At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead food safety and quality strategy in a dynamic food production environment.
- Company: Join a top Australian food business committed to quality and sustainability.
- Benefits: Permanent full-time role with relocation assistance and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a culture that values innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on food safety and quality in a leading organisation.
- Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Food Science or related fields, with extensive leadership experience.
The predicted salary is between 121500 - 148500 $ per year.
About the Company & Role
- Join a leading Australian food production and export business recognised for its commitment to quality, innovation, sustainability, and operational excellence.
- This senior leadership opportunity will see you take ownership of the organisation's food safety, quality, compliance, and product integrity strategy across a complex manufacturing and supply chain environment.
- Reporting to executive leadership, you will provide strategic oversight of food safety and quality governance while driving a culture of continuous improvement and accountability across the business.
- You will act as the key technical authority for food safety and quality, ensuring products consistently meet regulatory, certification, customer, export, and internal requirements.
- Based near Mildura, relocation assistance provided
- Permanent position, full-time hours
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the organisation's food safety and quality strategy, governance framework, risk management processes, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure food safety and quality systems remain compliant with all legal, regulatory, customer, export, and certification requirements.
- Lead the identification, assessment, escalation, and management of food safety and quality risks across the business.
- Oversee quality performance reporting, management reviews, and the delivery of strategic improvement plans.
- Drive customer quality performance through effective complaint management, trend analysis, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.
- Establish and maintain supplier, grower, and service provider quality frameworks, including approval, monitoring, and performance management processes.
- Lead product recall and withdrawal governance, crisis preparedness activities, and responses to significant food safety or quality incidents.
- Oversee audit and certification programs, ensuring effective management of findings, corrective actions, and ongoing compliance.
- Establish and monitor key quality performance measures including audit outcomes, non-conformances, customer complaints, waste, rework, product downgrades, and cost of poor quality.
- Utilise risk and performance data to identify opportunities for operational improvement and enhanced product integrity.
- Champion cross-functional initiatives that strengthen process capability, traceability, customer outcomes, and business performance.
- Ensure food safety and quality requirements are embedded into strategic projects, capital investments, new products, and market expansion activities.
About You
- Tertiary qualifications in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Quality Management, or a related discipline.
- Extensive leadership experience within food manufacturing, FMCG, food processing, agricultural processing, or a similarly regulated environment.
- Strong knowledge of SQF, BRCGS, or equivalent GFSI-recognised food safety and quality management systems.
- Experience within nuts, horticulture, grain, agricultural, or export-focused food processing environments will be highly regarded.
- Demonstrated expertise in food legislation, export compliance, traceability, product recalls, allergen management, food defence, and food fraud controls.
- Proven experience leading audits, certification programs, corrective action initiatives, and significant food safety or quality incidents.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience partnering with senior leadership teams.
- Highly developed communication and analytical skills, with the ability to present complex information to executive and governance forums.
- A proven track record of developing high-performing teams and fostering a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
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Head of Quality & Safety in Mildura employer: Evolve Scientific
Join a leading pharmaceutical company in the Southeast suburbs of Melbourne, where you will be part of a dynamic team dedicated to quality and compliance. With a strong focus on employee development and a culture that promotes continuous improvement, this role offers meaningful opportunities for growth in a supportive environment. Enjoy the benefits of full-time hours, a collaborative work culture, and the chance to make a significant impact in the pharmaceutical industry.
We think you need these skills to ace Head of Quality & Safety in Mildura
Food Safety Management
Quality Assurance
Regulatory Compliance
Risk Management
Continuous Improvement
Supplier Quality Management
Crisis Management
