Director of Quality, Food Safety & Compliance

Position Title: Director of Quality, Food Safety & ComplianceCompany 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. Compensation and Benefits:       Salary range is $120,000-$135,000       Benefits include bonus potential, health, dental and vision insurance, 401k with 4% company match, equity shares, sick and vacation leavePosition Summary: 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.Essential Functions:       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 safety, and safety updates to executive leadership, highlighting risks, trends, and improvement initiatives.       Maintain accurate, compliant documentation and records across all quality, food safety, and safety systems.       Serve as the primary contact for quality, food safety, and compliance-related customer interactions.       Build credibility and trust with customers, auditors, and regulatory agencies through transparency and strong program execution.       Perform other duties as required Supervisory Responsibility: This position will lead the Quality& Safety Departments with direct oversight of area managersQualifications / Education / Experience Desired:       Bachelor's degree in food science, Food Safety, Quality Management, or a related field; a Master's degree is preferred.       A minimum of 10 years of experience in quality assurance and food safety within the food manufacturing industry, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.       In-depth knowledge of food safety regulations, including SQF, HACCP, FDA, and GFSI standards.       Proven experience in a baking or similar food manufacturing environment is highly desirable.       Must have senior management experience with a demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams       Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and inspire large teams.       Experience in leading workplace safety.       Excellent problem-solving skills with a result-driven approach.       Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.       Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma or Lean is a plus.Supervision Given:       This position will report to the VP of Operations       The position holder is expected to be able to work with minimal oversight at times, able to confidently handle situations on their ownPhysical Demands:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, use hands to grasp and handle objects; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include looking at a computer screen and ability to adjust focus. The employee may be required to travel, must drive a motor vehicle, and effectively communicate using telephone and email.Work Location: On-site at our headquarters located in Loveland, COTravel Required: Some-Less than 10%; May be required to attend occasional off-site training Resume Submission: All candidates with relevant experience please submit resume to Jobs@. Please put Director of Quality Food Safety & Compliance in the subject line of email.Bobo's Oat Bars is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Company does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, marital status, familial status, disability, genetic information, protected veteran/military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Created: 2026-03-04