Manufacturing SOP Development & Documentation

I’m looking for a specialist who lives and breathes Quality Documentation to bring our manufacturing processes under one clear, compliant roof. The immediate focus is on our Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)—from gathering shop-floor know-how through to producing clean, audit-ready documents that anyone on the line can follow. Here’s the landscape you’ll be stepping into: we run continuous production with tight dispatch windows, so every SOP you touch needs to dovetail with our production-planning rhythms, Excel MIS tracking, and container-planning checkpoints. Clarity, consistency, and traceability come first; fancy layout comes second. What I need from you • A complete, professionally written SOP pack covering each critical workstation (or an overhaul of what already exists where applicable). • Document control elements embedded—version codes, approval flow, and revision logs that satisfy internal audits and external certifying bodies. • Source files in an editable format (Word or Google Docs) plus a final locked PDF set for shop-floor distribution. • A quick-reference matrix so we can see at a glance which SOP maps to which step in the production and dispatch chain. Acceptance criteria • Language is unambiguous and actionable, following our template—or improve the template if it hampers clarity. • Each SOP references the correct quality checkpoints and includes measurable acceptance limits. • Documents pass an internal desk audit on first submission; anything flagged is corrected in one revision cycle. If you’ve walked ISO-compliant facilities, authored lean-friendly SOPs, or built documentation suites that actually get used, I’d like to see examples. Let’s get our procedures locked down so the rest of the plant can keep moving.