Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager

Ditsch USA Manager, FSQA

Ditsch USA creates memorable pretzel experiences! We bake artisan pretzels available for both food service and retail markets. As a leading producer of pretzels, we are committed to freshness and providing clean-label products. The quality of our irresistible products comes from more than 100 years of experience and craftsmanship in the ART OF PRETZEL MAKING!

We seek those who want to learn and grow within our organization. Ditsch USA offers development options to add to your skill set and open new opportunities for you within our organization. At Ditsch USA you will find a welcoming, safe, and team-orientated environment.

The Manager, FSQA will provide leadership and oversight of Food Safety, Quality, and Sanitation programs across two bakery facilities. This role ensures compliance with regulatory, customer, and company standards while fostering our culture of food safety, product quality, and continuous improvement. The FSQA Manager will play a critical role in developing, maintaining, and verifying quality systems, product specifications, and labeling compliance to protect the brand and ensure consistent excellence across both sites.

Key Responsibilities :

• Oversee dual-site FSQA programs, ensuring consistent implementation of food safety, quality, and sanitation standards.
• Manage and verify compliance with HACCP, FSMA, GFSI / SQF, and customer-specific requirements.
• Lead the development, monitoring, and verification of quality programs, including finished product standards, raw material specifications, and food safety process controls.
• Oversee specification controls to ensure raw materials, packaging, and finished products meet defined requirements and customer expectations.
• Ensure label compliance with FDA regulations, allergen declarations, ingredient statements, and nutritional accuracy.
• Audit and verify sanitation programs, ensuring proper cleaning and validation across all facilities.
• Partner with Plant Operations and Sanitation teams to ensure consistent compliance, while providing oversight, training, and verification.
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory inspections, and customer visits.
• Lead investigations and root cause analysis for customer complaints, deviations, and non-conformances.
• Provide training and coaching to site FSQA and operations staff on food safety, sanitation, labeling, and quality programs.
• Collaborate across all functions on product launches, specification approvals, and quality risk assessments.
• Monitor and analyze FSQA performance metrics across sites, identifying opportunities for improvement and ensuring corrective actions are implemented.
• Act as the subject matter expert on regulatory compliance, emerging food safety trends, and industry best practices.

Qualifications :

Compensation Range : $95,000 - $120,000 Reports to : Director / VP Operations Direct Reports : Quality Supervisors & Sanitation Supervisor

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, and other job-related qualifications / skills. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth and development.

The physical requirements are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the job's essential functions. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Ditsch USA, is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.