Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager – Food Manufacturing

Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager – Food Manufacturing

Reports to: Vice President of Operations

Location: Williamstown, NJ (Onsite)

Join a Growing Food Company with Iconic Brands

Violet Foods is a private equity-backed food company bringing together some of America's most recognized tomato brands, including Don Pepino®,
Sclafani®,
Fattoria Fresca®, and Muir Glen®. With more than a century of manufacturing heritage, we are building a best-in-class food company focused on operational excellence, food safety, continuous improvement, and long-term growth.

As we continue to invest in our brands, manufacturing capabilities, and people, we're looking for leaders who want to help shape the future of our company.

Our Williamstown, New Jersey manufacturing facility is at the heart of that vision, producing premium tomato products for retail, food service, natural, and private label customers throughout North America.

We're looking for an experienced Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager with a proven track record of leading Food Safety & Quality programs in a food manufacturing environment to join our leadership team at the Williamstown manufacturing facility
.

Reporting directly to the Vice President of Operations, this role serves as the senior Food Safety & Quality leader for the facility, responsible for building and continuously improving our Food Safety & Quality systems while partnering across the organization to ensure products consistently meet the highest standards for safety, quality, regulatory compliance, operational performance, and customer satisfaction.

In addition to leading quality at our Williamstown manufacturing facility, this role provides Food Safety and Quality leadership across Violet Foods' contract manufacturing (co-packer) network
, ensuring consistent quality standards across both internally manufactured and externally produced products.

Success in this role requires more than technical expertise. We're looking for a collaborative leader who enjoys developing people, partnering with Operations, solving problems, and continuously improving how work gets done. The ideal candidate understands that the strongest food safety and quality systems are built through teamwork, accountability, disciplined execution, and leadership by example throughout the organization.

This is a highly visible leadership position that works closely with Operations, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, and Product Development to help drive operational excellence while protecting the integrity of our brands.

At Violet Foods, Quality is a strategic business partner—not a compliance function. Success in this role requires someone who can influence decisions, build strong cross-functional relationships, and drive operational excellence while maintaining the highest standards of Food Safety and Quality.

If you're energized by building teams, improving processes, and making a lasting impact in a growing organization, we'd love to hear from you.

• Lead and continuously improve the site's Food Safety & Quality Management System.
• Develop, coach, and mentor the Quality team while fostering a culture where Food Safety & Quality are shared responsibilities across the organization.
• Build strong partnerships with Operations to solve manufacturing challenges, improve product quality, enhance operational performance, and exceed customer expectations.
• Champion a culture of food safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across the organization, including our manufacturing facility and contract manufacturing (co-packer) network.
• Ensure compliance with HACCP, FSMA Preventive Controls, GMPs, SSOPs, regulatory requirements, customer specifications, and company quality standards.
• Oversee quality throughout raw material receiving, production, packaging, laboratory operations, and finished goods.
• Partner with Operations and Sanitation to verify sanitation effectiveness and maintain a hygienic manufacturing environment.
• Ensure environmental monitoring and preventive control verification programs are effectively executed.
• Lead customer,…