ABOUT US
As a rapidly growing world-class organisation with a global footprint spanning every step of the food journey – join us to create food the world loves to eat!
Our people are innovative, with a diversity of expertise, working together with our customers to create value at every opportunity.
We are constantly looking for problem solvers who combine creativity with passion in our quest in to deliver fresh, natural, and convenient food solutions across the globe.
Your future in food starts here | Quality Systems Coordinator
THE OPPORTUNITY
Location: Coominya, Queensland
The Quality System Coordinator plays a critical role in maintaining and improving the company’s Quality Management System (QMS) and ensuring workforce competency across all QA functions. This role supports operational compliance with regulatory, customer, and third-party standards (e.g. DAFF, Codex, North American, BRCGS, Costco, McDonald's, WQF).
ABOUT THE ROLE
You will have experience working within the Work Health and Safety Act and have exposure to implementing strategies to ensure compliance with other relevant rules, regulations, and legislative requirements in the workplace.
- Demonstrated experience with regulatory compliance and audits, particularly in export foods.
- Maintenance of Quality Manuals and associated documentation, and control distribution and amendments
- Maintaining programs such as QA/Aus-Meat and Department of Agriculture Approved Arrangements
- Review to make sure KGF complies with the legislative and operational requirements of the relevant Federal, State and Local Government Acts
- Undertaking periodic quality system audits and leading management reviews of the quality system, measuring program effectiveness, identifying corrective actions and ensuring their implementation
- Conducting investigations into quality issues as they arise, identifying corrective action to minimise impact
- Help ensure compliance with sampling and testing procedures, monitoring calibration of inspection and testing equipment to meet specified procedures
ABOUT YOU
- Minimum 3 years' experience in quality assurance within a food or meat processing environment.
- Maintain and continuously improve the Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring alignment with export regulations and customer standards.
- Support internal and external audits, including scheduling, preparation, participation, and close-out of findings.
- Ensure documentation (e.g., SOPs, forms, manuals) is up-to-date, accurate, and compliant with regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate document control processes, including version control, reviews, approvals, and communication of changes.
- Conduct regular gap assessments to identify compliance risks and areas for system improvement.
- Prepare documentation and staff for third-party and customer audits.
- Monitor compliance with internal audit schedules and escalate overdue or non-conforming actions.
- Support the development and closure of Corrective Action and Preventive Action (CAPA) plans.
- Complete statutory checks and audits in accordance with internal and external regulatory compliance requirements, including undertaking periodic quality system audits and assisting with management reviews of the quality system, measuring program effectiveness, identifying corrective actions and ensuring their implementation
- Monitor and review the ongoing implementation of quality systems as they relate to Kilcoy Global Foods, to ensure the quality and customer satisfaction of KGF products, together with satisfying the various statutory and regulatory requirements
- Assist Production Managers/Supervisors to make informed decisions based on a risk management approach to stop production, where required
- Develop QA solutions in partnership with the business to address organisational and industry challenges as they are anticipated or as they arise, with these Solutions being based on legislation and a risk management approach
- Review and analyse relevant data to provide reliable information to senior management on outcomes and results, demonstrating improvement in QA outcomes for the business
BENEFITS
- Full Time employment
- Access to discounted premium meat
- An organisation where cultural diversity is celebrated
- Access to discounted health insurance
This is a long-term career opportunity, working for an enterprise business with Corporate Offices on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. We have recorded business growth of 20% year on year with sales in excess of $1.8 billion. We are committed to building a work environment that fosters an agile plus flexible workplace and where employee wellbeing is paramount.
HOW TO APPLY
If you are looking to join a company that promotes innovation, is a leader in industry and champions success, then apply now.
We are an equal opportunity employer and make every effort to select the best qualified individual for the job based on job related qualifications and experiences. Some of the information we collect via your application form and resume is “personal” information as defined by the Privacy Act. All information provided via your application form and resume is treated as confidential.
