Quality Assurance Officer

About the role

Kinrise is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Officer to join its Quality team in the snackfoods business. Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager, you will help maintain and improve food safety and quality standards across the manufacturing site.

Key responsibilities

• Support and promote food safety, quality, and compliance standards across the site.
• Conduct product inspections, GMP audits, verification activities and quality checks to ensure compliance with HACCP, customer and regulatory requirements.
• Investigate complaints, non‑conformances and quality issues, implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• Maintain and review quality documentation, production records, specifications, HACCP plans and compliance databases.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain and cross‑functional teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assist with supplier quality management, including non‑conformance reporting and performance improvement.
• Support new product introductions to ensure food safety, quality and operational requirements are met.
• Deliver quality and food safety training and contribute to building a strong quality culture.
• Participate in internal, external and supplier audits, and support calibration, validation and verification programs.

Required profile

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Quality Assurance role within food manufacturing or FMCG.
• Strong understanding of HACCP, GMP, food safety and quality management systems.
• Experience conducting internal audits and managing non‑conformances.
• Knowledge of GFSI standards and food manufacturing compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with ability to identify root causes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Collaborative approach with ability to influence across all business levels.

Required skills

• HACCP
• GMP
• GFSI standards
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Microsoft Office
• Quality management systems

What we offer

• Work with iconic Australian snack brands.
• Retail discounts through Reward Gateway.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for continuous learning.
• Additional week of annual leave after 2 years of service.
• Two ‘You do You’ days per year.
• Company‑paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.