Quality Assurance Manager

3 days ago

Canning Vale, Australia KB Seafood Company Full time

KB Seafood Co is one of Australia's largest seafood companies and one of the most awarded & successful food service operators. The business employs over 320+ fantastic people with a humble/inclusive culture. We provide over 30,000 tonnes of seafood annually to leading foodservice operators and major supermarkets.

Our brands include our own KB Seafood Co, Just Caught Frozen Seafood, retailer brands, and we have over 2,700 active products in the market.

**About the Role**:
Reporting to the National Quality Manager, the role is to oversee the activity of the food safety and quality team by developing, implementing, and maintaining the food safety, quality and culture systems program on site to ensure all requirements are met for our customers, industry, and from a regulatory perspective.

This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to join KB Seafood in this site leadership role. This will be an exciting and challenging role where you can really make your mark in establishing a strong food safety and quality culture from day one.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Lead, mentor and develop small quality team.
- Develop, implement, and maintain food safety and quality systems.
- Provide input to the business strategy with the intention of strengthening the Food safety and quality Culture of the business.
- Ensure all statutory and regulatory regulations are met (Health Act, FSANZ, DAWR, Export)
- Prepare for and lead all internal and 3rd party audits and coordinate corrective action responses within required timeframes
- Be involved in and walk the site to ensure effective food safety inspections, internal audit, GMP audits, etc
- Management and trending of the customer complaints, incidents, near misses including daily monitoring of complaints to ensure corrective actions are promptly introduced onto the production floor.
- Ensure production records are verified regularly with any actions carried out promptly.
- Conduct & organise training for a wide range of QA / Food Safety / Hygiene / HACCP topics
- Be involved with and manage the HACCP system, site security and food fraud controls (TACCP/VACCP).
- Conduct and work through Internal audit program to ensure continuous improvement.
- Assist the NPD department with new product development, production trials of new products, product improvements and new processes.
- Ensure quality control procedures are achieved and maintained.
- Develop and verify plant hygiene standards by ensuring the manual and sanitation standard operating procedures are being followed by working closely with the cleaning teams.
- Establishing and building relationships with suppliers & customers.

**Knowledge, skills & qualities**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Food Science or similar discipline
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a food manufacturing environment involving QA, HACCP, Food Safety & GMP
- 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance Management
- MSC/ASC; BAP; RSPO - Sustainability
- Food Safety Auditing - Internal and External (CFMSR requirement)
- Seafood manufacturing experience (desirable)
- HACCP Qualification
- Intermediate MS Office skills

To apply, Click the APPLY now button and upload your resume along with a cover letter. We would love to hear from you.

**External Agencies please note**:**We request you do not reach out or send unsolicited resumes to HR or any Hiring Managers within our business. KB Seafood Co will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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