- Join a leading Australian food production and export business recognised for its commitment to quality, innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence.
- This senior leadership opportunity will see you take ownership of the organisation's food safety, quality, compliance, and product integrity strategy across a complex manufacturing and supply chain environment.
- Reporting to executive leadership, you will provide strategic oversight of food safety and quality governance while driving a culture of continuous improvement and accountability across the business.
- You will act as the key technical authority for food safety and quality, ensuring products consistently meet regulatory, certification, customer, export, and internal requirements.
- Based near Mildura, relocation assistance provided
- Permanent position, full time hours

Responsibilities:

- Develop and lead the organisation's food safety and quality strategy, governance framework, risk management processes, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure food safety and quality systems remain compliant with all legal, regulatory, customer, export and certification requirements.
- Lead the identification, assessment, escalation, and management of food safety and quality risks across the business.
- Oversee quality performance reporting, management reviews, and the delivery of strategic improvement plans.
- Drive customer quality performance through effective complaint management, trend analysis, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
- Establish and maintain supplier, grower, and service provider quality frameworks, including approval, monitoring, and performance management processes.




- Lead product recall and withdrawal governance, crisis preparedness activities, and responses to significant food safety or quality incidents.
- Oversee audit and certification programs, ensuring effective management of findings, corrective actions, and ongoing compliance.
- Establish and monitor key quality performance measures including audit outcomes, non-conformances, customer complaints, waste, rework, product downgrades, and cost of poor quality.
- Utilise risk and performance data to identify opportunities for operational improvement and enhanced product integrity.
- Champion cross-functional initiatives that strengthen process capability, traceability, customer outcomes, and your business performance.

About You

- Tertiary qualifications in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Quality Management, or a related discipline.
- Extensive leadership experience within food manufacturing, FMCG, food processing, agricultural processing, or a similarly regulated environment.
- Strong knowledge of SQF, BRCGS, or equivalent GFSI-recognised food safety and quality management systems.
- Experience within nuts, horticulture, grain, agricultural, or export-focused food processing environments will be highly regarded.
- Demonstrated expertise in food legislation, export compliance, traceability, product recalls, allergen management, food defence, and food fraud controls.
- Proven experience leading audits, certification programs, corrective action initiatives, and significant food safety or quality incidents.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience partnering with senior leadership teams.

Head of Quality & Safety Robinvale, VIC, AU

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📌 Head Of Quality & Safety (Mildura)
🏢 Evolve Scientific
📍 Mildura