Quality & Compliance Manager

Company Overview:

Forza is a leading manufacturer of industrial adhesives, tapes & sealants. Creating products & solutions that outperform, we exist to help industrial distributors and manufactures optimize their products, operations or own solutions. This includes producing and creating quality and innovative products, customized solutions tailored to each specific customer and application, and customer support that goes above and beyond.

Formoclean is a subsidiary of Forza, that manufactures safer and better for you cleaning products for consumer and industrial use. We are on a mission to develop and bring to market products that are not only better for you and the environment, but that truly do work.

Fast growing with aggressive goals and targets, we are looking to add to our small but growing team to build a core of integral team members who will help Forza & Formoclean sustain its growth and get to the next level. Today's core team will be tomorrows leaders within in the company.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Quality

Build a quality management system in accordance with the FDA CGMP and ISO 9000:1 Standards

Lead ISO 9000:1 accreditation process

Create a quality manual

Enforce quality system

Investigate and create CAPA when quality issues arise

Build and manage Quality Management portion of NetSuite

Manage compliance and regulatory submissions pertaining to FDA, ISO and EPA

Review each product and ensure correct quality control procedures are in place

Perform quality tests on finished products

Create procedures for quality testing during production where applicable

Ensure quality records are up to date and in compliance

Creation and/or management of SOP's for every process

Generation & Management of COC's & COA's

Review and approve quality requirements for manufactured products, newly sourced raw materials & new products

Develop, document and audit practices and quality manual

Manage Quality system within NetSuite

See quality issues through to completion and take final responsibility for resolution. This would include working with vendors and internal parties

Regulatory & Compliance - Manage site, product and labeling compliance

Develop and oversee control systems to prevent or deal with violations of legal guidelines and internal policies

Draft, modify and implement company policies

Assess the business’s future ventures to identify possible compliance risks

Review the work of colleagues when necessary to identify compliance issues and provide advice or training

Prepare reports for senior management and external regulatory bodies as appropriate

Keep abreast of regulatory developments within or outside of the company as well as evolving best practices in compliance control

Manage compliance with governing bodies such as EPA, FDA, etc

Including but not limited to reporting, monitoring raw material usage and allowances

Manage SDS creation & compliance

Ensure TDS are in compliance

Prepare and review TDS & SDS

Review Labels for compliance with applicable regulations

Requirements:

High school diploma or equivalent

Experience and some knowledge of the purchasing processes involved in manufacturing

Detail and task oriented

Willingness and ability to communicate

Task and deadline oriented

Adaptable to change

Self motivated and self driven

Able to see the big picture. Look long term with a "business owner" mindset

Process driven and/or willing to follow set out process's

Comfortable with change and fast moving environment

Focused on continuous improvement

Able to deal with many moving parts

Ambitious - want to create and build a career

Open to constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement

Team oriented

Ability to learn and operate software (Salesforce CRM & Pardot Marketing Automation are utilized)

Ability to identify what needs to be done and take action to complete it without it being explicitly directed or laid out in a job description or defined duties

Not have to be micromanaged - but comfortable with having many eyes on your work. (small company plus an important role!)

Ability to deal with high pressure situations

Ambitious!

Not looking for a job that is low stakes, low pressure and easily learned or easy to slot into.