Quality Assurance Manager
Visa sponsorship
Manufacturing · Newcastle, NSW, Australia · Full-Time · Discussed at interview · Visa: Employer sponsored
This Quality Assurance Manager vacancy, based in Newcastle, puts you in charge of quality, food safety and compliance for a long-running food processing operation in New South Wales. You would own the quality system, make sure the site is ready for any audit and steer a QA team in tightly regulated production.
Expect a diary of audits, corrective and preventive actions, traceability checks and mock recalls, along with regular problem-solving alongside production and management colleagues. Sponsorship for a visa is open to a suitable overseas candidate.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead site food safety and quality assurance
- Maintain effective quality and food safety management systems
- Update Approved Arrangements and strengthen related compliance
- Meet Australian regulatory and food safety obligations
- Plan internal, customer and regulatory audits and maintain readiness
- Investigate incidents and process non-conformances and close corrective and preventive actions
- Conduct traceability exercises, mock recalls and verification programs
- Maintain complete records, compliance data and quality documents
- Monitor production against standards
- Lead pre-operational, hygiene and process verification
- Direct and develop QA staff
- Promote staff ownership and food-safety culture
- Improve controls, systems and processes
- Resolve quality issues with production and management; Support animal welfare and applicable industry standards
Requirements & Eligibility
- A qualification in Food Science, Food Technology, Agricultural Science, Quality Management or a comparable discipline
- Quality assurance, compliance, food safety or food manufacturing experience
- Practical HACCP and food-safety system knowledge
- Experience leading or supporting customer, regulatory or quality audits
- Root-cause investigation and effective non-conformance remedies
- Corrective and preventive action management
- Knowledge of verification, traceability and quality documentation
- Capacity to maintain standards in regulated production
- Previous supervision, coordination or development of quality staff
- Strong analysis and problem-solving
- Confident stakeholder communication with production and senior leaders
- Food processing or export experience is advantageous
- Meat processing, DAFF compliance or Approved Arrangements experience is highly regarded
- Relevant international qualifications and professional experience will be considered; Commitment to Australian safety, workplace and compliance standards
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