Product quality manager - seafood

At Tassal Group, we are dedicated to "Sustainably Feeding Tomorrow." With over 35 years of aquaculture experience, we focus on providing healthy, sustainable, and nutritious food, including salmon, prawn, and barramundi. We are committed to producing accessible food, supporting communities, and delivering strong economic results, all while prioritising sustainability to ensure a prosperous, healthy planet for future generations.

Based at our Lidcombe processing site and reporting to the National Quality Manager, you will work alongside our passionate production teams and the broader business to help produce seafood we are truly proud of.

• Lead alongside operations by fostering accountability and an interdependent quality culture that protects our people, our consumers, and our brand.
• Drive the site's food safety management through HACCP, prerequisite programs, Quality KPIs, and compliance to the quality management system.
• Drive continuous improvement in the Assurance space and support other initiatives and projects across the business.
• Collaborate with relevant teams during product development including technical support and trials.
• Provide hands‐on leadership, coaching and development for the onsite Quality Partner.

We're looking for an individual whose partnering style is practical, collaborative and pragmatic. You enjoy immersing yourself in the operation, are self‐motivated, proactive, and energised by opportunity. You bring a minimum of 2 years in a similar leadership role, with external HACCP training, internal auditor training, and proficiency with Microsoft Suites.

• A track record of building relationships and influencing key partners resulting in a high‐level accountability and an interdependent culture.
• Senior quality experience in the food industry (chilled, short‐shelf‐life, ready‐to‐eat food highly desirable).
• A passion for working alongside operations and sharing ownership of product quality, improvement opportunities and management of risk.

Above all, we want someone who enjoys a challenge, loves what they do, and has a little fun along the way.

• Bonus paid day off for your birthday
• Regular career progression discussions
• Workplace health & wellbeing support for you and your family
• Deliciously discounted seafood

Our people each contribute in different ways, embracing our business values and harnessing our can do – safely culture with purpose and intent. Our shared values are an essential part of our business culture, they define us. They underpin and guide our commitment, attitude, how we work and the quality of our products. We are passionate, we achieve together, we own it and we can do it safely.