Quality Assurance Manager
Visa sponsorship
Manufacturing · Newcastle, NSW, Australia · Full-Time · Discussed at interview · Visa: Employer sponsored
Audit days hold no fear for the right Quality Assurance Manager, and a food processing site in Newcastle, New South Wales, wants someone who keeps it permanently ready for them. You would take charge of the quality and food safety systems, maintain the Approved Arrangements and lead a QA team in a regulated production environment.
The job covers internal, customer and regulator audits, root-cause investigations with corrective and preventive actions, traceability exercises and mock recalls, and pre-operational and hygiene checks, working closely with production and management. Visa sponsorship is available for a suitable overseas candidate. QA leads from UK food manufacturing will recognise the rhythm of the work.
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Key Responsibilities
- Act as the site's senior voice on food safety and quality assurance
- Make sure the quality management and food safety systems are used properly day to day
- Update the Approved Arrangements and the compliance routines around them, keeping the plant within Australian food safety and regulatory rules
- Organise internal, customer and regulator audits and keep the site audit-ready year-round
- Look into incidents, non-conformances and process failures, and push corrective and preventive actions to completion
- Run traceability tests, verification checks and mock recalls, and keep quality records and data complete
- Check production against the agreed standards and lead pre-operational, hygiene and process verification
- Steer the QA team's technical work, coach people across the site and grow a strong food safety culture
- Recommend and deliver better quality systems, processes and controls, solving problems together with production and management
- Uphold animal welfare requirements and the applicable industry standards
Requirements & Eligibility
- Qualified in Food Science, Food Technology, Agricultural Science, Quality Management or a comparable discipline
- A career so far in quality assurance, food safety, compliance or food manufacturing
- Applies HACCP principles and food safety management systems in practice
- Has supported or led quality, customer or regulatory audits
- Gets to the root cause of non-conformances, fixes them effectively and has managed corrective and preventive actions
- Well versed in quality paperwork, verification and traceability procedures
- Keeps standards high where production is regulated
- Has supervised, coordinated or developed quality people
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills, and communicates confidently with stakeholders, production and senior management
- Food processing or export industry experience is advantageous
- Experience with meat processing, DAFF compliance or Approved Arrangements is highly regarded
- International qualifications and professional experience that are relevant will be considered
- Committed to meeting Australian workplace, food safety and compliance standards
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