QA Lead: Food Quality & Compliance Champion

Red River Commodities, Inc.; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-demand pay through Tapcheck

Paid time off

Paid Holidays

401k & company match

Profit Sharing

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Red River Commodities, Inc. in Fargo, ND is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead to coordinate daily quality activities, ensure regulatory compliance, and guide quality and production staff.

The role emphasizes inspection, testing, records maintenance, and driving continuous improvement within a food-manufacturing setting. The position requires hands-on leadership, strong knowledge of GMP/HACCP, and a commitment to food-safety standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in quality assurance or quality control preferred, ideally within food manufacturing or a related production environment.
• Strong understanding of food-safety regulations, GMP, HACCP, and quality-assurance principles.
• Experience providing daily work direction, training, or peer leadership preferred.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical ability, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organization and documentation skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively with Quality, Production, and Operations employees.
• Basic computer skills and ability to learn quality-record, testing, and reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day work direction and technical guidance to quality employees as assigned.
• Coordinate inspection, sampling, testing, documentation, and production-support priorities for the shift or work area.
• Monitor completion and accuracy of assigned quality activities and communicate issues to Quality leadership.
• Serve as a point of contact for routine production quality questions and elevate significant concerns promptly.
• Conduct and support inspections of raw materials, in-process products, and finished goods.
• Monitor production processes and equipment for deviations from standard operating procedures and quality requirements.
• Perform or verify quality testing that may include moisture content, purity, and foreign-material detection.
• Review test results and quality data to identify trends, deviations, or potential risks.
• Maintain and review complete records of inspections, tests, quality-control measures, reports, and logs.
• Prepare and review quality documentation, including certificates of analysis and quality reports.
• Verify that documentation is accurate, timely, legible, and compliant with established procedures.
• Communicate quality results, deviations, open actions, and documentation concerns to Quality leadership and Operations.
• Support compliance with GMP, HACCP, company policies, food-safety requirements, and applicable regulations.
• Participate in internal audits, inspections, traceability exercises, and other quality-verification activities.
• Lead investigation, documentation, follow-up, and closure of assigned corrective and preventive actions
• Reinforce safety, sanitation, personal protective equipment, and food-safety expectations during daily work.
• Identify and investigate quality concerns with Production and Quality employees.
• Support root-cause analysis, containment, corrective action, and prevention of recurrence.
• Coordinate cross-functional corrective actions with Production, Maintenance, Sanitation and Operations to ensure timely completion and effectiveness verification.
• Recommend practical improvements that strengthen product quality and operational efficiency.
• Provide training and guidance to quality and production employees on standards, inspection methods, documentation, and best practices.
• Support onboarding and skill development for quality employees as assigned.
• Provide timely coaching when procedures or documentation requirements are not followed.
• Support a collaborative culture focused on quality, food safety, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate collection, identification, retention, preparation, and disposition of samples according to procedure.
• Maintain testing and inspection equipment in clean, organized, and working condition.
• Monitor calibration status and report equipment concerns or supply needs that could affect quality activities.

Skills

Quality assurance

Food safety

GMP

HACCP

Leadership

Documentation

Communication

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Multi-priority management

Job description

Red River Commodities, Inc. in Fargo, ND is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead to coordinate daily quality activities, ensure regulatory compliance, and guide quality and production staff.

The role emphasizes inspection, testing, records maintenance, and driving continuous improvement within a food-manufacturing setting. The position requires hands-on leadership, strong knowledge of GMP/HACCP, and a commitment to food-safety standards.