(22/10/2025) Food & Beverage Lead Auditor

About Business Assurance

We help companies ensure compliance, build high-performing management systems, and meet competence needs within a wide range of industries. Our strong focus on research and innovation opens an array of opportunities, and allows you to engage in projects which develop next generation solutions, and manage their risk picture through our management system certification and training portfolios.

The F&B Auditor is a techno-commercial role responsible for leading the development of the F&B business, delivery of projects, ensuring service excellence for clients and playing an important role in the development of others within the team. You help clients implement, improve and demonstrate their commitment to international and local standards. You will get the opportunity to lead and develop our work on a wide range of Food and Beverage services from auditing, training services including product certification. This position reports to the National Resource & Training Manager.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be expected to lead and support the growth of our sales and delivery for a range of services and may have specialism and expertise in several of them, including:

- Supporting the sales team through technical advice and guidance.

- Training and capacity building services.

- Conducting 3rd party audits for various food safety schemes including, Quality Management System, and other specific scheme audits including Audit report writing.

- Key customer management and stakeholder engagement.

- Managing the qualifications of other team members in conjunction with Global Compliance Unit, other accredited bodies and with the Resource and Technical team.

- Enterprise risk management.

You will be expected to contribute to the growth of our business through the following activities:

- Proactively seeking to identify and understand customer needs and providing leads to the sales team.

- Leading projects, ensuring they are executed to clients’ expectations on time and on budget and to DNV quality standards.

- Leading and communicating effectively with your project teams and clients.

- Wellbeing: DNV understands the importance of physical and mental wellbeing and aligned with our value of caring for our people, we have a ‘Be Well’ program in place.

- Bonus opportunity: We believe it is important to reward our employees with an annual discretionary profit scheme or sales incentive scheme – depending on your role.

- Insurances: DNV covers permanent employees for life and total permanent disability insurance as well as salary continuance insurance to safeguard you within our DNV Superannuation scheme.

- Parental and long service leave: DNV has a generous parental leave and long service leave policy.

- Hybrid work: We offer a hybrid work model to foster our culture while providing you with working flexibility.

- Professional membership: We will support you with membership fees for your relevant governing body applicable to your position.

- Social activities: To foster our culture, we enjoy regular social get togethers.

* Benefits may vary based on position, tenure/contract/grade/level *

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

- Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Food Science or Technology or Academic qualifications relevant to food and beverage subject areas.

- Minimum 10-year experience in Quality Management System relevant to food and beverage, with 3rd-party auditing experience in food safety.

- Minimum 5-year experience in F&B sector, in different food industries.

- Qualifications in some of these schemes like BRC Food, BRC packaging, IFS, FSSC V5 (Food and Packaging), HACCP, ISO9001, ISO22000:2018, GMP Plus, FAMI-QS, Global Standard, etc, to name a few.

- Strong communication skills in English.

- Proven project and/or team leader, delivering service excellence.

- Ability to work in an international team, delivering and leading teams to produce high quality deliverables on time and on budget.

- Ability to lead multiple projects in parallel, often with conflicting demands and timelines.

- Able to clearly delegate tasks and provide sufficient guidance, support and feedback on performance in a constructive manner to Management.

Willingness to travel and work around Australia, New Zealand and other locations.

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