La Tosca Foods is an Australian food manufacturer looking for an experienced, hands-on Quality Assurance Manager to lead food safety and quality across our site. Reporting to the General Manager and Operations Manager, you will own our food safety and quality system from incoming ingredients through to finished product, and keep the site audit-ready at all times.
What you’ll be doing
- Maintaining and improving our HACCP-based food safety and quality system
- Carrying out daily floor checks covering hygiene, GMP, critical control points, labels and allergen controls
- Releasing finished product, managing product on hold and checking incoming ingredients and packaging
- Leading certification, customer and regulator audits and closing out corrective actions
- Investigating customer complaints and non-conformances and reporting on trends
- Managing supplier approvals, product specifications, testing programs,
traceability and mock recalls
- Training production staff in food safety and leading the QA team
What you’ll bring
- A degree or diploma in Food Science, Food Technology or a related field
- 3+ years in quality assurance in food manufacturing, including experience leading a team
- Knowledge of HACCP, GMP, the FSANZ Food Standards Code and a GFSI standard [SQF or BRCGS]
- Experience hosting certification and major retailer audits
- Transparent communication skills and the confidence to make decisions on the factory floor
- Full Australian working rights