Quality Assurance Lead

About the Company

The company is a global chemical manufacturer with operations across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, serving a wide range of markets including industrial, consumer, automotive, construction, and packaging. It is known for strong technical expertise, operational excellence, and a commitment to high-quality manufacturing standards.

Quality, safety, and sustainability are central to the organization’s operations, with a strong focus on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), robust Quality Management Systems, and continuous improvement. The company actively invests in responsible manufacturing and circular economy initiatives to support long-term, sustainable growth.

This role is a site-level Quality Assurance leadership position within a large, multi-unit chemical manufacturing facility. The individual in this role will own and maintain the site Quality Management System (QMS) aligned with ISO 9001, with GMP embedded into daily manufacturing operations. The focus is on ensuring ongoing compliance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement across raw material and excipient manufacturing processes that support downstream industries including industrial, personal care, nutrition, and pharmaceutical applications.

The role is highly hands-on and requires regular time in the plant environment, including audits conducted in full PPE. You will act as the primary audit host, leading and facilitating internal, supplier, and external audits, managing auditors on site, and driving corrective and preventive actions through to closure. This position works closely with manufacturing, supply chain, and site leadership to resolve non-conformances, support regulatory compliance, maintain certifications, and promote a strong quality culture.

This is a 100% onsite role based in Port Neches, Texas, with no per diem or relocation support.

You are a manufacturing Quality Assurance professional, not a construction QA, QC, or laboratory specialist. You have built your career inside chemical manufacturing environments, where you have owned or directly supported a living QMS and understand how GMP functions as an operating system, not just a set of guidelines. You bring working knowledge of GMP standards relevant to chemical and excipient manufacturing, with exposure to frameworks such as EXCiPACT, FSSC 22000, or BRCGS, even if you are not formally certified in all of them.

You have led and facilitated audits, both internally and externally, and are comfortable serving as the point person when third-party auditors are assessing your site. You understand how to manage audit findings, drive RCA and CAPA, and maintain compliance across multiple regulatory and customer-driven requirements. You are comfortable in a plant setting, detail-oriented, and confident working cross-functionally to support manufacturing operations, suppliers, and leadership.

Above all, you bring credibility, ownership, and practical experience running quality systems in a chemical manufacturing environment.

Applica offers 401K matching, medical, dental and vision insurances.