Position
Position Title: Quality Supervisor Ballarat Prepared Foods
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41474
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About The Role
This is a 12-month fixed term, on-site role based at our Ballarat Prepared Foods Plant. As Quality Supervisor, you will oversee the day-to-day Food Safety and Quality operations, ensuring products meet McCain's standards and regulatory requirements. You'll manage compliance, release and hold processes for raw materials, and drive continuous improvement within the plant. The role is vital in safeguarding product integrity and supporting McCain's vision through proactive leadership in quality and food safety operations.
What You'll Be Doing
* Oversee release and hold processes for raw materials.
* Ensure compliance against specifications and supplier COA's.
* Raise non-conformance/reject reports as needed.
* Maintain and update procedures, work instructions, forms, and SOPs.
* Ensure raw material sampling plans and QC checklists/files are current.
* Participate in internal and external audits, including follow-ups.
* Ensure finished product traceability within and post-manufacturing.
* Provide quality support to manufacturing and participate in HACCP team.
* Identify and execute improvement opportunities in quality and food safety.
* Attend production, OHS, shift change, and QC meetings as quality representative.
* Serve as Infinity & SAP Quality super user.
* Other duties as required.
What You'll Need To Be Successful
* Experience building positive working relationships and contributing to a team.
* Self-motivation and the ability to work independently when needed.
* Strong organisational and communication skills.
* Flexibility to adapt to new challenges in a fast-paced manufacturing setting.
* An understanding of workplace safety standards.
* Confidence in analysing information and preparing reports.
* Experience in food manufacturing, food safety, or quality assurance would be an advantage.
* Supervisory experience and/or training background, while not essential, will be viewed favourably.
* Qualifications in Food Science or a related field are preferred but not required.
* Familiarity with SAP or similar systems, and advanced Microsoft Office skills, will be helpful.
About The Team
You'll join the Quality department at Ballarat Prepared Foods Plant, reporting to the Quality Control Manager. The team drives quality and food safety, collaborating closely with manufacturing and other business units to uphold McCain's standards and continuous improvement culture.
About McCain
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Leadership Principles
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain Experience
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Quality & Food Safety
Division: ANZ
Department: QC - PF
Location(s): AU - Australia : Victoria : Ballarat
Company: McCain Foods (Aust) Pty.
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