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Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance & Quality Control

  • Abbotsford, BC, Canada

Full-time

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8+ years of QA/QC experience in food manufacturing, including 4+ years leading managers or supervisors.
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Original job description

At Vitalus, quality is a promise to every customer and consumer who trusts what we make. As Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance & Quality Control, you'll turn that promise into one consistent, risk-based quality and food safety system across all our manufacturing plants. You'll lead the Plant Quality Managers and QC Supervisor, shape how product gets released, and build a culture where people raise concerns early. The standards and leaders you develop will keep making a difference long after any single audit or release decision.

Is This You?

  • Your deep QA/QC expertise and steady judgment mean you know when to find a practical solution and when you need to hold the line.
  • You develop leaders, listen before you decide, and care more about the team's long-term success than your own recognition.
  • You're ready to move from running one site to setting the standard for all of them.

What You'll Do

Set One Standard

  • Align procedures, specifications, sampling plans and training so the same product meets the same standard at every site.
  • Assign quality resources based on risk, production needs and audit commitments.

Make Release Decisions You Can Defend

  • Run lab operations through the QC Supervisor so every release decision is backed by accurate, scientific data.
  • Use trend analysis and statistical process control to spot drift before product goes out of specification.

Earn Trust Inside and Out

  • Keep every plant audit-ready for CFIA, FSSC 22000 and customer audits.
  • Lead the response to customer quality issues and strengthen supplier controls with Customer Care and Commercial.

Build a Lasting Food Safety Culture

  • Coach and develop independent quality leaders, and build bench strength across sites.
  • Run root-cause analysis and corrective action (CAPA) that fixes problems for good, and bring quality into new products and process changes from the start.

What You'll Bring

  • A degree in Food Science, Dairy Science, Microbiology, Chemistry or a related field.
  • HACCP certification, plus Preventive Control Plan and FSSC 22000 (or equivalent GFSI scheme) training.
  • 8+ years of QA/QC experience in food manufacturing, including 4+ years leading managers or supervisors.
  • Hands-on experience leading audits, managing holds and recalls, and working with the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations and FDA FSMA.
  • Calm under pressure, with the confidence to deliver difficult messages clearly and respectfully.
  • Bonus: experience leading quality across multiple sites or in dairy manufacturing.

Call to Action Ready to build something that lasts and help keep people safe every day? Apply now. We'd love to meet you.

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Responsibilities

Lead quality assurance and quality control across manufacturing plants by standardizing procedures, specifications, sampling, training, laboratory operations, and risk-based resource allocation. Maintain audit readiness, oversee defensible product release decisions and customer issue responses, strengthen supplier controls, and develop quality leaders and lasting food safety practices.

Requirements

Requires a degree in Food Science, Dairy Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, or a related field, along with HACCP certification and Preventive Control Plan and FSSC 22000 or equivalent GFSI training. Candidates need at least eight years of food-manufacturing QA/QC experience, including four years leading managers or supervisors, and hands-on experience with audits, holds, recalls, Canadian food regulations, and FDA FSMA.

Skills

  • Quality Assurance
  • Quality Control
  • Food Safety
  • Multi-Site Quality Management
  • Audit Leadership
  • Product Release Decisions
  • Laboratory Operations
  • Trend Analysis
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Root-Cause Analysis
  • Corrective and Preventive Action
  • Supplier Controls
  • Recall Management
  • Leader Development
  • HACCP
  • FSSC 22000

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Categories

  • Manufacturing
  • Food & Beverage
  • Management & Leadership
  • Security & Safety
  • Science & Research

Keywords

  • Quality Assurance
  • Quality Control
  • Food Manufacturing
  • Dairy
  • Food Safety
  • HACCP
  • Preventive Control Plan
  • FSSC 22000
  • GFSI
  • CFIA
  • Safe Food for Canadians Regulations
  • FDA FSMA
  • Audits
  • Product Release
  • Laboratory Operations
  • Sampling Plans
  • Specifications
  • Trend Analysis
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Customer Quality Issues
  • Supplier Controls
  • Root-Cause Analysis
  • Corrective and Preventive Action
  • CAPA
  • Holds and Recalls
  • Risk-Based Quality Systems
  • New Product Quality
  • Process Changes

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