Facility Quality Assurance Manager

Grüns; Roanoke (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Health benefits

Family coverage 75%

Job summary

Grüns is seeking a Facility Quality Assurance Leader to own and maintain the QMS, ensuring food safety and regulatory compliance across the plant. You will act as SQF Practitioner and drive continuous improvement in quality programs in Roanoke, TX.

You will oversee audits, HACCP, CCP verification, corrective actions, and training across QA, ensuring traceability and product safety. The role requires strong leadership and bilingual English/Spanish communication.

Qualifications

• FDA 21 CFR Part 111 knowledge and cGMP familiarity.
• SQF Practitioner experience and system maintenance.
• HACCP program knowledge including CCP monitoring.
• Experience with a facility Quality Management System and audits.
• Food safety and quality activities across packaging, labeling, receiving, and finishing.
• Experience supporting regulatory, customer, and internal audits.
• Bilingual English/Spanish required for cross-language communication.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the facility QMS for food safety and quality programs.
• Serve as SQF Practitioner and lead verification and corrective actions.
• Lead Management Reviews, KPIs, CAPAs, and audits for improvement.
• Oversee HACCP program, CCP verification, and records.
• Supervise QA operations, inspections, and acceptance criteria.
• Review and approve MMRs, batch records, and product disposition.
• Manage disposition of nonconforming materials and investigations.
• Verify sanitation, environmental monitoring, and audit readiness.
• Coordinate traceability exercises and mock recalls.
• Provide QA training and promote a strong food safety culture.

Skills

QMS ownership

SQF Practitioner

HACCP

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Bilingual English/Spanish

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 7+ years experience

SQF/HACCP certifications

Tools

QMS software

Job description

We're so happy you're here! Thank you for checking our job out and we hope to have the chance to meet you in our interview process!

About the role

Provides overall leadership, ownership, and direction for the Facility Quality Management System (QMS) supporting product quality, food safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. Ensures facility compliance with applicable regulatory, customer, and certification requirements, including FDA 21 CFR requirements, GMPs, HACCP, SQF/GFSI requirements, and internal company standards. Serves as the facility SQF Practitioner and oversees implementation, maintenance, verification, and continuous improvement of food safety and quality programs. Oversees the Quality Assurance Department and promotes a strong food safety culture and accountability throughout facility operations.

• This role is onsite at our Roanoke, Texas location
• Compensation Range: $100,000-$110,000
• PTO: This role offers paid vacation & sick days
• Benefits: Coverage for you as well as your family, company pays 75%

In this role, you will:

• Owns and maintains the facility Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring food safety and quality programs are effectively implemented, maintained, verified, and continuously improved in accordance with applicable FDA 21 CFR requirements, SQF/GFSI requirements, customer requirements, and company standards.
• Serves as the facility SQF Practitioner and maintains the SQF System, including verification activities, program implementation, corrective actions, and continued compliance with certification requirements.
• Leads and participates in Management Review, including evaluation of quality and food safety objectives, KPIs, non-conformances, complaints, audit results, CAPAs, verification activities, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Owns and maintains the facility HACCP Program, ensuring hazard analyses, monitoring, verification, validation, corrective actions, and required records remain current and effective. Ensures CCP verification activities are completed and documented as required.
• Oversees facility QA operational controls, including receiving inspections, packaging and label verification, in-process quality checks, and finished product inspections, ensuring products and materials meet approved specifications and established acceptance criteria.
• Reviews and approves Master Manufacturing Records (MMRs), Packaging Batch Records, and completed batch production records, as applicable, to ensure accuracy,completeness, traceability, reconciliation/yield requirements, and compliance with approved procedures and applicable 21 CFR requirements prior to product disposition.
• Oversees the control, investigation, and disposition of nonconforming materials, ingredients, packaging components, work-in-process, and finished products, including holds, deviations, investigations, CAPAs, and corrective action requests.
• Verifies sanitation effectiveness through review of sanitation records, pre-operational inspections, ATP/environmental monitoring results, and other applicable verification activities; ensuring identified deficiencies are appropriately corrected and documented.
• Leads and supports SQF/GFSI, FDA/21 CFR, customer, certification, and internal audits, including audit preparation, document readiness, execution, response to findings, corrective actions, and verification of effectiveness.
• Maintains audit and regulatory readiness by ensuring food safety and quality procedures, programs, records, and supporting documentation are current, controlled, complete, accurate, and readily retrievable.
• Reviews food safety and quality records for accuracy, completeness, compliance, and appropriate documentation, ensuring discrepancies are investigated and resolved when required.
• Leads and coordinates traceability exercises and mock recalls, evaluates results against established requirements, documents outcomes, and ensures corrective actions are implemented when deficiencies are identified.
• Reviews new products, processes, specifications, and applicable documentation to ensure food safety, quality, regulatory and customer requirements are appropriately established and implemented.
• Manages the facility Food Safety and Quality Training Program, including development, implementation, and maintenance of food safety and quality learning plans and the facility training matrix. Ensures required training is assigned based on job responsibilities, completed within established timelines, appropriately documented, and maintained current. Coordinates initial, refresher, and retraining activities and verifies employee competency, as applicable.
• Provides training, coaching, and development to QA personnel and supports the qualification and continued competency of HACCP Team members, Internal Audit Team members, and other personnel with assigned food safety and quality responsibilities.
• Promotes and supports a strong Food Safety Culture through leadership, employee engagement, training, communication, accountability, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Monitors applicable FDA regulations, SQF/GFSI requirements, and other regulatory or certification changes and ensures relevant facility programs, procedures, and practices are updated as necessary.
• Provides Quality and Food Safety performance metrics, trends, significant issues, and improvement opportunities to facility and Quality leadership and escalates issues that may impact product safety, quality, compliance, or release.

Basic Qualifications:

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with FDA regulations applicable to food and dietary supplement operations, including 21 CFR Part 111 and applicable Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs).
• SQF Practitioner experience required, with demonstrated knowledge of SQF/GFSI requirements and implementation and maintenance of an SQF System.
• Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience with HACCP programs, including CCP monitoring and verification.
• Experience managing or supporting a facility Quality Management System (QMS), including document control, records review, CAPA, internal audits, management review, traceability, and mock recalls.
• Experience with food safety and quality activities within packaging, labeling, receiving, in-process operations, sanitation verification and finished product inspection.
• Experience supporting and/or leading regulatory, customer, GFSI/SQF, and internal audits.
• Dietary supplement manufacturing, packaging, or distribution experience.
• Bilingual English/Spanish required, with the ability to communicate effectively in both languages with employees at all levels of the organization.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years related experience or equivalent combination of education and technical work experience.
• Preferred/Required Certifications: HACCP training/certification, 21 CFR training/certification and SQF Practitioner qualification or demonstrated experience

A bit about us...

At Grüns, we believe that foundational nutrition should be simple and convenient for everyone. We're dedicated to bringing comprehensive and real nutrition to you through our gummies, formulated from 60 nutrient-dense and whole-food ingredients. Simply enjoy a grab-and-go snack pack of gummies daily whenever fits best in your schedule and wherever life takes you.

Like you, we were disappointed. There’s an infinite number of “nutrition” companies, all focused on what’s best for them — not what’s best for you. Hundreds of products to sell you on, low-quality ingredients, and small nutrient doses. We’ve seen it all.

So we decided it was time to fix it. No more choking on and popping pills like a pharmacy. No more clean-up and disgust from gross powders. And no more cobbling together handfuls to dozens of supplements. Grüns is comprehensive nutrition, made convenient and delicious.

What we care about...

Be the Best: We hold ourselves, our teams, and our partners to an incredibly high standard - and we raise the bar constantly. "We've never done this before" isn't an excuse here. It's an invitation.

Own It: We act like our name is on the door. That means taking complete ownership of outcomes, collaborating deeply, working through roadblocks - not around them - and never waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Great owners are great partners.

Drive Impact, Urgently: We measure impact, not effort. We work smart and hard, move fast, and use every tool at our disposal - including AI - to focus our energy where it matters most.

Compensation & Perks:

For every role, we aim to have highly competitive compensation and opportunity for impact and career growth.

Everyone at Grüns works hard, but we believe in wellness and balance too. We have super strong benefits coverage -- for you and your family, generous PTO, free Grüns, and a few more perks centered around health and well-being that we can't wait to tell you about!