# Quality Assurance Manager

**Company:** [Elite Talent](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/6Qm5f6QSytzz6xzVBn1cPm.md)
**Location:** Baghdad, Iraq
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

[Apply for this job](https://jobs.workable.com/view/67353909-14f2-4061-8e94-914bd4dfae82)

## Description

Job Brief

The Quality Assurance Manager leads quality and food safety systems for a water cup production company, ensuring effective preventive controls, documentation and continuous improvement across operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain quality and food safety systems, policies and procedures.

• Manage documentation, risk assessments, change control and quality objectives.

• Oversee HACCP and applicable ISO-based systems, traceability and supplier assessments.

• Lead internal audits and coordinate external audits and inspections.

• Investigate nonconformities and complaints, and monitor corrective actions.

• Coordinate with Quality Control and Production to prevent recurring defects.

• Maintain procedures for product control, release and recall as applicable.

• Train staff in hygiene and quality practices and develop the QA team.

• Monitor quality performance and report risks and improvement recommendations to management.

## Requirements

Qualifications

• Degree in food science, microbiology, chemistry, engineering or a related field.

• Experience in quality assurance in food, beverage or water manufacturing, including leadership of quality systems and teams.

• Knowledge of HACCP, food safety, quality management, audits and corrective actions.

• Local and expatriate candidates are welcome.

Skills

• Quality systems and preventive controls.

• Audit management and documentation.

• Root-cause analysis and corrective actions.

• Leadership, communication and cross-functional coordination.

• Analytical thinking and problem-solving.