Honestly Riverina operates a regional rice milling and food manufacturing facility in Jerilderie, NSW, supplying domestic and export markets. The Quality Assurance Officer role is critical to maintaining food safety compliance, product quality, and operational continuity in a regional location where access to experienced quality assurance professionals is limited.
The Quality Assurance Officer is responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing quality assurance, food safety, and workplace safety systems across rice milling, packing, storage, and dispatch operations. The role requires independent judgement, technical knowledge of food manufacturing processes, and continuous oversight to ensure compliance with regulatory, customer, and export requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, implement, and monitor quality assurance and quality control systems.
- Monitor compliance with food safety programs, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and workplace health and safety requirements.
- Conduct routine and investigative quality inspections of raw materials, in‑process milling stages, and finished goods.
- Identify, investigate, and report quality non‑conformances and safety hazards, determine root causes, and coordinate corrective and preventive actions.
- Analyse quality and production data to identify trends, deviations, and improvement opportunities.
- Validate revised quality standards through ongoing monitoring and data comparison.
- Maintain, administer, and improve internal digital quality systems.
- Ensure accuracy, traceability, and retention of quality and safety records.
Qualifications, Systems and Competencies
Bachelor's Degree or at least five (5) years experience in a related field; Food safety management systems and quality assurance procedures; HACCP implementation and monitoring; workplace health and safety hazard identification and risk monitoring; quality analysis tools, testing methods, and data interpretation; digital quality systems administration and data analysis; audit preparation, documentation control, and reporting.
Position Requirements
This is a full‑time, ongoing position essential to the continued operation of the regional rice milling facility. The role is located at the Mill facility in regional southern NSW and supports long‑term food safety compliance, customer and export requirements, and business sustainability. It involves skilled professional duties requiring technical knowledge, analytical capability, and independent decision‑making in a food manufacturing environment.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: Up to $76,550.00 per year
Work Location: In person
