Quality Control Manager

Position Summary

The Quality Control Manager leads PATH's Quality Assurance and Food Safety programs, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company standards across manufacturing operations. This role oversees quality systems, laboratory operations, supplier quality, regulatory audits, and continuous improvement while partnering closely with Operations to deliver safe, high-quality products.

How You'll Make an Impact

- Lead PATH's Quality Control and Food Safety programs across all manufacturing operations. - Ensure compliance with FDA, FSMA, GMP, HACCP, and other applicable food safety and quality regulations. - Oversee water quality testing, laboratory operations, sanitation programs, and environmental monitoring. - Develop and maintain product traceability, recall readiness, and quality documentation. - Monitor incoming raw materials, packaging components, production processes, and finished goods to ensure compliance with PATH quality standards. - Lead internal audits, regulatory inspections, customer audits, and third-party certification audits. - Investigate quality issues, customer complaints, and non-conformances using root cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA). - Develop quality metrics and reporting to identify trends and drive continuous improvement. - Supervise, coach, and develop the Quality Control team while providing GMP and food safety training to manufacturing employees. - Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Production, Supply Chain, and Engineering to improve product quality, manufacturing performance, and operational efficiency.

Core Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - 5+ years of quality assurance or quality control experience in food, beverage, or consumer packaged goods manufacturing. - 2+ years of leadership or supervisory experience. - Strong knowledge of FDA regulations, FSMA, GMP, HACCP, and quality management systems. - Experience leading regulatory inspections, customer audits, and third-party certifications. - Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills. - Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Quality Management Systems (QMS) or ERP platforms.

Bonus Qualifications

While not required, these experiences will help you hit the ground running: - Experience in bottled water or beverage manufacturing. - Experience with aluminum packaging or rigid container manufacturing. - PCQI, HACCP, SQF Practitioner, or BRC certifications. - Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives within a manufacturing environment.

About PATH

We’re on a mission to make the future sustainable as the go-to bottled water that helps everyone break the addiction to single-use plastic bottled water. We’re growing this revolution every day, as global consumer demands skyrocket for sustainable and reusable choices in bottled water packaging. Along the way, we’ve received recognitions for our efforts from the SEAL Awards, Inc. 5000 Regionals: California, Inc. 5000 America’s fastest-growing private companies in America.