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Quality Assurance Lead

1st Shift: 5am – 1:30pm. M-F, with weekends as needed | Non-Exempt

Ready to lead on quality? Join Lief Labs in a hands-on role guiding QA Inspectors, solving issues on the manufacturing floor, and helping deliver dietary supplements customers can trust.

Lief Labs is a premier formulation and product development innovator and manufacturer of dietary supplements. Our in-house product development and R&D team create the best-tasting and cutting-edge supplement formulations. Lief also houses a state-of-the-art, full-service Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) manufacturing facility, which offers custom solutions for many supplement categories. Lief collaborates with entrepreneurial firms to help them build premier brands. Our turnkey solutions allow us to engage in seamless partnerships that help brands with scalability and sustainable growth. Lief Labs is in the Santa Clarita Valley (Valencia, CA.)

Why You’ll Want This Job

Coordinate daily QA activities without formal supervisory responsibility and keep inspections, documentation, and product releases on track in compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 111 cGMP regulations, internal procedures, customer specifications, and data-integrity expectations.

What You’ll Do

• Lead daily activities for QA Inspectors and provide on-the-floor guidance.
• Inspect raw materials, in-process products, and finished goods; execute line clearances.
• Verify labels, components, reconciliations, and product quality using appropriate equipment and methods.
• Document results, deviations, and nonconformances.
• Monitor blending, encapsulation, tableting, coating, packaging, and labeling in real time.
• Review batch records and quality documents for accuracy, completeness, and cGMP compliance.
• Maintain inspection and test records and support Certificates of Analysis.
• Identify process improvements and support root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and CAPA activities.
• Train and guide staff on quality standards and inspection methods.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Support deviations, nonconformance reports, material disposition, change control, and investigations.
• Help update SOPs, checklists, training materials, and quality procedures.
• Follow safety protocols and support quality and sustainability initiatives.

How You’ll Lead

This is a non-supervisory lead position. You will provide day-to-day guidance, training, coordination, and feedback to blending operators without direct supervisory responsibility.

What You Bring

You are a safety- and quality-minded manufacturing professional who can balance technical execution, team guidance, and changing production priorities.

What You Need

• High school diploma or equivalent required; associate or bachelor’s degree in a scientific or technical field preferred.
• Strong attention to detail, documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Comfort using laboratory and testing equipment and working independently or with a team.
• Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.

Physical Requirements

This is an active, on-your-feet role. Regular standing, walking, bending, kneeling, climbing, and similar movement are required. Regular exposure to moving equipment, fumes, loud noise, allergens, and occasional extreme temperatures. Must frequently lift or move 10–50 pounds and have close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment. No travel required.

Why This Role

• Be a key leader in a quality-driven, regulated manufacturing environment
• Opportunity to make a measurable impact on product quality and operational performance
• Grow your leadership skills while helping to deliver meaningful change

Pay and Benefits

Earn $25.91–$29.80 per hour

Starting pay is determined by several factors including experience, skills, education, training, and market conditions.

Benefits That Support You

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) with Company Participation
• Life Insurance
• Wellness Benefits
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)

Lief is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, or sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Suppose you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran. In that case, you have the right to request accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center due to your disability. To request an accommodation, contact the Lief Human Resources department.

Lief will consider employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

Lief uses E-Verify to confirm work eligibility in the United States. E-Verify compares the information on your Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to official government records