Our client is a well-established national food manufacturer producing fresh products for leading retail and foodservice customers.

This is a senior site role for someone who is comfortable on the production floor and in the audit room. You will lead a small quality team and work alongside site operations every day, with support from the national technical function.

What You'll Be Doing

- Leading, coaching and developing the site quality team.
- Chairing the site HACCP team and running the monthly quality meeting.
- Delivering food safety training on site and keeping training records up to date.
- Working closely with production leaders to resolve quality issues quickly and put effective corrective actions in place.
- Audits and compliance
- Preparing for and hosting certification and customer audits.
- Running the internal audit program to schedule.
- Making sure calibration, verification and monitoring activities are completed on time.
- Reviewing product and environmental testing results and acting on any trends or non-conformances.
- Specifications, suppliers and complaints




- Keeping product specifications and recipe documentation accurate and current.
- Managing the site's approved supplier program.
- Investigating customer and consumer complaints and product rejections through to close-out.

What You'll Bring

- A tertiary qualification in food science, food technology or a related discipline.
- At least three years in a quality role in food manufacturing. Experience with protein or meat products is highly regarded.
- Sound knowledge of HACCP and GFSI-benchmarked certification standards.
- Confidence interpreting data and explaining it to people at all levels.
- The ability to lead a team and influence production staff without direct authority.
- Sound judgement, good organisation and transparent written communication.

Hours

Monday to Friday, with occasional extra hours around audits.

Our client welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds.

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📌 Site Quality Assurance Manager (Parramatta)
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📍 Parramatta