Technical and Compliance Manager

**Tec**hnical and Compliance Manager - Braeside/Dandenong locations - food industry**
- Fantastic career progression opportunity
- Leading bakery products manufacturer in the FMCG industry
- Circa $160K plus superannuation

**The Company**

Our client is a market leader in their industry, delivering innovative fresh bread products to the retail, food service, grocery, and convenience market. Due to planned business growth, we are seeking an experienced and passionate Technical and Compliance Manager to join the organisation.

**The Role**
Reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer, you will be responsible for planning and directing the daily management and coordination of the company’s Quality Assurance and OHS functions, ensuring the company achieves the highest possible product quality, and food safety standards to comply with all external / customer certification standards and applicable legislative requirements.

Key Responsibilities include:

- Proactively assess, determine, negotiate and agree on in-house quality procedures, standards and specifications based on all legislative, BRC, GMP, HACCP and customer requirements
- Regularly review the company’s Food Safety Programs to ensure accurate reflection of legislative and customer requirements
- Collaborate with the Production Team to define, implement and imbed QA procedures, standards and systems
- Specify raw material quality requirements for suppliers
- Actively oversee the company’s Food Safety and GMP audit program, ensuring resourcing is directed towards audit and remediation activity to facilitate full compliance and customer standards
- Ensure that the entire company complies with QA policies, procedures and standards at all times
- Proactively manage all third-party audits to ensure that appropriate remediation activity is specified for each non-conformance identified and that all agreed remediation deadlines are achieved
- Manage the Microbiology testing schedule for products, equipment and utilities and promptly investigate and action out of specification results
- Proactively manage, and support the training and development of QC, QA and Hygiene teams
- Prepare detailed reports for management and customers that detail QA audit activity, results and remediations, areas of particular QA attention, key projects etc. (as applicable)
- Accurately maintain the QA database and filing systems
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting of all non-conformances and remediation

**The Technical and Compliance Manager**

The successful Technical and Compliance Manager will bring to the role:

- Ten plus years QA management experience
- Extensive working knowledge of food quality and safety systems and standards
- Be collaborative and commercial
- A continuous improvement focus
- People management skills, experience in managing QC, QA and hygiene teams in a food production environment
- Leadership and professional development/training skills and experience
- Strong attention to detail, analytical capabilities

The leadership team are supportive, values driven and encourage a positive and high performance culture. Safety is paramount.

This business is not without its challenges but if you enjoy being part of a committed team of professionals in a growing business, please submit your CV and covering letter as a single document via the link on this site. If you use LinkedIn to apply, please ensure your account settings allow a complete profile to be uploaded.

Only applicants who are fully Vaccinated and with current unrestricted working rights in Australia will be considered.

Feel free to call Suzanne Whitmarsh should you have any questions on 0418 456 660.