Quality and Productivity Manager

Location: remote USA anywhere (central time zone preferred) 

Reports to: Director, Supply Chain Quality and Productivity

Travel: up to 25% domestic travel as needed (must be located within 30 miles of a major metropolitan area airport)

As one of the fastest growing non-alcoholic beverage brands, Liquid Death uses comedy and entertainment to make health and sustainability 50 times more fun. We take the healthiest things you can drink and package it into infinitely recyclable cans that compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands across energy drinks, beer, and junk food. Our product lines include mountain water, sparkling mountain water, sparkling flavored water, iced tea, and our hydration sticks, Death Dust. A portion of Liquid Death’s proceeds goes to nonprofits who are helping fight plastic pollution and bring clean drinking water to those in need.

Liquid Death is looking for a Quality and Productivity Manager with proven experience in supporting Quality, Food Safety, and Supply Chain Productivity Programs.  This position will need to play an integral role in building Liquid Death’s first internal Quality and Productivity programs, providing the analytics to deliver against our quality and productivity requirements, maintain our quality requirements in compliance with Quality & Food Safety Standards, and engage with our external supplier chain partners (co-manufacturers, suppliers, 3PLs, transportation carriers) to resolve quality and productivity issues.  This includes, but is not limited to, raw material ingredients, packaging, product testing, and managing Liquid Death’s co-manufacturing partners. 

Key Responsibilities include: 

• Responsible for working with third party manufacturers (TPMs) and Suppliers to

ensure that all Liquid Death products are produced consistently and meet Liquid

Death’s standards of quality, including raw materials, packaging, and finished

Products

• Productivity Responsibilities to include but not limited to: 

- Engaging in External Benchmarking to support 3-year productivity roadmap covering Supply Chain - Operations Expense, COGS

- Reporting on progress against productivity goals to cover Monthly Business Reviews and Board Reviews

- Support root cause analysis with Supply Chain team for continuous improvement

• Will collaborate with the Supply Chain team and lead process implementations to drive cost savings and process improvements 
• Manage, design, implement, and improve supply chain, operations, and quality control procedures and documentation (to include Retailer documentation requests, master data (spec sheets), manufacturing requirements, 3PL requirements, Supplier requirements) and ensure all TPMs and suppliers are compliant and meet specified requirements
• Perform periodic audits with TPMs to ensure all certifications are up to date (i.e.

SQF, State Licenses, etc) and will manage all records, documentation, test results, licenses and certifications

• Lead investigations of productivity and quality-related incidents or deviations, identifying root causes and recommending and implementing corrective actions
• Work closely with the customer service team to answer, evaluate, and investigate

quality related consumer complaints

Qualifications/Requirements: 

• A Bachelor's degree in food science, engineering, quality or a related discipline preferred but not quired 
• A minimum of 5+ years of relatable experience managing third party manufacturers or in a manufacturing environment with a demonstrated history of success implementing quality processes, procedures and food safety as well as experience completing root cause analysis and statistical process control
• Canning packaging quality experience preferred and previous beverage formulation and manufacturing experience required
• Knowledge of and experience with FDA FSMA Good Manufacturing Practices 21 CFR Part 117 required 
• Prior experience with an ERP system(s) and prior recall and food traceability experience required 
• Detailed understanding of SQF (safe quality food) and other GFSI (global food security index) audit schemes
• A high le