Bakery Quality Assurance Manager

Harvest Moon Baking Company (HMBC) was born in 2006 in Denver, Colorado. What started as a homegrown bakery has stayed true to old-school baking traditions ever since. We use pure, simple ingredients with no artificial preservatives, focusing on quality, consistency, and craft in everything we make.

As we celebrate 20 years of baking, we’re proud of how far we’ve come and grateful to the partners who’ve grown with us along the way.

Today, our handmade artisan selections are delivered to and served in restaurants across the United States. We say it, and we mean it:
Thanks for letting us handle your buns.

The Quality Assurance Manager oversees all food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance programs within an SQF certified commercial bread manufacturing facility. This role ensures full adherence to FDA regulations, 21 CFR requirements for food manufacturing, OSHA safety standards, HACCP principles, and SQF Code Edition 9 and 10. The QA Manager leads the Quality Assurance department and directly manages the AM and PM QA Tech teams as well as the AM and PM Sanitation teams, ensuring effective cleaning, environmental monitoring, and hygienic zoning practices that protect product integrity and consumer safety.

• Maintain and continuously improve the facility’s SQF Food Safety and Quality Management System, ensuring readiness for certification, surveillance, and customer audits.
• Ensure compliance with FDA Current Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) under 21 CFR Part 117 (FSMA – Preventive Controls for Human Food).
• Oversee development, verification, and validation of HACCP plans, including hazard analysis, critical control points, monitoring, and corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA workplace safety regulations, including employee training, documentation, and corrective action follow-up.
• Maintain regulatory documentation, including ingredient specifications, allergen controls, environmental monitoring records, and supplier verification programs.
• Serve as the primary contact for regulatory inspections, customer audits, and third party SQF audits.
• Lead the QA department in daily quality checks, line inspections, product testing, and verification activities.
• Oversee non-conformance investigations, root cause analysis, and implementation of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Manage the facility’s document control system, including SOPs, SSOPs, work instructions, and training materials.
• Ensure accurate calibration and maintenance of production monitoring equipment.
• Review and approve product formulations, labels, and packaging for regulatory and quality compliance.
• Directly supervise the Sanitation Supervisors, Team Leads, and Team Members for both AM and PM shifts.
• Oversee execution of Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs) and master sanitation schedules.
• Ensure sanitation practices comply with CFR, FDA, SQF, and HACCP requirements for hygienic design, allergen control, and environmental pathogen prevention.
• Lead environmental monitoring programs (EMP), including swabbing, trend analysis, and corrective actions.
• Verify that cleaning chemicals, concentrations, and application methods meet company and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure sanitation staff receive ongoing training in safety, chemical handling, and food hygiene.
• Responsible for daily review and verification of GMP, production, and sanitation records as well as annual reviews and validation reports.
• Daily evaluation of the finished product.
• Conduct GMP, SQF, and HACCP training and testing for all new hires and annually thereafter.
• Responsible for site security and food defense management.
• Adherent to attendance policy.

• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills with proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Solution-focused mindset.
• Ability to work efficiently, effectively, collaboratively, professionally, and respectfully in a stressful, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrates the ability to make timely, well-reasoned decisions in high pressure situations, while using available information per operations guidelines…