Quality Manager

Washington, UT 84780 Quality Manager

Growve is a leading health and wellness company specializing in acquiring, operating, and growing world-class brands within the active nutrition, dietary supplement, and beauty verticals. Our portfolio includes 15 brands and thousands of unique products.

Reporting to the VP of Quality, the Quality Manager will assist in developing the Quality strategy and lead all day-to-day activities for our Sunwarrior team. This role will utilize personal experience and expertise in the areas of food safety, food quality, and good manufacturing and sanitation practices to provide strategic leadership and tactical support to all departments, ensuring Growve products are produced with the utmost quality.

The QA/QC Manager’s primary responsibility is to assist with growing the capabilities of the QA/QC department, with a focus on dietary supplements, beadlets, powder blending and encapsulation.

• Responsible for overseeing activities related to safety, consistency, and quality of dietary supplement and nutritional manufactured products.
• Responsible for Quality Assurance and Regulatory personnel and processes.
• Maintain quality systems and improve programs to ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements for dietary supplements and nutritional products (cGMP, GDP, 21 CFR 111, HACCP, FSMA, SQF, NSF, GFCO, TGA, etc).
• Lead internal and external audit processes (regulatory, certification, and customer).
• Escalate quality and food safety issues and presents plausible solutions.
• Conduct training for team members and other departments as necessary and appropriate.
• Oversee formal raw material Supplier Qualification process.
• Oversee raw material sampling, label control, and retention processes.
• Oversee review and approval of documentation (production records, specifications, change orders, etc), including finished product release approval.
• Organize and ensure completion of non-conformances, complaints, investigations, Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA).
• Understand and ensure compliance to relevant regulatory requirements (FDA, NSF, TGA, Health Canada, etc.).
• Assist with enforcement of the cGMP policy, food safety and defense plans, personal hygiene policy, etc.
• Manage established quality systems as defined by standard operating procedures.
• Perform annual reviews with employees as required.
• Address personnel issues as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Knowledge of HACCP principles include verification and validation activities.
• Assist manufacturing and quality teams and provide them with necessary services to ensure the highest quality products.
• Follow procedures to ensure production of quality products, as well as cost effective reductions.
• Meet all safety expectations including wearing the required personnel protective equipment, cGMP gowning garb and follow all safe practices.
• Cross training will occur throughout the facility in all aspects of high-speed manufacturing.
• Work with production and give technical support to assist with manufacturing our products following all production standard procedures (kitting, mixing/blending, beadlet manufacturing, encapsulating, packaging, boxing, and labeling of the product).
• Prepare and maintain materials and equipment at the start, during, and end of production.

• Operate with sense of urgency, ensuring departmental tasks completed efficiently and effectively.
• Proactive - look for opportunities to contribute, anticipate business needs and discuss ideas with management.
• Excellent analytical skills, help develop, measure, and report KPI’s. Ensure accuracy of team contributions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Team oriented and ability to work effectively with diverse population.
• Operate with integrity in all situations. Values open communication.
• Open minded, willing to consider other perspectives that may be different.
• Excellent communication skills, written & oral.
• Microsoft computer skills include Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Must possess a high level of initiative and dependability.

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