Quality & Food Safety Partner — GMP & Continuous Improvement

Don; Castlemaine; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Study Assistance

Health and wellness initiatives

Discounted products

Training and development programs

Global career opportunities

Volunteer days

Job summary

DON, a leading Australian meat and diversified food manufacturer, is seeking a Quality Business Partner to join the onsite Quality team in Castlemaine. You will partner with Operations Leadership to embed food safety, GMP and quality across a key manufacturing stream, ensuring product safety and compliance.

In this hands-on role you will manage day-to-day quality priorities, respond to issues, support audits, traceability and continuous improvement, and provide practical training to raise

Qualifications

• Experience in a quality role within food manufacturing, ideally across smallgoods, dairy, beverage or perishable FMCG.
• Sound knowledge of food safety, GMP, HACCP, quality systems and relevant regulatory, certification and customer standards.
• Experience supporting audits, traceability, product holds, non-conformances and quality documentation.

Responsibilities

• Partner with operational leaders to embed food safety, quality and GMP best practice across the value stream.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, certification, customer and internal standards; identify risks and drive practical solutions.
• Manage product holds and releases, supplier and ingredient non-conformances, contamination incidents and escalated quality issues.
• Prepare for and support site, certification and customer audits; conduct regular GMP audits and close-out actions.
• Support traceability activities, quality documentation and reporting against site targets.
• Provide quality support for new product development, factory trials and cross-functional projects.
• Develop and deliver practical training across food safety, quality assurance, hygiene and sanitation.
• Lead root-cause investigations and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Quality role experience

Food safety

Audits & traceability

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Team-first

MS Excel/Word

SAP/quality systems

Continuous improvement

Onsite capability

Education

Food Science degree

Microbiology degree

Tools

SAP

Quality systems

Job description

DON, a leading Australian meat and diversified food manufacturer, is seeking a Quality Business Partner to join the onsite Quality team in Castlemaine. You will partner with Operations Leadership to embed food safety, GMP and quality across a key manufacturing stream, ensuring product safety and compliance.

In this hands-on role you will manage day-to-day quality priorities, respond to issues, support audits, traceability and continuous improvement, and provide practical training to raise