Supervisor, Quality

At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

Corbion is seeking a dedicated Quality Control Supervisor to join our Totowa, NJ facility. This role is responsible for overseeing all quality control processes, maintaining standards, supporting audits, and managing customer complaint resolution. This role provides leadership to the laboratory team, ensuring departmental goals align with overall company objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Follow all GMP's (Good Manufacturing Practices)/GLP's (Good Laboratory Practice), FSMA, Safety, and Environmental regulations as well as company policies. 
• Maintain positive attitude. Focus on the customer, teamwork, and quality productivity.  
• Manage lab employees and lab safety.  Train quality workforce in quality techniques and tools to ensure product requirements are met; ensure continuous control over the quality of raw materials, facilities and products.
• Ensure proper customer contacts are made and maintained when required. Support services to customer for gauging, measuring techniques and tolerance specifications.
• Communicate shift performance through verbal, documented and meeting formats to other team leaders, production scheduler, Plant Manager, Business Manager and Maintenance team leader.
• Approve production testing and raw material shelf-life extensions.
• Lead meetings, RCA and CAPA's for non-conforming product.
• Prepare or review trending reports for quality control testing.
• Lead daily quality meeting to review KPI'S
• Conduct gauge R&R studies.
• Create specifications for new and existing products in SAP & Sample Manger.
• Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a science discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in a food or pharmaceutical facility with similar applications.
• 2+ years of experience in a supervisory role.
• Experience in food programs, including HACCP, GMP’s, SPC and exposure to a TPM environment.
• SAP experience.
• Lean-Six Sigma Certification preferred.

Working Environment

• Manufacturing facility with large, open production areas and loud machinery.
• Certain areas require hearing protection due to elevated noise levels.
• Exposure to high temperatures in summer and cold environments during winter.
• Work occurs in GMP-controlled and laboratory environments requiring protective equipment such as hairnets, beard nets, uniforms, gloves, and respirators.

Physical Demands (if applicable)

• Frequent walking, standing, bending, reaching, and climbing stairs.
• Occasional lifting of materials up to 30–50 lbs.
• Regular interaction with laboratory instruments, computers, and production equipment.
• Ability to maintain awareness and safely navigate an active manufacturing environment.

Our offer

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, performance, location and business or organizational needs. The base salary range for this role is $80,000 to $92,000. In addition, we offer:

• Variable bonus potential
• Paid time off, including company holidays
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401K with company match
• Education assistance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

About Corbion

Corbion is a sustainable ingredients company dedicated to preserving what matters, including food and food production, health, and the planet. We specialize in lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, food preservation solutions, functional blends, and algae ingredients, using our deep application and product knowledge to propel nature’s ingenuity through science. With more than a century of experience, we continue working side-by-side with our customers to make our cutting-edge technologies work for them. Leveraging our advanced capabilities in fermentation and preservation technology, we help customers differentiate their products in diverse markets ranging from food and animal nutrition to home & personal care, pharmaceuticals, electronics, medical devices, and bioplastics. In 2025, Corbion generated annual sales of € 1,267.4 million with a workforce of 2,408 FTEs. Corbion is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. For more information:  www.corbion.com

Corbion is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace.  All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, handicapping condition, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.

Corbion provides reasonable accommodation to applicants.

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled

Corbion does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. All candidates must be submitted by approved Corbion vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Talent Acquisition team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Corbion Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the Corbion Talent Acquisition Team.