Quality Assurance Officer

Cordina Foods; Central Coast; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cordina Foods seeks a QA Officer for its Wyong manufacturing site. The role operates on a 24-hour rotating shift pattern, supporting the Technical/Quality teams to safeguard food safety and quality across all processes.

Qualifications include a tertiary degree in Food Science/Technology/Nutrition, HACCP/GMP experience, strong communication, and the ability to work independently within a collaborative team.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Nutrition, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Monitor hygiene, GMP, food safety, quality and plant standards; provide corrective feedback.

Skills

Quality Assurance

GMP Compliance

HACCP

Internal Audit

Communication

MS Office

Education

Food Science/Technology/Nutrition degree

Tools

Digitalised systems

Job description

Food manufacturing based in central coast – Wyong

Full-Time role

A long-term rewarding opportunity with an opportunity for career progression

About the Company:

The Cordina Group is highly awarded and respected within the food industry, Cordina has built a reputation around partnership, stability, innovation, trust, agility and most importantly, always thinking differently.

Cordina is all about creating bespoke solutions designed purposefully around our customers’ needs and their brands – in fact, there have now been four generations of Cordina putting the customers brand first. It’s the service we offer that’s the difference. Our customers can have the whole NPD solution done for them or work in collaboration to bring their new product to life!

Our mission is to understand our customer and solve their problems by treating customer brands as our own. With 80 years of experience, Cordina continue to bring new concepts to the market and assist our customers to create their own unique point of difference.

Opened in 2014, the state-of-the-art food processing facility at Wyong is the first of its kind to be built in Australia, featuring cutting edge standards of innovation and techniques in the preparation of ready-to-eat chicken and meat products.

About the role:

An excellent opportunity currently exists for a QA Officer to join the Cordina Technical team at Wyong. The incumbent will be required to work on rotating shifts that could cover day, afternoon and through the night shifts in our 24 hour operation.

Responsibilities of this position include –

Reporting to the Technical Manager, the responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to the following:

Monitor performance of hygiene, GMP, food safety, quality and plant standards on a continuous basis and provide corrective feedback where required.

Verify production output meets Specifications including compliance to quality and food safety control points, labelling compliance, and end product assessment checks.

Confirm compliance of raw materials and packaging against documented specifications.

Complete Quality Assurance testing inclusive of supporting line trials during NPD testing, ensuring all measurements and monitoring is carried out in line with parameters set.

Collect and record data according to HACCP and Quality System.

Conduct quality audits and pre-operational site inspections in a methodical and detailed manner to verify that the organizations' food safety program is compliant.

Assisting in managing customer complaints including investigation and report writing.

Carry out production level training on food safety & quality topics, as required

Ensure internal audit follow-ups to non-conformances are completed in line with deadlines set and assist with action plans, as required

Engage with an evolving foods safety and quality culture landscape, acting in support of all internal customers to the Quality Team including but not limited to Operations, Hygiene, NPD and Maintenance Teams.

To be successful in this position you will bring:

Tertiary qualifications in Food Science, Food Technology, Food Nutrition, or related discipline

Previous experience in food quality assurance in protein and candidates with high risk / high care exposure are highly regarded.

Internal Audit experience

Self-Motivated and a Quick Learner

Team Player, with the ability to work unsupervised

Mature minded

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Advanced MS Office skills, previous work with digitalised systems will be advantageous.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.