Senior Quality & Compliance Lead, Food Manufacturing

Sharp and Carter; Melbourne; Presencial; AUD 110.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Sharp and Carter is seeking a Quality Compliance Manager for the Melbourne site to lead quality and food safety across operations. The role balances technical QA expertise with commercial focus, working with production teams and senior leadership to uphold certifications and respond to customer expectations.

You will drive HACCP and allergen programs, manage audits, complaints and CAPAs, and mentor the quality team to build a strong quality culture while supporting growth.

Formación

• Senior quality experience in high-volume food manufacturing.
• Experience with SQF or FSSC 22000 certifications.
• Strong HACCP knowledge and leading certification audits.
• Experience with customer or retailer audits.
• Knowledge of food safety legislation, allergen management, traceability, recalls.
• Experience managing complaints, root cause analysis and CAPAs.
• Supplier quality, GMP, sanitation, foreign matter controls.
• Commercial awareness and cost of quality.
• Strong communication and managing challenging conversations.
• Hands-on approach with production teams.
• Experience coaching and building quality culture.
• Ability to balance technical and commercial priorities.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain food safety and quality systems, certifications and audits.
• Lead customer audits and quality meetings.
• Manage complaints, non-conformances and CAPAs.
• Oversee HACCP, allergen management, traceability and recalls.
• Collaborate with production to maintain standards.
• Identify process improvements to reduce waste and cost of quality.
• Handle difficult customer conversations with facts.
• Develop and maintain SOPs for consistency.
• Coach and mentor the quality team.
• Build quality ownership across the site.

Conocimientos

Senior quality experience

HACCP knowledge

Allergen management

Traceability

Root cause analysis

Communication skills

Commercial awareness

Cost of quality

GMP

Supplier quality

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Food Science/QA

Descripción del empleo

Sharp and Carter is seeking a Quality Compliance Manager for the Melbourne site to lead quality and food safety across operations. The role balances technical QA expertise with commercial focus, working with production teams and senior leadership to uphold certifications and respond to customer expectations.

You will drive HACCP and allergen programs, manage audits, complaints and CAPAs, and mentor the quality team to build a strong quality culture while supporting growth.