Quality Manager - Dairy

About the role

Meijer is hiring a Quality Manager for its dairy manufacturing operation in Tipp City. Reporting to the Director of Food Safety for Manufacturing, the role leads site food safety and quality programs for high-risk manufacturing, maintains regulatory, customer and certification compliance, and acts as the primary site contact for inspections and audits. It is an onsite position with a Monday-Friday 8am-5pm schedule, on-call as needed and occasional travel.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and improve the site food safety and quality management system, including food safety plans, prerequisite programs, sanitation controls, environmental monitoring, document control and records management.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, customer and third-party requirements and act as the main contact for inspections, audits, corrective actions and follow-up.
• Oversee product and material compliance, including specifications, labeling, packaging verification, process controls, testing, calibration and disposition of nonconforming product.
• Provide technical leadership for critical controls, sanitation and hygienic design, traceability, recall readiness, complaint investigations and continuous improvement.
• Support product launches, process changes, shelf-life and validation activities, and risk-based quality decisions.
• Lead internal audits, root cause analysis, CAPA, KPI reporting, site training and cross-functional collaboration.
• Oversee laboratory or external testing support, microbiological risk management and specialized process controls.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Dairy Science, Microbiology, Biology, Chemistry or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of quality leadership experience in a dairy manufacturing environment; progressive food safety and quality experience in manufacturing, with dairy experience required.
• Experience leading investigations, internal audits, CAPA, complaint management, traceability, recall readiness and risk-based product disposition.
• Experience in UHT, aseptic or ESL processing (a combination of two of three); willingness to consider conventional fluid dairy experience.
• Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional teams, technical communication and data analysis.

Required skills

• HACCP, PCQI and SQF certifications required.
• Pasteurized Milk Ordinance experience.
• Preferred: regulated manufacturing environments, certification programs, laboratory oversight and specialized process controls.

What we offer

• Weekly pay and scheduling flexibility.
• Paid parental leave and paid education assistance.
• Team member discount and development programs for advancement.