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# Facility Quality Assurance Manager at Grüns

- **Company:** Grüns
- **Location:** Roanoke, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gruns/jobs/5442387008

## Job description

We're so happy you're here! Thank you for checking our job out and we hope to have the chance to meet you in our interview process!

## About the role

Provides overall leadership, ownership, and direction for the Facility Quality Management System (QMS) supporting product quality, food safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. Ensures facility compliance with applicable regulatory, customer, and certification requirements, including FDA 21 CFR requirements, GMPs, HACCP, SQF/GFSI requirements, and internal company standards. Serves as the facility SQF Practitioner and oversees implementation, maintenance, verification, and continuous improvement of food safety and quality programs. Oversees the Quality Assurance Department and promotes a strong food safety culture and accountability throughout facility operations.

- This role is onsite at our Roanoke, Texas location
- Compensation Range: $100,000-$110,000
- PTO: This role offers paid vacation & sick days
- Benefits: Coverage for you as well as your family, company pays 75%

In this role, you will:

- Owns and maintains the facility Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring food safety and quality programs are effectively implemented, maintained, verified, and continuously improved in accordance with applicable FDA 21 CFR requirements, SQF/GFSI requirements, customer requirements, and company standards.
- Serves as the facility SQF Practitioner and maintains the SQF System, including verification activities, program implementation, corrective actions, and continued compliance with certification requirements.
- Leads and participates in Management Review, including evaluation of quality and food safety objectives, KPIs, non-conformances, complaints, audit results, CAPAs, verification activities, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Owns and maintains the facility HACCP Program, ensuring hazard analyses, monitoring, verification, validation, corrective actions, and required records remain current and effective. Ensures CCP verification activities are completed and documented as required.
- Oversees facility QA operational controls, including receiving inspections, packaging and label verification, in-process quality checks, and finished product inspections, ensuring products and materials meet approved specifications and established acceptance criteria.
- Reviews and approves Master Manufacturing Records (MMRs), Packaging Batch Records, and completed batch production records, as applicable, to ensure accuracy,completeness, traceability, reconciliation/yield requirements, and compliance with approved procedures and applicable 21 CFR requirements prior to product disposition.
- Oversees the control, investigation, and disposition of nonconforming materials, ingredients, packaging components, work-in-process, and finished products, including holds, deviations, investigations, CAPAs, and corrective action requests.
- Verifies sanitation effectiveness through review of sanitation records, pre-operational inspections, ATP/environmental monitoring results, and other applicable verification activities; ensures identified deficiencies are appropriately corrected and documented.
- Leads and supports SQF/GFSI, FDA/21 CFR, customer, certification, and internal audits, including audit preparation, document readiness, execution, response to findings, corrective actions, and verification of effectiveness.
- Maintains audit and regulatory readiness by ensuring food safety and quality procedures, programs, records, and supporting documentation are current, controlled, complete, accurate, and readily retrievable.
- Reviews food safety and quality records for accuracy, completeness, compliance, and appropriate documentation, ensuring discrepancies are investigated and resolved when required.
- Leads and coordinates traceability exercises and mock recalls, evaluates results against established requirements, documents outcomes, and ensures corrective actions are implemented when deficiencies are identified.
- Reviews new products, processes, specifications, and applicable documentation to ensure food safety, quality, regulatory, and customer requirements are appropriately established and implemented.
- Manages the facility Food Safety and Quality Training Program, including development, implementation, and maintenance of food safety and quality learning plans and the facility training matrix. Ensures required training is assigned based on job responsibilities, completed within established timelines, appropriately documented, and maintained current. Coordinates initial, refresher, and retraining activities and verifies employee competency, as applicable.
- Provides training, coaching, and development to QA personnel and supports the qualification and continued competency of HACCP Team members, Internal Audit Team members, and other personnel with assigned food safety and quality responsibilities.
- Promotes and supports a strong Food Safety Culture through leadership, employee engagement, training, communication, accountability, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Monitors applicable FDA regulations, SQF/GFSI requirements, and other regulatory or certification changes and ensures relevant facility programs, procedures, and practices are updated as necessary.
- Provides Quality and Food Safety performance metrics, trends, significant issues, and improvement opportunities to facility and Quality leadership and escalates issues that may impact product safety, quality, compliance, or release.

Basic Qualifications:

- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with FDA regulations applicable to food and dietary supplement operations, including 21 CFR Part 111 and applicable Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs).
- SQF Practitioner experience required, with demonstrated knowledge of SQF/GFSI requirements and implementation and maintenance of an SQF System.
- Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience with HACCP programs, including CCP monitoring and verification.
- Experience managing or supporting a facility Quality Management System (QMS), including document control, records review, CAPA, internal audits, management review, traceability, and mock recalls.
- Experience with food safety and quality activities within packaging, labeling, receiving, in-process operations, sanitation verification, and finished product inspection.
- Experience supporting and/or leading regulatory, customer, GFSI/SQF, and internal audits.
- Dietary supplement manufacturing, packaging, or distribution experience.
- Bilingual English/Spanish required, with the ability to communicate effectively in both languages with employees at all levels of the organization.

Education:

- Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years related experience or equivalent combination of education and technical work experience.
- Preferred/Required Certifications: HACCP training/certification, 21 CFR training/certification and SQF Practitioner qualification or demonstrated experience

A bit about us...

At Grüns, we believe that foundational nutrition should be simple and convenient for everyone. We're dedicated to bringing comprehensive and real nutrition to you through our gummies, formulated from 60 nutrient-dense and whole-food ingredients. Simply enjoy a grab-and-go snack pack of gummies daily whenever fits best in your schedule and wherever life takes you.

Like you, we were disappointed. There’s an infinite number of “nutrition” companies, all focused on what’s best for them — not what’s best for you. Hundreds of products to sell you on, low-quality ingredients, and small nutrient doses. We’ve seen it all.

So we decided it was time to fix it. No more choking on and popping pills like a pharmacy. No more clean-up and disgust from gross powders. And no more cobbling together handfuls to dozens of supplements. Grüns is comprehensive nutrition, made convenient and delicious.

What we care about...

Be the Best: We hold ourselves, our teams, and our partners to an incredibly high standard - and we raise the bar constantly. "We've never done this before" isn't an excuse here. It's an invitation.

Own It: We act like our name is on the door. That means taking complete ownership of outcomes, collaborating deeply, working through roadblocks - not around them - and never waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Great owners are great partners.

Drive Impact, Urgently: We measure impact, not effort. We work smart and hard, move fast, and use every tool at our disposal - including AI - to focus our energy where it matters most.

Compensation & Perks:

For every role, we aim to have highly competitive compensation and opportunity for impact and career growth.

Everyone at Grüns works hard, but we believe in wellness and balance too. We have super strong benefits coverage -- for you and your family, generous PTO, free Grüns, and a few more perks centered around health and well-being that we can't wait to tell you about!

## About Grüns

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Grüns makes daily nutrition simple and enjoyable by offering comprehensive, whole-food ingredient gummies designed to replace multiple supplements.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Debt Financing)
- **Headquarters**: Beaverton, Oregon, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Chad Janis (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Wellness and Fitness Services / Nutritional Supplements
- Target customers: B2C (direct-to-consumer and retail), with a focus on health-conscious individuals seeking a convenient alternative to pills and powders
- Mission or purpose statement: "To make daily nutrition simple and enjoyable" by providing foundational nutrition that is convenient and delicious.

## Products & Services
- **Grüns Daily Nutrition Gummies**: A comprehensive nutrition gummy formulated with 60 nutrient-dense, whole-food ingredients across 8 core nutrient categories. Designed to replace multiple supplements (pills, powders) with a single, daily, grab-and-go snack pack. The product is produced in FDA and GMP compliant facilities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $11.1M (Debt Financing round in August 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Headline (led the Series B round, 1 investor). The company operates in 7 countries.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth of 163.5% year-over-year (from ~41 to 144 employees). Expanding retail presence with roles for Directors of Conventional Grocery and Alternative & Specialty Channels. Active job postings up 300% year-over-year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Product Innovation**: Claims to be the "world's only comprehensive nutrition gummy," combining 60 ingredients into a single, enjoyable format, differentiating from the fragmented supplement market of pills and powders.
- **Quality & Sourcing**: Emphasizes high standards with FDA and GMP compliant facilities, global sourcing of whole-food ingredients, and a commitment to real science and clinical research.
- **Brand & Mission**: A clear, consumer-centric mission to simplify nutrition, which resonates in a crowded market. The brand has a strong, modern identity and a growing social media presence.

## Strategic Focus
- **Retail Expansion**: Actively hiring for key retail and sales roles (Director of Sales, Target & Drug; Director of Conventional Grocery), indicating a push into major brick-and-mortar retail channels beyond direct-to-consumer.
- **International Growth**: Operating in 7 countries and hiring for "International Future Opportunities," signaling a focus on global market expansion.
- **Data & Technology**: Investing in data infrastructure and engineering (Senior Backend Engineer, Data; Sr. Product Manager, Retention; CPFR Sr. Analyst) to optimize operations, supply chain, and customer retention.
- **Brand Building**: Building a strong brand through roles like Senior Graphic Designer and Livestream Host, focusing on digital engagement and content creation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Grüns promotes a high-performance, ownership-driven culture. Key pillars include "Be the Best" (raising the bar), "Own It" (complete ownership of outcomes), and "Drive Impact, Urgently" (measuring impact over effort, using AI as a tool). This environment is suited for proactive, results-oriented individuals.
- **Growth & Impact**: With 163.5% headcount growth and a young company (founded 2023), employees have the opportunity to make a significant impact and grow their careers rapidly in a scaling organization.
- **Work Mode**: Many roles are remote, particularly in departments like Engineering, Data, Sales, and Marketing. Production and quality roles are based in the Dallas, Texas area. The company has a distributed team across the US and several other countries.
- **Salary Transparency**: Based on job postings, salary ranges are provided for some roles (e.g., Sr. Backend Engineer: $150k-$170k; BizOps Associate: $110k-$125k), indicating a level of transparency.

## Sources
1. [Grüns Careers Page (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gruns)
2. [Grüns Official Website](https://gruns.co/)
3. [Grüns LinkedIn Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gruns)
4. [Grüns "Our Story" Page](https://gruns.co/pages/our-story)
5. [Indeed Company Page for Grüns](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Gr%C3%BCns)

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