Senior Director, Food Safety & Quality - Multi-Site

The Swan Food Company; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 155,000 - 255,000; Full time

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Job summary

CJ Schwan’s is hiring a Senior Director, Food Safety & Quality (FSQ) to lead the food safety and quality strategy across a multi-site manufacturing platform. This role partners with Operations and FSQ leaders to strengthen regulatory compliance, product quality, and manufacturing performance. Travel required: 30%.

Ideally based at our Hopkins, MN headquarters. The base salary range is $155,000 to $255,000 annually, with eligibility for a 35% annual incentive bonus.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive food safety and quality experience.
• Deep knowledge of USDA/FDA requirements, HACCP, GFSI standards, and food manufacturing quality systems.
• Proven ability to lead leaders, influence senior executives, manage complex FSQ issues across multiple sites.
• Strong business judgment, analytical capability, communication, and change leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop plant FSQ leaders, establishing consistent standards and accountability across multiple sites.
• Translate enterprise FSQ strategy into actionable priorities and sustainable results.
• Drive improvements across complaints, holds and rework, sanitation, environmental monitoring, audit performance and cost of poor quality.
• Partner with Operations leaders to improve process capability and prevent quality issues.
• Lead response to significant FSQ incidents, including risk assessment, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and escalation.
• Identify emerging risks, performance trends and investment priorities for senior leadership.

Skills

FSQ leadership

Regulatory compliance

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology, Engineering or related field; master’s preferred

Job description

CJ Schwan’s is hiring a Senior Director, Food Safety & Quality (FSQ) to lead the food safety and quality strategy across a multi-site manufacturing platform. This role partners with Operations and FSQ leaders to strengthen regulatory compliance, product quality, and manufacturing performance. Travel required: 30%.

Ideally based at our Hopkins, MN headquarters. The base salary range is $155,000 to $255,000 annually, with eligibility for a 35% annual incentive bonus.