Quality Manager

Quality Manager

Join our Madison WI team as a fulltime onsite Quality Manager and help elevate our manufacturing operations. Were looking for a handson leader who excels in regulated fastmoving environments and is passionate about building strong quality systems guiding teams and ensuring outstanding customer outcomes. If youre skilled in audits CAPA management and crossfunctional problemsolving this role offers a chance to make a real impact and advance your career.

Compensation

• Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

Work Schedule

• Full-time onsite: 8 AM 5 PM Monday - Friday

Why Placon Youll Love It Here

• A leadership role where your quality compliance and problemsolving skills truly matter
• Opportunities to influence sitewide quality strategy systems and continuous improvement
• A supportive manufacturing environment with strong crossfunctional collaboration
• Competitive pay great benefits and a stable onsite MondayFriday schedule
• A culture focused on safety quality and operational excellence

What Youll Do

• Lead the Quality Team across Madison locations providing oversight resource allocation workload management morale support and crossfunctional leadership collaboration to drive highperformance quality operations.
• Own all customer quality complaints endtoend including customer/sales communication root cause analysis with Engineering Production Tooling and Marketing and implementation of corrective/preventive actions (CAPAs).
• Manage the site CAPA program ensuring timely resolution documentation effectiveness verification and continuous improvement.
• Direct external audits and maintain compliance with SQF ISO 9001 and customerspecific standards; lead the internal audit program to strengthen quality systems.
• Administer the Pest Control program with vendor oversight.
• Lead Regulatory Affairs ensuring compliant uptodate documentation aligned with food medical custom and retail requirements.
• Assist in QMS software implementation migrating from Excel/filebased systems to a controlled digital platform to enhance data integrity traceability and efficiency.
• Oversee New Product Development (NPD) Quality/Validation studies to support successful product launches.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on presentations datadriven recommendations and strategic decisions impacting quality compliance and operations.
• Manage the Site Quality budget identifying efficiencies cost reductions and resource optimization opportunities.
• Oversee the HACCP program ensuring robust food safety risk management and compliance.

What You Bring

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Quality or STEMrelated discipline
• 3 years of leadership experience within a regulated industry
• Strong communication skills and a customerfocused mindset
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently
• Experience with SQF ISO HACCP or regulated manufacturing environments preferred
• Knowledge of quality systems audits CAPA and controlled documentation
• Strong problemsolving multitasking and analytical skills
• Ability to use standard office software ERP systems and QMS tools
• Ability to work in office lab and manufacturing environments
• Minimal travel (less than 5%) to customers vendors and audits
• Bi-lingual in Spanish is preferred
• Highly valued experience includes HACCP Lead responsibilities SQF and ISO system management and Food Defense Manager certification.

Does this sound like you

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Placon employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment drug test basic physical background check educational verification and reference checks (as applicable).

Placon requires that employees have and maintain authorization to work in the country in which the role is general Placon does not sponsor candidates for non-immigrant visas or permanent residency unless based on business need.

Placon is committed to equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or expression marital status age national origin disability veteran status genetic information or other protected characteristics.

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