Quality & Compliance Manager

Airgas

Lawrenceville, GA

Estimated pay: Est. $34–$41/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

Shift: Full time

R10104257 Quality & Compliance Manager (Open)

Location:

Lawrenceville, GA - Sever Rd - Cust. installations

**How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?**

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We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative.

**At Airgas, we** **RESPECT** **,** **HONOR** **and** **VALUE** **diversity.**

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**Airgas is Hiring for a Quality & Compliance Manager in Lawrenceville, GA!**

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***We are looking for you!***

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• **Comprehensive Family Benefits:** Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.
• **Support for Parents:** We offer up to 14-week paid child birth benefits to support growing families.
• **Future Security:** 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
• **Early Access:** Your benefits start after just 30 days of employment.

The Quality & Compliance Manager serves as a vital technical and operational quality champion and trusted partner for the Airgas Process Gases (APG) business unit and customer sites. Reporting directly to the Director of Quality and Compliance, this position is responsible for advancing continuous quality improvement, maintaining rigorous regulatory compliance, standardizing analytical laboratory instrumentation, and nurturing a culture of safety across the supply chain.

This dual-focus role bridges high-level strategic quality stewardship with front-line field collaboration—championing product specifications, conducting internal and external audits, establishing sustainable corrective action programs (CAPA), coordinating customer quality agreements, and fostering complete alignment with corporate safety pledges.

Ideally, you reside within a reasonable driving distance of a major national airport to facilitate regular travel supporting nationwide field operations.

**Job Duties:**

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**Quality Management Systems (QMS) & Strategic Improvement**

• **Program Governance:** Develop, implement, and support Total Quality Management (TQM) and Quality Assurance programs to ensure all specialty, medical, industrial, and food-grade gas products meet exacting reliability and high-purity standards.
• **Modernization & Benchmarking:** Adopt tech-forward quality strategies, including electronic Quality Management Systems (eQMS), automated quality control methods, and real-time performance tracking to establish benchmarks and track key performance indicators (KPIs).
• **Change Control & Governance:** Facilitate and oversee change control procedures and Management of Change (MOC) processes to maintain product integrity and customer alignment across all facilities.
• **Executive Reporting:** Analyze, synthesize, and present comprehensive performance summaries and reliability insights to executive leadership on a monthly basis.

**Regulatory Compliance, Audits & Corrective Actions (CAPA** )

• **Regulatory Adherence:** Ensure comprehensive organizational compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulatory bodies, including FDA (food-grade and USP regulations), OSHA, DOT, EPA, ISO (ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22000), GFSI, and CGA (Compressed Gas Association) standards.
• **Audit Execution:** Schedule, coordinate, and conduct remote and on-site internal and external audit plans for processing plants, distribution hubs, and laboratory facilities. Serve as the primary, supportive point of contact during official regulatory audits.
• **RCA & CAPA Standardization:** Guide collaborative Root Cause Analyses (RCA), Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (FMEA), and hazard analyses following quality non-conformances, implementing sustainable corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to prevent recurrence.

**Technical Laboratory Operations & Analytical Instrumentation**

• **Analytical Instrumentation Expertise:** Troubleshoot advanced analytical instrumentation, performing technical equipment repairs as supported by individual skill, knowledge, and mechanical aptitude.
• **Water Treatment & Equipment Standardization:** Coordinate analytical testing for raw materials and specialized water treatment processes (including reverse osmosis [RO] and electrodeionization [EDI]). Standardize laboratory equipment stacks across facilities and perform routine technical troubleshooting and minor repairs.

**Field Operations, Safety Culture & SOP Alignment**

• **Safety Culture Integration:** Exemplify, inspire, and foster shared commitment to the Airgas Safety Pledge, 12 Life