Quality Control Manager (Beverage Manufacturing)

Location: Napa, California, United States. Onsite role involving laboratory, warehouse, production, and bottling environments with travel across the site network up to 30%.

Salary: $100,300–$153,600 per year

Company

hirify.global produces and markets beer, wine, and spirits brands, with operations in the United States, Mexico, New Zealand, and Italy.

What you will do

• Lead production quality coverage for bottling, mobile bottling, third-party bottling, and rework operations.
• Direct startup quality activities, validations, in-process checks, inspections, sampling plans, and final product releases.
• Lead root cause investigations, non-conformance reporting, holds, releases, rework plans, and quality KPI reporting.
• Manage supplier qualification, audits, performance monitoring, corrective actions, contract manufacturing relationships, and continuous improvement.
• Support food safety programs, including hazard analysis, risk management, sanitation verification, environmental monitoring, and contamination prevention.
• Lead, coach, and develop quality personnel while managing budgets, capital requests, and resource planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, engineering, business administration, quality assurance, statistics, or a related science field.
• At least 7 years of progressive experience in quality, food safety, laboratory operations, beverage, winery, brewery, distilled spirits, or food manufacturing environments.
• At least 3 years of experience leading quality teams.
• Strong knowledge of quality standards, quality systems, process controls, beverage manufacturing, root cause analysis, CAPA, risk assessment, and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of FDA, FSMA, TTB, OSHA, GMP, HACCP, and applicable food safety standards.
• Ability to work in varied indoor and outdoor environments, handle loads up to 55 pounds, and travel up to 30% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience managing wine production and packaging quality.
• ASQ, CQE, CQM/OE, HACCP, or Six Sigma certification.
• Experience with supplier audits, sensory science, SPC, data analytics, environmental monitoring, or contamination prevention.
• Knowledge of global food safety and export requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on safety, quality, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Benefits include paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a 401(k).
• Work includes collaboration with winemaking, distillation, operations, supply chain, procurement, innovation, regulatory, and commercial teams.
• Reasonable accommodations may be available for individuals with disabilities.