Technical & CI Leader — Food Safety & Ops Improvement

Noumi Limited; Sydney, Greater Shepparton; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

Quarterly Product Allowance

Wellbeing Support

Salary Packaging Options

Job summary

Noumi Limited is seeking a technically strong leader to drive group-wide standards, food safety and continuous improvement across manufacturing sites. You’ll work with Quality, Operations, Engineering, R&D and NPD to resolve complex issues and boost product quality and efficiency.

The role focuses on developing standards, strengthening HACCP practices and leading investigations, with opportunities to standardise processes across multiple sites globally.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Food Science, Food Technology, Dairy Science, Microbiology, Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience within food manufacturing, dairy, beverage or FMCG.
• Demonstrated leadership experience across technical, food safety, quality or continuous improvement functions.
• Strong knowledge of HACCP, food safety risk management, validation and verification.
• Experience investigating complex product, process and microbiological issues.
• Proven ability to lead root-cause analysis and continuous improvement projects through to implementation.
• Experience working collaboratively with Operations, Quality, Engineering, R&D and other business functions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and consistent application of technical and food safety standards across our manufacturing sites.
• Strengthen food safety culture, HACCP programs and risk management practices.
• Provide technical expertise in investigating and resolving complex product, process and microbiological issues.
• Lead root-cause investigations and implement sustainable corrective and preventative actions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing product defects, complaints, rework, waste and quality-related losses.
• Support technical risk assessments, validation and verification activities for new products, process changes and capital projects.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve manufacturing capability, product quality and operational performance.
• Identify opportunities to standardise processes and share best practices across sites.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Root-cause analysis

Continuous improvement

Education

Tertiary qualification in Food Science, Food Technology, Dairy Science, Microbiology, Engineering or related discipline

Job description

Noumi Limited is seeking a technically strong leader to drive group-wide standards, food safety and continuous improvement across manufacturing sites. You’ll work with Quality, Operations, Engineering, R&D and NPD to resolve complex issues and boost product quality and efficiency.

The role focuses on developing standards, strengthening HACCP practices and leading investigations, with opportunities to standardise processes across multiple sites globally.