Quality Assurance and Food Safety Lead

Job Family Group:

Retail Group

Job Description:

We're looking for an experienced Quality Assurance and Food Safety Lead to join our Convenience Trading team on a permanent part-time basis (3 days per week).

This is a varied role combining food safety, quality assurance and technical product support across our convenience food business. You'll work closely with Category Managers, Product Developer, Store Operations, HSSE and suppliers to ensure our products are safe, compliant and consistently meet quality standards.

Depending on business requirements, you'll work independently or collaboratively with another technical specialist to provide seamless support across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the Food Safety Management System across the Convenience business, ensuring compliance with legislative and company requirements.

• Provide technical leadership on food safety, quality and regulatory matters, including HACCP, FSANZ requirements, product recalls and incident management.

• Manage supplier quality programs, including supplier approval, audits, corrective actions and ongoing performance monitoring.

• Support new product development by reviewing product specifications, ingredient declarations, nutritional information and food labelling to ensure compliance.

• Partner with Category Managers, Product Developers, Operations and suppliers to deliver safe, high-quality products and successful product launches.

• Investigate customer complaints, food safety incidents and product quality issues, identifying trends and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

• Monitor changes in food legislation and industry standards, ensuring business practices remain current and compliant.

• Support store operations by providing practical food safety guidance, reviewing audit outcomes and simplifying technical requirements for frontline teams.

• Maintain technical documentation, compliance records and reporting, while contributing to broader technical projects and business priorities as required.

• Work collaboratively across the technical team to ensure continuity of food safety, quality and product development activities.

Qualification

• A qualification in Food Science, Food Technology or a related discipline.

• Experience in food safety, quality or technical roles within food manufacturing, FMCG or retail.

• Strong knowledge of HACCP, food legislation and FSANZ requirements.

• Experience with supplier quality, product specifications and food labelling.

• Excellent communication, organisation and stakeholder management skills.

• A current driver's license.

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued

• Possibility to join our social communities and networks

• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path

• Life and health insurance, medical care package

• And many other benefits!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations!

Travel Requirement:

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Driving and transport safety, Hazard communication, Hazmat incident response, Human Performance, Incident investigation and learning, Personal Safety, Process safety culture, Process Safety Engineering, Process safety hazard recognition, Process Safety Management, Process safety metrics, Project and construction safety, Reporting and classification, Risk Management, Safety Compliance, Safety Leadership, Workplace violence awareness and response

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Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.