Senior Manager, Preventative Quality & Co-Manufacturing

Ryze Superfoods LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ryze Superfoods LLC is seeking a Sr Manager of Technical Quality to bridge Operations and Quality in a hybrid role. You will partner with R&D, co-manufacturers, and internal ops to establish preventative controls before production starts, ensuring line readiness and repeatable quality.

You will build the preventative quality system, oversee co-manufacturer technical relations, and lead process engineering for powders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or technical quality in food, beverage, nutraceutical, or dry-powder processing.
• Proven track record managing co-manufacturing relationships technically — not just auditing them.
• Hands-on experience building quality or process systems from scratch in a high-growth, resource-constrained environment.
• Mastery of SPC, DOE, FMEA, capability studies, and process validation.
• Strong mechanical and process intuition — you can explain what’s happening inside a blender or auger without guessing.
• Ability to travel ~30% to co-man sites.

Responsibilities

• Build Ryze’s Preventative Quality System with upstream guardrails and pre-production readiness checklists.
• Lead technical due diligence and onboarding for new co-man partners.
• Analyze and optimize co-man processes for blending, conveying, filling, and packaging of powders.
• Support buildout of internal lab and sensory program and establish testing protocols.
• Conduct manufacturability assessments for new formulas, packaging formats, and BOM changes.
• Partner with Supply Chain and QA/regulatory to elevate technical capabilities and drive cost optimizations.

Skills

Quality leadership

Co-manufacturing management

SPC

DOE

FMEA

Process validation

Root-cause analysis

Travel readiness

Tools

CAPA management

Job description

Ryze Superfoods LLC is seeking a Sr Manager of Technical Quality to bridge Operations and Quality in a hybrid role. You will partner with R&D, co-manufacturers, and internal ops to establish preventative controls before production starts, ensuring line readiness and repeatable quality.

You will build the preventative quality system, oversee co-manufacturer technical relations, and lead process engineering for powders.