Who We Are
We’re Chomps, the fastest-growing food brand in the U.S. and we’re reimagining snacking. Our meat snacks are made using high-quality proteins, no sugar, and real ingredients – because we believe snacking should be simple, delicious, and convenient. Chomps can be found in over 20,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, real food that doesn’t compromise on taste.
Traits of a Chompian
If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.
What You Will Do
We are actively seeking an experienced and motivated individual to join our team as the East Coast regional On-site Quality Assurance Manager. In this role, you will assume a crucial position in upholding the quality and safety standards of Chomps products at our contract manufacturing facility. Your primary responsibilities will include overseeing daily QA operations while fostering a positive relationship with our manufacturing partner, addressing product quality concerns to drive continuous improvement efforts, managing recall and product traceability procedures, leading quality and food safety investigations, and approving all RCA and CAPA reports. Your leadership will be essential in maintaining the high standards defined by Chomps quality assurance team. We are looking for a candidate with exceptional attention to detail, superb organizational abilities, a deep understanding of the meat manufacturing industry, and has the emotional intelligence to thrive in a collaborative fast paced setting. Join us in our commitment to excellence and ensuring the safety and quality of Chomps products for our customers.
Responsibilities
On-location QA Oversight at Manufacturing Facilities:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with third-party QA partners. Promote teamwork and collaboration in quality improvement efforts.
- Lead detailed root cause analyses and corrective actions for quality and food safety issues, ensuring that all reports provided from our contract manufacturing partner are coherent, actionable, and thorough.
- Complete bi-weekly preoperational inspections of raw processing and RTE.
- Oversee the installation of Chomps new packaging lines ensuring successful start-up. Develop and implement parameters for QC packaging checks.
- Conduct traceability audits covering the entire product lifecycle, from raw protein procurement through to customer delivery, and update processes as needed.
- Work closely with Chomps internal QA team to refine recall plans post-drills, identifying and addressing any gaps in traceability systems.
- Work in tandem with our contract manufacturing teams to achieve production goals, ensure compliance with Chomps quality and food safety standards, USDA-FSIS regulations, and internal company policies.
- Complete regular direct observation and verification audits, performing real-time monitoring of key operations—from protein receiving and tempering through raw processing, cooking, aW/pH testing, and RTE packaging—to ensure compliance with quality protocols.
Product Quality Continuous Improvement
- Spearhead product quality investigations with contract manufacturers. Identify possible processing errors and areas of opportunity to improve or correct.
- Analyze sensory evaluation dashboards and reporting – share data with all manufacturers to be reviewed in weekly meetings and offer guidance in process/product improvement initiatives.
- Work with R&D and operations teams in the creation of process control and product specification sheets.
- Be onsite for sample and test runs of new products. Provide real time reports and photos to Chomps operations team.
- Collaborate with internal teams on testing and implementation of protein tempering best practices and creation of SOPs.
Program Improvement, Support, and Team Trainings
- Aide with the development of continuous improvement initiatives for sanitation, environmental monitoring, and thermal processing validations programs.
- Integrate Chomps' quality and food safety standards into contract negotiations, ensuring compliance. Actively integrating these standards into daily operations and program requirements.
- Identify areas of potential risk across all departments and work with contract manufacturing teams to create actionable plans to integrate better systems and programs.
- Educate internal teams on Chomps processes and manufacturing best practices to achieve "gold star" product standards.
Who You Are
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in quality assurance or operations management/supervisor within the meat manufacturing industry.
- In-depth understanding of HACCP, USDA-FSIS regulations.
- Proficiency in raw processing and ready-to-eat meat and poultry production.
- Experience with pre-op inspection, environmental monitoring programs, and GFSI audit requirements.
- Strong knowledge of process flow, risk mitigation, and shelf-life management.
- Expert with CAPA, RCA, and quality management systems.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Self-motivated and autonomous.
- Positive attitude, adaptable to change.
- Ability to travel on an as needed basis up to 50% of the time.
- Bachelor's degree in food science, microbiology, or related field preferred.
Position: Manager, Quality Assurance
Reports to: Director, Quality Assurance
Location: On-site + travel
Type: Full-Time, exempt
Salary Range Opportunity:
- The salary range for this role is $110,000 - $120,000 + 20% annual bonus
Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:
- Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry
- Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company
- In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.
Other Perks:
- Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry.
- Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
- Unlimited PTO and 10 paid holiday days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
- Paid maternity and paternity leave.
- Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
- Company-wide Continual Education budget.
- An abundance of snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).
Our Commitment
Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business.
We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps.
Important Notice:
It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information.If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at careers@chomps.com
