Senior Food Safety & Quality Assurance; FSQA) Manager

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) Manager to lead food safety, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and quality management systems (QMS) across multiple food manufacturing facilities. This senior leadership role is responsible for maintaining HACCP programs, ensuring FDA, USDA, and FSMA compliance, overseeing SQF and GFSI certification requirements, and driving operational excellence through continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate brings extensive food manufacturing experience, strong technical expertise in GMPs, preventive controls, sanitation, and audit management, and a proven ability to lead high-performing quality teams in a fast-paced, multi-site production environment.

• Lead and standardize food safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance programs across multiple manufacturing facilities, ensuring consistent implementation of food safety policies, quality standards, and operational best practices.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve food safety management systems (FSMS), quality management systems (QMS), standard operating procedures (SOPs), and quality control processes to support product safety, regulatory compliance, and manufacturing efficiency.
• Oversee Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) programs, including hazard assessments, critical control point (CCP) monitoring, preventive controls, verification activities, corrective actions, and ongoing food safety risk assessments.
• Ensure compliance with FDA regulations, USDA/FSIS requirements where applicable, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), and applicable federal, state, and local food safety regulations.
• Direct SQF, BRCGS, and other Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certification programs, including certification maintenance, internal audits, third-party assessments, regulatory inspections, audit readiness, and corrective action management.
• Lead food safety investigations, corrective and preventive action (CAPA) programs, root cause analysis, nonconformance management, and quality improvement initiatives to reduce recurring issues and strengthen preventive controls.
• Oversee sanitation verification, allergen management, environmental monitoring, microbiological testing, food defense, supplier quality assurance, and preventive maintenance coordination to minimize contamination risks and maintain product integrity.
• Manage product holds, nonconforming materials, product disposition, quality investigations, traceability systems, mock recalls, and recall preparedness to ensure timely resolution of food safety and quality concerns.
• Collaborate with Production, Operations, Quality Control, Sanitation, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and Research and Development teams to integrate food safety requirements into daily manufacturing operations, process improvements, and new product introductions.
• Establish and monitor food safety and quality key performance indicators (KPIs), including audit performance, customer complaints, corrective action effectiveness, sanitation compliance, and process deviations. Lead, mentor, and develop FSQA personnel while communicating food safety risks, regulatory concerns, and continuous improvement priorities to senior leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Safety, Microbiology, Biology, Chemistry, Quality Management, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience in food manufacturing and quality assurance.
• Minimum of 7 to 10 years of progressive food safety and quality assurance experience in food manufacturing, including demonstrated supervisory, management, or senior leadership…