Food Safety & Quality Manager

Salary: $95,000–$105,000 + annual performance incentive

Element Bars is a growing contract manufacturer of premium nutrition bars serving nationally recognized consumer brands. We manufacture a variety of snack and nutrition products in an FDA-regulated facility and maintain certifications including SQF, Organic, and OU Kosher.

Our Food Safety & Quality Management System is well established, documented, and actively maintained. We are not looking for someone to build a quality system from scratch—we're looking for an experienced professional to own it, protect it, continuously improve it, and ensure it evolves with changing regulatory and customer requirements.

The Food Safety & Quality Manager is responsible for maintaining and continually improving our Food Safety & Quality Management System while supporting the company's growth and commitment to manufacturing excellence.

This position will work closely with Operations, R&D, Supply Chain, Production, and Executive Management, while serving as the primary quality contact for many of our brand customers. Because we are a contract manufacturer, collaboration with customer Quality and Regulatory teams is a significant part of the role.

The successful candidate is organized, detail-oriented, technically strong, and comfortable balancing regulatory compliance with practical manufacturing operations.

• Maintain and continuously improve the SQF-certified Food Safety & Quality Management System.
• Serve as the site's SQF Practitioner and lead certification and surveillance audits.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with FDA regulations, current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs), HACCP, preventive controls, and applicable food safety requirements.
• Monitor evolving regulatory requirements and customer standards, implementing necessary updates to programs and procedures.
• Lead internal audits and coordinate third-party and customer audits.
• Manage CAPA activities, root cause investigations, environmental monitoring, supplier quality programs, document control, and verification activities.
• Review customer quality requirements and coordinate responses with internal teams.
• Serve as the primary quality contact for customer quality departments during onboarding, routine business, investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor product quality trends, nonconformances, consumer complaints, and quality metrics.
• Work collaboratively with Operations to improve processes while maintaining practical, efficient manufacturing practices.
• Support training programs that reinforce food safety culture throughout the organization.
• Promote continuous improvement while maintaining the integrity of an already strong quality system.

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Biology, or a related scientific discipline preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in food manufacturing quality and food safety.
• Experience in an FDA-regulated food manufacturing environment.
• Experience in an FDA-regulated food manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of:
• • SQF
• • HACCP
• • Preventive Controls (PCQI preferred)
• • FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
• • cGMPs
• • CAPA and Root Cause Analysis
• Experience interacting directly with retail or brand customer quality organizations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

• Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI)
• HACCP Certification
• Internal Auditor training or equivalent food safety auditing experience