QMS Manager
Symbotic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $108,000 - $148,500 per year
About the role
- Own and continuously improve the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) across all sites, ensuring consistent, scalable, and audit-ready processes
- Lead food safety and quality compliance programs, including SQF, GMP, QAI Organic, and related regulatory and customer requirements
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all quality and compliance matters, including regulatory inspections, customer audits, and third-party certification bodies
- Plan, execute, and oversee internal audit programs, ensuring timely closure of findings through disciplined CAPA management
- Drive certification readiness and successful outcomes for external audits, assessments, and renewals across the network
- Develop, maintain, and control QMS documentation in alignment with regulatory and certification standards (e.g. SQF, ISO)
- Establish and track quality performance metrics, creating dashboards and reporting that provide visibility to trends, risks, and improvement opportunities
- Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, Safety, and Startup to embed quality requirements into processes, systems, and site launches
- Identify quality risks proactively and lead corrective and preventive actions to reduce non-conformances and improve operational consistency
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in food science, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field
- Minimum 8 years of experience in quality, food safety, or compliance roles within warehouse, logistics, or distribution environments
- Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining food safety and quality systems such as SQF, GMP, QAI Organic, etc.
- Direct experience supporting and leading external audits and inspections, including serving as a primary point of contact
- Strong working knowledge of QMS fundamentals, including document control, internal audits, CAPA management, and certification readiness
- Ability to work cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, Safety, and Startup teams to embed quality requirements into daily operations
- Experience supporting multi-site or network-level quality programs (preferred)
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 or ISO-aligned quality management systems (preferred)
- Relevant certifications such as SQF Practitioner, PCQI, HACCP, or ISO Lead Auditor (preferred)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental
- Vision
- Disability
- 401K
- PTO
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Quality Management System (QMS)food safetycompliance programsSQFGMPQAI OrganicCAPA managementinternal auditsdocument controlquality performance metrics
Soft Skills
leadershipcross-functional collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingrisk identificationorganizational skillsanalytical skillsattention to detailproactive approachteamwork
Certifications
SQF PractitionerPCQIHACCPISO Lead Auditor