Quality and Food Safety Manager - Shared

Job Overview

The Lauridsen Group, Inc. (LGI) is a collection of six independent companies dedicated to discovering and producing products to enhance health and nutrition. This shared services role supports corporate quality and food safety programs across LGI's North American manufacturing locations, partnering with plant quality, manufacturing, sales, customer service, regulatory, and corporate teams to strengthen quality systems, ensure compliance, lead audit and CAPA processes, and promote continuous improvement.

• Corporate Quality & Food Safety Program Leadership Guide implementation and compliance with corporate quality and food safety requirements, including SOPs, SSOPs, formulas, FSMA requirements, recall procedures, HACCP programs, and Food Safety Plans. Support consistent application of quality and food safety expectations across North American manufacturing locations. Monitor industry, customer, and regulatory developments and recommend enhancements to quality and food safety programs.
  
  Provide technical guidance related to food safety, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.
• Audits, Certifications & Compliance Readiness Collaborate with manufacturing teams to implement quality and food safety requirements for third‑party certification programs, including SQF, Safe Feed/Safe Food, and similar standards. Perform corporate internal audits of manufacturing facilities and partner with sites to address and close audit findings. Serve as a corporate representative during customer and regulatory audits. Support audit readiness efforts and ensure timely follow‑up on corrective action requests.
• CAPA, Corrective Action & Continuous Improvement Oversee the Corporate Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) program. Support resolution of audit findings, customer complaints, and nonconforming material issues. Facilitate meetings focused on process improvement, quality system effectiveness, and food safety performance. Partner with sites to identify opportunities that improve product quality, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
• Site Partnership, Food Safety Culture & Subject‑Matter Expertise Collaborate with manufacturing sites to strengthen food safety culture and quality performance. Provide subject‑matter expertise to plant quality and manufacturing teams regarding food safety, quality systems, and regulatory requirements. Influence, coach, and train employees on quality, food safety, and compliance expectations. Build strong partnerships that support consistent execution of quality and food safety standards across locations.
• Cross‑Functional Support & Business Partnership Partner with customers, suppliers, sales, customer service, and internal stakeholders to resolve quality and food safety concerns. Prepare and facilitate management review meetings for LGI businesses. Manage and support projects that advance corporate quality and food safety objectives. Provide support to the Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs team as business needs require.

Supports quality assurance and quality control teams across LGI's North American manufacturing locations. Provides corporate leadership and subject‑matter expertise in quality systems, food safety programs, audit readiness, and CAPA management. Influences quality and food safety performance across manufacturing, quality, sales, customer service, regulatory, and corporate functions. Supports customer, regulatory, and third‑party certification audits. Requires up to 45% travel.

• Quality & Food Safety Expertise – Applies technical knowledge of food safety, quality systems, microbiology, chemistry, FSMA, HACCP, and regulatory requirements.
• Audit & Compliance Management – Supports audit readiness and compliance across internal, customer, regulatory, and third‑party certification programs.
• Problem Solving & CAPA Management – Identifies root causes and drives effective corrective and preventive actions.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration – Builds productive relationships across manufacturing, quality, regulatory, commercial, and corporate teams.
• Communication & Influence – Clearly communicates technical…