Costa Pty
Ltd Berry Category is Australia's largest berry producer with multiple sites
located across Australia. Costa grows and markets blueberries, raspberries,
strawberries and blackberries.
Costa's
berry category is proudly at the forefront of genetic and growing innovation.
We grow significant volumes of fruit to supply major retailers in the
country, so food quality and safety is paramount. In all that we grow, we're
committed to sustainable production and growing.
The
Tasmanian operation is looking for passionate Quality Assurance and Safety
Coordinator to join the Costa team. This is a permanent role based in
Tasmania.
The
role of Quality Assurance and Safety Coordinator provides direction and
practical support to the Berry Category in Tasmania regarding Food Safety and
Workplace Health and Safety procedures. This role reports to the Quality
Assurance and Safety Manager and plays a key role in ensuring that food safety
and health and safety matters are managed in line with relevant legislation,
company procedures and best practice on all Tasmanian sites.
As a part
of a fast-paced team, the Quality Assurance and
Safety Coordinator coordinates and implements the
operation of the food safety and workplace health and safety functions within
the business and drives a positive quality and safety culture. This role
provides guidance and support to operations, harvest and post-harvest
departments and has regular communication with all departments. The Quality
Assurance and Safety Coordinator is responsible for the day-to-day workplace
health and safety activities and contributes to maintaining the food safety
program. They support the line management team in achieving compliance to
external and company procedures, KPI's and legislative obligations through
coaching, training, administration, research, and encouragement. The duties and
responsibilities of this job are outlined below and may vary from time to time
in line with the needs of the business.
About the
opportunity:
You will be
responsible for the operation of the Food Safety and Work Health and Safety
functions within the Berry Category, across Northwest Tasmania. This role
provides guidance and support to operations, harvest and post-harvest
departments and has regular communication with all departments.
You will be
regularly out and about amongst our teams to drive a positive quality and
safety culture. This may include, supporting picking crews with quality
challenges, undertaking a risk assessment in our pack shed, or supporting with
an incident investigation amongst our farm operations teams. You will become a
trusted member of the operation and called upon to support a variety of
unpredictable situations daily.
During
harvest (October to April) work hours must be flexible to accommodate the
seasonal demand. This will include some early starts and weekend work. Outside
of peak season, working hours will be standard, Monday to Friday.
What we
offer:
* Permanent, Full-time
position + Base Salary + Superannuation
* Free Access to an
Employee Assistant Program
* Opportunities for
Learning, Development, and progression
* Opportunities for
travel
* Work-life Balance
* Full IT Kit provided
* Annual Performance
Review Process
* Pool Car for use during
work hours
In this
role you will be responsible for the following:
Food
Safety:
* Implement proactive
documentation changes; keep documentation systems up to date, controlled
and perform annual reviews.
* Conduct internal
audits, report incidents and audit findings in electronic systems.
* Food Safety Standards:
Develop understanding of Global Food Safety Initiative standards that the
site currently benchmarks such as Global GAP, Freshcare and HARPS.
* Product Quality:
Understanding of product defects and the effects on the end product and
ensuring that retail customer specifications are met.
* Conduct incident and
hazard monitoring, investigations, and root cause analysis.
* Risk assesses a variety
of situations to make critical decisions.
* Maintain an Internal
Audit, Sampling and Testing, Retention and Calibration Schedules.
* Provide strong and
consistent messaging and training to large groups of people from all
departments across the business.
* Assisting the team in
the management of HACCP and pre-requisite programs.
Work Health
and Safety:
* Support employees and
managers to achieve best practice Safety, Health and Environment by
contributing to the implementation of the safety management system and
processes.
* Be familiar with,
understand and adhere to Company OHS&W policies and procedures in line
with the standards of Costa Group and the requirements of the OH&S
Act.
* Work in accordance with
the policies and procedures of Costa Group, as amended from time to time.
* Contribute by making
positive suggestions on improvements to safe work practices.
* Conduct site safety
inspections as per the schedule, report outcomes and facilitate corrective
actions.
* Incident reporting and
investigations.
* Disseminating WHS
related information and educational materials to employees
* Provide input into the
continual improvement of Return to Work and Injury Management policies,
procedures, systems and processes.
* Workers Compensation
and return to work coordination
* Actively support injury
management and return to work processes and promote the health benefits of
good Return to Work outcomes.
* New Employee and
Contractor Safety Inductions
* Undertaking risk
assessments in collaboration with relevant department manager
* Developing and
reviewing SWP's in collaboration with relevant departments and other
regions within the Berry category.
* Liaise with medical
practitioners and allied health professionals to achieve the best outcomes
for injured workers.
About You:
The
successful candidate could have a strong background in both areas, or just one
of them. For the right candidate, we are willing to support training in either
quality assurance or work health and safety dependent upon previous experience.
We are
looking for someone who has experience/qualifications in:
* Work Health and Safety
(Tasmania specific experience is beneficial), and/or
* Workers' compensation
legislation and return to work coordination, and/or
* Quality Assurance and
Food Safety/HACCP qualifications
In
addition, we are looking for candidates with the following:
* Strong literacy and
communication skills including experience with SharePoint, Microsoft Word
and Excel.
* Qualifications in First
Aid and CPR (desired but not essential).
* Strong knowledge of
internal auditing and the application of corrective and preventative
actions.
* Experience in provide
strong and consistent messaging and training to large groups of people.
* Understanding of
quality and safety IT systems such as, Sky trust, Caramba & SharePoint
administration.
* Ability to balance
conflicting priorities.
* A solution focused
attitude and a willingness to learn.
* Driver's license.
For more
information on this role, please contact the berries HR team through
Applications
will close once the right candidate has been selected, so if you wish to be
considered, apply now