Quality Control Manager Jobs in Michigan
Quality Control Manager jobs in Michigan are concentrated in the Detroit metro, Grand Rapids, and Lansing, where automotive, aerospace, and food manufacturing drive consistent demand for mid-level and senior QC professionals. Stellantis, Ford Motor Company, and Gentex Corporation are among the established Michigan employers with long-running quality management teams. The most in-demand specialties include supplier quality, ISO 9001 systems management, and automotive production quality. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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LIGHT LABS
Powering a healthier food system through data, transparency, and accountability.
Quality Control Manager
Light Labs | Ann Arbor, MI (On-site, Lab) | Supporting Ann Arbor and Salt Lake City | Reports to the Quality Director
The Opportunity
Are you the quality professional people turn to when a result has to hold up? Someone who wants to be the one who decides when a number is ready to leave the lab? Then you'd be a great fit as our Quality Control Manager. You'll own the day-to-day quality system across both of our labs, decide when data is fit to release, drive corrective actions to closure, and be the person who notices a drifting instrument before a client does.
You'll also serve as deputy to the Quality Director and cover for them when they're out, which means being ready to speak for quality in front of an assessor, a client, or the lab floor.
Why Light Labs
Light Labs returns results in about three days where the industry takes seven to fourteen, at sub-ppb detection, under ISO/IEC 17025. Brands put those numbers on their product pages and inside their compliance filings for Prop 65, CA AB 899, and Amazon.
None of that matters if the results aren't defensible. That's where you come in.
What You'll Own
The quality system and accreditation. Maintain our ISO/IEC 17025 QMS: the quality manual, SOP lifecycle, document and record control, and revision history. Own change control for methods, instruments, software, and procedures, including the impact assessment.
Audit readiness, year-round. Run the internal audit program from scheduling through closure. When the accreditation body comes in, prepare for the assessment, host it, and close the findings with evidence.
One standard across two sites. Keep the quality system consistent so a result means the same thing in Ann Arbor and Salt Lake City.
The call on release. Do the initial review of out-of-specification and out-of-trend results, decide whether a result is fit to release, and escalate when it isn't.
Investigations that close. Lead nonconformance, deviation, and CAPA investigations from initiation through root cause to effectiveness check. Investigate client complaints and quality inquiries, and write the responses.
Data integrity. Hold LIMS records and instrument raw data to attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, and accurate.
The control chart program. Set limits, review charts on a defined cadence, and act on shifts and trends.
Method and instrument performance. Manage proficiency testing and interlaboratory comparisons and investigate unsatisfactory scores. Support method validation and verification, including precision, accuracy, detection limits, and measurement uncertainty. Maintain equipment qualification and calibration records, track stability studies, and run the Environmental Monitoring Program.
The numbers leadership sees. Report OOS rates, CAPA aging, PT performance, and on-time closure into management review, and flag the trends that point to process or equipment problems.
Outside labs and suppliers. Qualify and monitor subcontracted and reference labs, review their results before they reach a client report, and evaluate the critical suppliers and consumables that affect result quality.
Training and competency. Own analyst authorization, requalification, and the documented evidence that our analysts stay competent.
Quality built in, not bolted on. Work with our software team to build quality checks directly into our LIMS and automation, and with technicians and chemists to keep standards consistent across every workflow.
Staying current. Track changes to ISO/IEC 17025, FDA, and USP requirements and translate them into practice.
What You'll Need
Owned a quality subsystem end to end (CAPA, internal audit, document control, training, or method validation) in an accredited testing lab or regulated manufacturing environment, as part of a longer run in quality.
Supported an ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation assessment directly, with a working knowledge of the standard.
Run OOS and deviation investigations, including root cause analysis and CAPA closure.
Applied control chart methodology and QC trending in practice, not just on paper.
Written investigations, SOPs, and audit responses that held up under review.
Worked in LIMS and QMS software and speak the terminology.
A degree in chemistry, biology, engineering, or a related field.
Real communication skills and the confidence to lead. You'll be changing how people work when you find problems, so you need to explain the why, bring technicians and scientists along, and step into the Quality Director's shoes when needed.
Ready to be on-site in Ann Arbor, MI, with regular time on the lab floor, PPE in lab areas, and occasional travel to Salt Lake City.
Nice to Have
Dietary supplement, food, or consumer goods testing experience: heavy metals, pesticides, microbiology, or nutritional analysis
FDA cGMP (21 CFR 111 or 117), USP methods, and state or retailer requirements such as Prop 65, CA AB 899, or Amazon
Supervising or mentoring quality or lab staff
Quality work across more than one site or lab
ASQ CQA, CQE, or CMQ/OE certification, or formal internal auditor training
Validating software or automated data flows in a regulated environment
Who We Are
Light Labs is building the modern platform for lab testing, starting with consumer goods brands: cheaper, faster testing that also automates regulatory compliance and drives revenue.
Our labs run LC-MS/MS, ICP-MS, HPLC, and GC-MS across food and supplement matrices, covering heavy metals, pesticides, glyphosate, PFAS, BPA/BPS, microplastics, mycotoxins, actives, and nutrients. We have 397 tests in the library and growing, and we're ISO 17025 accredited with low PT z-scores. Quality here is daily calibration, certified reference materials, control samples, blanks, and duplicates, because a number we release ends up on a product page and inside someone's compliance filing. Hundreds of food and supplement brands already test with us, including AG1, Chomps, David Protein, Seed Health, Momentous, and Little Spoon.
Consumers deserve to know what's actually in the products that affect their families' health, and transparency is what creates that informed customer. Beyond a faster, cheaper lab, we're building the infrastructure for brands to push lab data straight to their product pages (what's in it, what's not, claims verified) and automatically comply with regulations like Prop 65, CA AB 899, and Amazon's testing requirements.
That full loop, testing through customer-facing data, lets brands differentiate themselves and become the obvious choice in their category.
We run labs in Ann Arbor, MI and Salt Lake City, UT, with headquarters in Austin, TX. We're backed by 8VC and Valor Equity Partners, with CPG founders and strategics in the round. Everyone here, lab tech to engineer to sales, has a seat at the table in making the food system more transparent.
Our Mission
Everything we consume is getting more toxic and less nutritious, and the problem is invisible. You can't see, taste, or smell it:
Cinnamon apple puree pouches, marketed for children and labeled preservative-free, kosher, and gluten-free, contained lead levels 200 times greater than the FDA's proposed guidelines.
87% of 650 children's food samples tested positive for glyphosate.
Over 1,300 chemicals are banned in cosmetics in the EU, while only 11 are banned in the United States.
The US allows thousands of food additives that are banned in other countries.
A study of 168 baby foods found that 95% contained at least one heavy metal (arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium), with a quarter containing all four.
Seven out of eight samples of kale tested contained disturbing levels of PFAs, with organic kale containing even higher levels of the toxic compounds.
Testing for purity today is slow, expensive, and nearly impossible to interpret without a PhD. No feedback loop means no pressure to change, but if people knew what was actually in their food, they'd shop differently. Nothing changes until someone can measure it, publish it, and be right. You'd be the one making sure we're right.
Founding Team
Nick Mares, 2x founder (Kettle & Fire, a $100M/year brand, and Upside Financing, exited 2022), $60M+ raised, CEO and COO experience, Thiel Fellow.
Vijay Manohar, helped scale Samsara to $1B ARR and IPO (NYSE: IOT). B.S. computer engineering, UT Austin.
What You Get
Top-decile salary, plus equity for every employee
Full health, dental, and vision coverage
Generous PTO and company holidays
A promote-from-within lab that's adding sites, not consolidating them
Values We're Looking For
First Principles. We're looking for team members who can deal with ambiguity, deconstruct problems, and build the optimal solution. Question every requirement, delete any part or process you can, simplify and optimize, accelerate cycle time, automate. That same instinct should make you curious enough to ask why something is done a certain way, and forward-looking enough to notice what won't hold up once we're 5 to 10 times this size.
Standard of Excellence. High standards are contagious. A+ talent attracts A+ talent. There's a glut of mediocrity in the world. We're chasing after the products and people that strive for excellence.
Bias for Action. Take initiative, make decisions quickly, and have a willingness to experiment and learn from failures. Customer expectations aren't static, they rise over time, which means we have to continuously improve every single day.
Low Ego. Coachability: it's not about being right, it's about getting to the right answer. React calmly to criticism or negative feedback, treat feedback as an opportunity for information and improvement. Respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when it's uncomfortable, and once a decision is made, commit wholly and move forward.
Why This Role
Brands trust our numbers enough to put them on their product pages, and that trust starts with quality. Every result you release ends up in front of a regulator or a parent deciding what to feed their kid, and you're the last set of eyes on it before it gets there.
This role comes with something rare in this field: the chance to shape a quality system while the company is still growing into it. We're adding labs. The standards you set in Ann Arbor will carry to Salt Lake City and every site after that. Deputy to the Quality Director is the starting point, and we promote from within.
If you want your work to count for more than passing the next audit, apply today.
Light Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
LIGHT LABS
Powering a healthier food system through data, transparency, and accountability.
Quality Control Manager
Light Labs | Ann Arbor, MI (On-site, Lab) | Supporting Ann Arbor and Salt Lake City | Reports to the Quality Director
The Opportunity
Are you the quality professional people turn to when a result has to hold up? Someone who wants to be the one who decides when a number is ready to leave the lab? Then you'd be a great fit as our Quality Control Manager. You'll own the day-to-day quality system across both of our labs, decide when data is fit to release, drive corrective actions to closure, and be the person who notices a drifting instrument before a client does.
You'll also serve as deputy to the Quality Director and cover for them when they're out, which means being ready to speak for quality in front of an assessor, a client, or the lab floor.
Why Light Labs
Light Labs returns results in about three days where the industry takes seven to fourteen, at sub-ppb detection, under ISO/IEC 17025. Brands put those numbers on their product pages and inside their compliance filings for Prop 65, CA AB 899, and Amazon.
None of that matters if the results aren't defensible. That's where you come in.
What You'll Own
The quality system and accreditation. Maintain our ISO/IEC 17025 QMS: the quality manual, SOP lifecycle, document and record control, and revision history. Own change control for methods, instruments, software, and procedures, including the impact assessment.
Audit readiness, year-round. Run the internal audit program from scheduling through closure. When the accreditation body comes in, prepare for the assessment, host it, and close the findings with evidence.
One standard across two sites. Keep the quality system consistent so a result means the same thing in Ann Arbor and Salt Lake City.
The call on release. Do the initial review of out-of-specification and out-of-trend results, decide whether a result is fit to release, and escalate when it isn't.
Investigations that close. Lead nonconformance, deviation, and CAPA investigations from initiation through root cause to effectiveness check. Investigate client complaints and quality inquiries, and write the responses.
Data integrity. Hold LIMS records and instrument raw data to attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, and accurate.
The control chart program. Set limits, review charts on a defined cadence, and act on shifts and trends.
Method and instrument performance. Manage proficiency testing and interlaboratory comparisons and investigate unsatisfactory scores. Support method validation and verification, including precision, accuracy, detection limits, and measurement uncertainty. Maintain equipment qualification and calibration records, track stability studies, and run the Environmental Monitoring Program.
The numbers leadership sees. Report OOS rates, CAPA aging, PT performance, and on-time closure into management review, and flag the trends that point to process or equipment problems.
Outside labs and suppliers. Qualify and monitor subcontracted and reference labs, review their results before they reach a client report, and evaluate the critical suppliers and consumables that affect result quality.
Training and competency. Own analyst authorization, requalification, and the documented evidence that our analysts stay competent.
Quality built in, not bolted on. Work with our software team to build quality checks directly into our LIMS and automation, and with technicians and chemists to keep standards consistent across every workflow.
Staying current. Track changes to ISO/IEC 17025, FDA, and USP requirements and translate them into practice.
What You'll Need
Owned a quality subsystem end to end (CAPA, internal audit, document control, training, or method validation) in an accredited testing lab or regulated manufacturing environment, as part of a longer run in quality.
Supported an ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation assessment directly, with a working knowledge of the standard.
Run OOS and deviation investigations, including root cause analysis and CAPA closure.
Applied control chart methodology and QC trending in practice, not just on paper.
Written investigations, SOPs, and audit responses that held up under review.
Worked in LIMS and QMS software and speak the terminology.
A degree in chemistry, biology, engineering, or a related field.
Real communication skills and the confidence to lead. You'll be changing how people work when you find problems, so you need to explain the why, bring technicians and scientists along, and step into the Quality Director's shoes when needed.
Ready to be on-site in Ann Arbor, MI, with regular time on the lab floor, PPE in lab areas, and occasional travel to Salt Lake City.
Nice to Have
Dietary supplement, food, or consumer goods testing experience: heavy metals, pesticides, microbiology, or nutritional analysis
FDA cGMP (21 CFR 111 or 117), USP methods, and state or retailer requirements such as Prop 65, CA AB 899, or Amazon
Supervising or mentoring quality or lab staff
Quality work across more than one site or lab
ASQ CQA, CQE, or CMQ/OE certification, or formal internal auditor training
Validating software or automated data flows in a regulated environment
Who We Are
Light Labs is building the modern platform for lab testing, starting with consumer goods brands: cheaper, faster testing that also automates regulatory compliance and drives revenue.
Our labs run LC-MS/MS, ICP-MS, HPLC, and GC-MS across food and supplement matrices, covering heavy metals, pesticides, glyphosate, PFAS, BPA/BPS, microplastics, mycotoxins, actives, and nutrients. We have 397 tests in the library and growing, and we're ISO 17025 accredited with low PT z-scores. Quality here is daily calibration, certified reference materials, control samples, blanks, and duplicates, because a number we release ends up on a product page and inside someone's compliance filing. Hundreds of food and supplement brands already test with us, including AG1, Chomps, David Protein, Seed Health, Momentous, and Little Spoon.
Consumers deserve to know what's actually in the products that affect their families' health, and transparency is what creates that informed customer. Beyond a faster, cheaper lab, we're building the infrastructure for brands to push lab data straight to their product pages (what's in it, what's not, claims verified) and automatically comply with regulations like Prop 65, CA AB 899, and Amazon's testing requirements.
That full loop, testing through customer-facing data, lets brands differentiate themselves and become the obvious choice in their category.
We run labs in Ann Arbor, MI and Salt Lake City, UT, with headquarters in Austin, TX. We're backed by 8VC and Valor Equity Partners, with CPG founders and strategics in the round. Everyone here, lab tech to engineer to sales, has a seat at the table in making the food system more transparent.
Our Mission
Everything we consume is getting more toxic and less nutritious, and the problem is invisible. You can't see, taste, or smell it:
Cinnamon apple puree pouches, marketed for children and labeled preservative-free, kosher, and gluten-free, contained lead levels 200 times greater than the FDA's proposed guidelines.
87% of 650 children's food samples tested positive for glyphosate.
Over 1,300 chemicals are banned in cosmetics in the EU, while only 11 are banned in the United States.
The US allows thousands of food additives that are banned in other countries.
A study of 168 baby foods found that 95% contained at least one heavy metal (arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium), with a quarter containing all four.
Seven out of eight samples of kale tested contained disturbing levels of PFAs, with organic kale containing even higher levels of the toxic compounds.
Testing for purity today is slow, expensive, and nearly impossible to interpret without a PhD. No feedback loop means no pressure to change, but if people knew what was actually in their food, they'd shop differently. Nothing changes until someone can measure it, publish it, and be right. You'd be the one making sure we're right.
Founding Team
Nick Mares, 2x founder (Kettle & Fire, a $100M/year brand, and Upside Financing, exited 2022), $60M+ raised, CEO and COO experience, Thiel Fellow.
Vijay Manohar, helped scale Samsara to $1B ARR and IPO (NYSE: IOT). B.S. computer engineering, UT Austin.
What You Get
Top-decile salary, plus equity for every employee
Full health, dental, and vision coverage
Generous PTO and company holidays
A promote-from-within lab that's adding sites, not consolidating them
Values We're Looking For
First Principles. We're looking for team members who can deal with ambiguity, deconstruct problems, and build the optimal solution. Question every requirement, delete any part or process you can, simplify and optimize, accelerate cycle time, automate. That same instinct should make you curious enough to ask why something is done a certain way, and forward-looking enough to notice what won't hold up once we're 5 to 10 times this size.
Standard of Excellence. High standards are contagious. A+ talent attracts A+ talent. There's a glut of mediocrity in the world. We're chasing after the products and people that strive for excellence.
Bias for Action. Take initiative, make decisions quickly, and have a willingness to experiment and learn from failures. Customer expectations aren't static, they rise over time, which means we have to continuously improve every single day.
Low Ego. Coachability: it's not about being right, it's about getting to the right answer. React calmly to criticism or negative feedback, treat feedback as an opportunity for information and improvement. Respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when it's uncomfortable, and once a decision is made, commit wholly and move forward.
Why This Role
Brands trust our numbers enough to put them on their product pages, and that trust starts with quality. Every result you release ends up in front of a regulator or a parent deciding what to feed their kid, and you're the last set of eyes on it before it gets there.
This role comes with something rare in this field: the chance to shape a quality system while the company is still growing into it. We're adding labs. The standards you set in Ann Arbor will carry to Salt Lake City and every site after that. Deputy to the Quality Director is the starting point, and we promote from within.
If you want your work to count for more than passing the next audit, apply today.
Light Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
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What Michigan Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in quality control manager jobs across Michigan.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, or a related technical field required
- Minimum five years of quality control or assurance experience in a manufacturing environment
- Familiarity with IATF 16949 or ISO 9001 quality management system standards
- Proficiency with statistical process control tools and root cause analysis methods
- Experience leading internal audits, supplier audits, or PPAP documentation processes
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional teams and regulatory reporting
Quality Control Manager Jobs in Michigan: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a quality control manager in Michigan?
Most quality control managers in Michigan start with a bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing technology, or a related discipline, then build several years of hands-on experience in production or quality assurance roles. Michigan does not require a state-issued license for this position, but employers strongly favor candidates with the Certified Quality Manager credential from the American Society for Quality, which is recognized by Michigan's dominant automotive and manufacturing sectors.
How much do quality control managers make in Michigan?
Quality control managers in Michigan earn a median of about $120,660 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $77,110 for the lowest 10% to over $182,060 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire quality control managers in Michigan?
Employers hiring quality control managers in Michigan right now include Ameritek, PTI Quality Containment Solutions, and SRM Concrete, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Michigan's deep automotive supply chain means hiring activity is spread across OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, and aerospace and food processing companies headquartered throughout the state.
Which Michigan cities have the most quality control manager jobs?
The cities with the most quality control manager openings in Michigan are Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Warren. The Detroit metro dominates because of its high concentration of automotive OEMs and global suppliers, while Grand Rapids draws openings from its large food manufacturing and medical device sectors, and smaller industrial corridors around Lansing and Flint add further volume from mid-size manufacturing plants.
Are there remote quality control manager jobs in Michigan?
Yes, but they're rare. Quality control managers typically work on the production floor or at supplier sites, so most Michigan roles require an on-site presence. About 11% of quality control manager openings tied to Michigan are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, and those positions tend to involve supplier quality documentation review, audit coordination, or quality systems oversight rather than direct floor inspection.
How can I get hired as a quality control manager in Michigan with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is to start as a quality inspector, quality technician, or production supervisor at a Michigan automotive or manufacturing plant, then work toward promotion. Large Michigan employers like Magna International and American Axle run structured development programs that move inspectors into coordinator and junior manager roles. Earning an entry-level Certified Quality Technician credential from the American Society for Quality strengthens an application significantly, and community college programs at Macomb Community College and Ferris State University offer quality and manufacturing technology certificates that Michigan employers actively recruit from.
Where can I find and apply to quality control manager jobs in Michigan?
You can find and apply to quality control manager jobs in Michigan on Migrate Mate, which lists current Michigan openings updated regularly. Search the listings for roles that match your industry background and experience level, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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