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QA Lead Coordinator
Port Neches, TX
Contract to Direct Hire
About the Client
Our client is a global manufacturing business with a strong presence across the chemical, specialty ingredients, and industrial materials sectors. Their Port Neches facility plays an important role in supporting regulated production environments where quality, compliance, product safety, and continuous improvement are critical to day-to-day operations.
This is a site-based opportunity within a business that operates under multiple quality and safety standards, including ISO, GMP, food safety, pharma-adjacent, and customer-specific certification requirements. The team is looking for someone who can bring structure, confidence, and leadership to a highly regulated manufacturing environment while partnering closely with operations, technical, and senior leadership teams.
About the Role
This Quality Assurance Lead Coordinator will take ownership of the local Quality Management System, product safety programs, audit processes, validation activities, and certification maintenance for the site. The role is heavily focused on ensuring compliance across quality, food safety, GMP, ISO, and other regulatory/certification frameworks while driving continuous improvement across site quality processes.
You will lead internal and external audit programs, manage non-conformances through root cause analysis and closure, oversee validation plans and protocols, support supplier qualification, and ensure documentation systems remain controlled and audit ready. The position also plays a key role in maintaining and supporting certifications such as ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, EXCiPACT, EFfCI, Kosher, Halal, RSPO, and related quality standards.
This is a hands-on leadership role suited for someone who can operate both strategically and tactically - setting KPIs, leading committees, training teams, supporting customer quality requests, and serving as a key voice on product safety and compliance matters.
About You
You are an experienced quality professional with a strong background in chemical manufacturing or a similarly regulated production environment. You bring advanced knowledge of GMP requirements, ISO standards, internal and external audits, and quality management systems, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence quality culture across a site.
You are comfortable managing audit schedules, supporting certification programs, investigating non-conformances, performing root cause analysis, and driving corrective actions through to completion. You understand how to balance regulatory requirements, customer expectations, operational realities, and continuous improvement initiatives.