Petfood Ingredients: Quality & Tech Lead

Inghams Enterprises; Somerville; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Inghams Enterprises in Somerville (VIC) seeks a Technical and Quality Specialist for petfood ingredients. You will own the quality program across multiple sites, lead HACCP, and drive new product development from concept to scale-up.

Responsibilities include reviewing quality data, managing customer relationships, and ensuring regulatory compliance. You will coordinate with third-party partners and contribute to PFIAA committees as the technical lead.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a quality management strategy.
• Experience managing customer relationships and educating customers.
• Meat/protein industry experience preferred.
• Proven experience implementing and monitoring Quality Management Systems.
• Inclusive leadership with collaborative style.
• Knowledge of food production and food safety.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the quality program across multiple sites.
• Develop and review HACCP plans, quality manuals, and documentation.
• Review quality test results and verify conformance with specifications.
• Investigate customer complaints and manage corrective actions.
• Lead NPD for wet petfood and AFB from concept to scale-up.
• Develop least-cost palatant formulations and manage ingredient pricing.
• Maintain ingredient palatant/wet petfood databases for revisions.
• Manage export documentation for flavourings and PCP products across sites.

Skills

Quality management

Customer relationships

Meat industry experience

Quality Management Systems

Collaborative leadership

Food safety

Stakeholder management

Education

Tertiary degree in Food Science or related

Job description

Inghams Enterprises in Somerville (VIC) seeks a Technical and Quality Specialist for petfood ingredients. You will own the quality program across multiple sites, lead HACCP, and drive new product development from concept to scale-up.

Responsibilities include reviewing quality data, managing customer relationships, and ensuring regulatory compliance. You will coordinate with third-party partners and contribute to PFIAA committees as the technical lead.