with the utmost quality.

The QA/QC Managers primary responsibility is to assist with growing the capabilities of the QA/QC department, with a focus on dietary supplements, beadlets, powder blending and encapsulation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing activities related to safety, consistency, and quality of dietary supplement and nutritional manufactured products.
• Responsible for Quality Assurance and Regulatory personnel and processes.
• Maintain quality systems and improve programs to ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements for dietary supplements and nutritional products (cGMP, GDP, 21 CFR 111, HACCP, FSMA, SQF, NSF, GFCO, TGA, etc).
• Lead internal and external audit processes (regulatory, certification, and customer).
• Escalate quality and food safety issues and presents plausible solutions.
• Conduct training for team members and other departments as necessary and appropriate.
• Oversee formal raw material Supplier Qualification process.
• Oversee raw material sampling, label control, and retention processes.
• Oversee review and approval of documentation (production records, specifications, change orders, etc), including finished product release approval.
• Organize and ensure completion of non-conformances, complaints, investigations, Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA).
• Understand and ensure compliance to relevant regulatory requirements (FDA, NSF, TGA, Health Canada, etc.).
• Assist with enforcement of the cGMP policy, food safety and defense plans, personal hygiene policy, etc.
• Manage established quality systems as defined by standard operating procedures.
• Perform annual reviews with employees as required.
• Address personnel issues as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Knowledge of HACCP principles include verification and validation activities.
• Assist manufacturing and quality teams and provide them with necessary services to ensure the highest quality products.
• Follow procedures to ensure production of quality products, as well as cost effective reductions.
• Meet all safety expectations including wearing the required personnel protective equipment, cGMP gowning garb and follow all safe practices.
• Cross training will occur throughout the facility in all aspects of high-speed manufacturing.
• Work with production and give technical support to assist with manufacturing our products following all production standard procedures (kitting, mixing/blending, beadlet manufacturing, encapsulating, packaging, boxing, and labeling of the product).
• Prepare and maintain materials and equipment at the start, during, and end of production.

Key Competencies:

• Operate with sense of urgency, ensuring departmental tasks completed efficiently and effectively.
• Proactive - look for opportunities to contribute, anticipate business needs and discuss ideas with management.
• Excellent analytical skills, help develop, measure, and report KPIs. Ensure accuracy of team contributions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Team oriented and ability to work effectively with diverse population.
• Operate with integrity in all situations. Values open communication.
• Open minded, willing to consider other perspectives that may be different.
• Excellent communication skills, written & oral.
• Microsoft computer skills include Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Must possess a high level of initiative and dependability.

This role will ensure production schedule, standards, quality, sanitation, and safety, are key elements to their day-to-day responsibilities. Working with fellow team members, learning, and understanding quality, production and sanitation principles to optimize production flow and efficiency will be key. This role will follow operational activities with the help of other personnel at all levels that lead to outstanding operational performance.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years in the Quality Manufacturing industry, preferably for a Dietary Supplement manufacturing.
• Other required knowledge, skills & abilities: Label Review, Formulation, HACCP, Food Defense, Root Cause Analysis knowledge preferred.
• Must possess good interpersonal and strong communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Effective organizational, prioritization, and time management.
• Must have excellent attention to detail.
• Must always possess a safe attitude.
• Be reliable, motivated, organized and be able to work in a dynamic fast-paced team-driven environment.
• Have a commitment to Safety, Quality and Productivity.
• Self-motivated and ability to take initiative and use sound judgment in day-to-day decision making.
• Punctual and reliable in work attendance.
• Working Conditions: Loud environment with exposure to powder and heavy equipment in a manufacturing atmosphere.
• Ability to read and write legibly in English/Spanish.
• Ability to learn various work processes.
• Ability to work flexible hours and be willing to adapt to changes in orders and tasks. Weekend work may be necessary on occasion.
• Able to handle the typical stress of meeting deadlines and achieving improved results.
• Ability to read, interpret and effectively communicate necessary policies and procedures to others.

Education and experience:

• Bachelors degree in food science, Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, Nutrition, Exercise Science, or an applicable scientific discipline.
• 1-2 years Quality experience or more with nutritional supplements, dietary ingredients, food, or equivalent experience as it pertains to this role.

Additional Details:

• Full Time with Competitive Pay
• Health Benefits Package
• PTO
• 401(k)
• Progressive company environment
• Corporate offices located in Florida | Utah | Tennessee
• Onsite position located in Washington, UT

Notice to Recruiters - We do not work with outside recruiting agencies. Please do not solicit. This description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications. The position, duties, and qualifications are subject to change at any time.