Jobs / Management and business operations / 11-3051.01
Quality Control Systems Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate quality assurance programs. Formulate quality control policies and control quality of laboratory and production efforts.
- US jobs
- 246,250 (SOC 11-3051 group, "Industrial Production Managers")
- Median wage
- $126,060 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of quality control systems managers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Stop production if serious product defects are present.
- Review and update standard operating procedures or quality assurance manuals.
- Monitor performance of quality control systems to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
- Review quality documentation necessary for regulatory submissions and inspections.
- Analyze quality control test results and provide feedback and interpretation to production management or staff.
- Verify that raw materials, purchased parts or components, in-process samples, and finished products meet established testing and inspection standards.
- Oversee workers including supervisors, inspectors, or laboratory workers engaged in testing activities.
- Direct product testing activities throughout production cycles.
- Instruct staff in quality control and analytical procedures.
- Direct the tracking of defects, test results, or other regularly reported quality control data.
- Participate in the development of product specifications.
- Identify quality problems or areas for improvement and recommend solutions.
Other job titles for this occupation (19)
Product Quality Director · Quality and Food Safety Manager · Quality and Process Improvement Manager · Quality Assurance Director (QA Director) · Quality Assurance Manager (QA Manager) · Quality Control Manager (QC Manager) · Quality Control Supervisor (QC Supervisor) · Quality Director · Quality Manager · Quality Systems Director · Construction Quality Control Manager · Quality Assurance Coordinator (QA Coordinator) · Quality Assurance Supervisor (QA Supervisor) · Quality Control Director (QC Director) · Quality Control Microbiology Supervisor (QC Microbiology Supervisor) · Quality Control Systems Manager (QC Systems Manager) · Quality Management Director · Quality Supervisor · Quality Systems Manager