Vice President, Quality Assurance - Laboratories

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A Day in the Life As a quality leader with deep expertise in accredited laboratory operations, regulatory compliance, and enterprise quality systems, you bring a passion for building preventive, risk-based quality programs that identify and address issues before they affect data quality, accreditation status, or client outcomes. As the Vice President, Quality Assurance , you’ll provide enterprise-wide leadership for the design, governance, implementation, and continual improvement of quality systems supporting a network of environmental, chemical, and defense testing laboratories.

The Vice President, Quality Assurance serves as the organization's senior quality authority and is accountable for ensuring all laboratory quality programs meet and exceed requirements established by TNI/NELAC, DoD ELAP, ISO/IEC 17025, regulatory agencies, and client-specific quality standards.

This role carries overarching responsibility for establishing a harmonized, defensible, and audit-ready Quality Management System across all laboratories. The successful candidate will provide strategic leadership, regulatory expertise, and executive oversight to build a highly proactive quality organization focused on identifying systemic risks, eliminating recurring issues, strengthening laboratory performance, and ensuring scientific integrity, accreditation compliance, and operational excellence across the enterprise.

The compensation range for this role is $,000 total compensation, commensurate with experience, skills, and geographic location.

To thrive in this role, you’ll be comfortable taking ownership of the following responsibilities:

Ownership of Enterprise Quality Management Systems:
Lead the enterprise quality management system by driving quality strategy, governance, and standardized implementation across all accredited laboratories. Champion a culture of quality that ensures compliance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement throughout the laboratory network.

Regulatory and Accreditation Strategy:
Lead compliance with accreditation, regulatory, and client-specific quality requirements while ensuring readiness for evolving standards.

Independence and Data Integrity:
Ensure laboratory independence, data integrity, and ethical conduct standards across the organization. Safeguard the validity and defensibility of scientific data while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements.

Audit Leadership and Oversight:
Lead audit and inspection programs, including internal, client, accreditation, regulatory, DoD and DOE assessments. Ensure audit readiness through disciplined self-assessment programs, root cause analysis, performance monitoring, and sustainable CAPA processes.

Lead Corrective Action and

Risk Management:

Lead CAPA, risk management, and continuous improvement programs designed to identify systemic vulnerabilities, leverage quality data and trend analysis, and proactively address issues before they result in non-conformances, customer impact, or accreditation risk. Establish a culture of root-cause elimination rather than symptom correction.

Harmonization and Standardization:
Drive harmonization and standardization of quality processes, audit practices, quality metrics, and documentation across laboratories to reduce variability, improve operational consistency, and strengthen enterprise-wide quality performance.

Technical Guidance to Leadership:
Provide technical leadership across…