Quality Manager (Food Testing)

Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. On-site, Monday–Friday, 10:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.; additional hours, weekends, and holidays may be required.

Company

hirify.global provides analytical testing and laboratory services across food, environmental, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and other life sciences industries.

What you will do

• Support operational and technical supervision by ensuring timelines, quality measures, and technician activities remain on track.
• Maintain controlled documents, standard operating procedures, local work instructions, training records, and quality system requirements.
• Prepare and evaluate daily process controls for enumeration and pathogen testing against defined acceptance criteria.
• Conduct annual self-audits and coordinate monthly method audits, reports, non-conformance investigations, complaints, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Manage equipment qualification, maintenance, calibration schedules, proficiency testing, and approved quality-critical suppliers.
• Coordinate quality management reviews and laboratory audits, including responses to audit findings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science or a related field, or equivalent directly related experience.
• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship.
• Willingness to work overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Experience or coursework in laboratory procedures, data analysis, computer operations, mathematics, and technical or business writing.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to follow ISO/IEC 17025, AOAC ALACC, government regulatory, health, safety, and environmental requirements.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or Microbiology.
• Experience in a production-style laboratory.
• In-depth experience in an ISO 17025-accredited testing laboratory and QC/QA programs.
• Strong understanding of food microbiology and corrective action investigations.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Paid vacation and holidays.
• Equal employment opportunity workplace with health, safety, and environmental standards.