Director of Quality, Food Safety & Compliance

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Director of Quality, Food Safety & Compliance Company Overview

At Bobo’s Oat Bars everything we create is made with love and baked by hand using wholesome, simple ingredients you can find in your own kitchen. Working at Bobo’s is a labor of love. Our experienced staff exudes integrity, grit, passion, and a unified desire to share the love of Bobo’s and our products from their hearts to others. Bobo’s employees embrace and reflect the Bobo’s values being collaborative, adaptable, passionate, persevering, and fun-loving.

• Salary range is $120,000-$135,000
• Benefits include bonus potential, health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) with 4% company match, equity shares, sick and vacation leave

The Director of Quality, Food Safety & Compliance is responsible for leading and continuously improving all aspects of quality assurance, quality control, food safety, regulatory compliance, sanitation, and workplace safety across Bobo’s manufacturing operations. This on‑site leadership role serves as the enterprise owner of product integrity, consumer safety, employee safety, and regulatory risk. This role provides strategic direction and hands‑on leadership to ensure all products are produced in a manner that is safe for both consumers and employees, and that they meet or exceed internal standards, customer requirements, and regulatory expectations, including SQF, FDA, HACCP, FSMA, OSHA, and other applicable programs.

The ideal candidate is a strong leader with food manufacturing experience who can balance operational partnership with firm governance, ensuring quality, food safety, and workplace safety are fully embedded into how the business operates every day, not treated as separate or secondary priorities.

• Establish and execute the company’s quality, food safety, sanitation, and workplace safety strategy in alignment with business objectives.
• Lead, develop, and mentor both Safety & Quality managers to ensure accountability and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Serve as a key operational partner to Production, Supply Chain, R&D, and Logistics while maintaining independent authority over quality, food safety, and safety‑related decisions.
• Act as the primary quality, food safety, and workplace safety advisor to the VP of Operations and Executive Leadership team.
• Own and ensure compliance with all applicable regulatory and certification requirements, including SQF, FDA, HACCP, FSMA, OSHA (as applicable), and customer‑specific standards.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and effectiveness of quality systems across cleaning, baking, packaging, storage, and shipping operations, ensuring they support both food safety and employee safety.
• Ensure food safety, quality, and workplace safety risks are proactively identified, assessed, and mitigated through preventive controls and robust systems.
• Maintain clear decision rights related to product disposition, holds, releases, and recalls.
• Provide strategic oversight of sanitation programs, including management of third‑party sanitation providers.
• Ensure sanitation programs support food safety, equipment reliability, employee safety, and audit readiness.
• Lead and champion workplace safety programs in close partnership with operations to reduce risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and foster a strong, proactive safety culture.
• Drive a systems‑based approach to quality, food safety, and safety management, reducing reliance on manual processes and institutional knowledge.
• Ensure key processes, procedures, and standard work are documented, trained, and consistently executed with a strong emphasis on safe execution.
• Lead root‑cause analysis and CAPA processes to address internal issues, customer complaints, safety incidents, and audit findings.
• Lead all internal, customer, and third‑party audits, ensuring the organization is continuously audit‑ready.
• Use data and KPIs to monitor performance, identify trends, and drive measurable improvements in quality, food safety, and workplace safety.
• Own corrective‑action responses and ensure timely, effective closure of findings.
• Prepare and present regular quality, food…