Quality Assurance - Food Safety Officer - Meat Works
Key QA role in a local, family-run meat processing business
Secure full-time hours, Monday to Friday
Hands-on role with real ownership of food safety
About us
Crows Nest Meatworks is a locally owned meat processing business on the Darling Downs, supplying beef / lamb / pork / goat to butchers, wholesalers and retail customers across South East Queensland. We’re proud of the quality of our product and the team behind it, and we’re looking for a reliable QA skilled to help keep our standards high.
The role
Reporting to the Plant Manager / General Manager you’ll be responsible for day-to-day food safety and quality across the plant, from livestock receival through to dispatch. You’ll work closely with the production floor, so we need someone who is as comfortable in boots and whites as they are with paperwork.
What you’ll be doing
- Running and maintaining our HACCP-based food safety program
- Carrying out daily pre-op and operational hygiene checks
- Monitoring carcase and product quality, temperatures and chilling
- Collecting samples for microbiological testing (e.g. ESAM) and following up results
- Keeping accurate QA records and preparing for internal and external audits, including Safe Food Queensland
- Ensuring compliance with AS 4696 and relevant regulatory requirements
- Handling non-conformances, corrective actions and customer complaints
- Training staff on hygiene, food safety and good manufacturing practices
- Helping maintain animal welfare, traceability and labelling standards
About you
- Previous QA or food safety experience, ideally in meat processing or another food manufacturing environment
- Working knowledge of HACCP and AS 4696.
- A qualification in food science, food safety, meat processing (e.g. Cert III/IV in Meat Processing – Quality Assurance) or similar is highly regarded
- Strong attention to detail and good record-keeping habits
- Confident communicator who can work with production staff and management
- Comfortable working in cold, wet and physically demanding conditions
- Current driver’s licence and reliable transport (Crows Nest is a regional location)