Permanent full-time role

Location: Brisbane based

Food Safety Advisor for Retail – Queensland, Northern Territory and Northern NSW

About the role:

Based in Brisbane - QLD, you will support the QLD, NT and NSW Nth regions. You will play a key role in managing food safety standards and providing specialist support across our retail stores.

Our Food Safety Advisors provide specialised support to ensure that all aspects of our Food Safety and Quality Management System are being followed and adhered to.

Food Safety Advisors work closely with their assigned regions, complete field-based store audits, ad-hoc supplier audits, support with incident investigations and continuous improvement activities.

Key responsibilities:

Ensure regulatory compliance and best practice in Food Safety

Assist in the continuous improvement of our current systems and processes

Provide expert Food Safety advice as well as plan and conduct Food Safety audits

Manage incident investigations and Food Safety complaints

Work with a range of stakeholders to manage regulator issues end-to-end

Provide trend analysis, insight and input to key reports / present at meetings for the business to make informed decisions and drive action

Utilise your strong verbal and written communication skills to liaise, coach, influence and drive change with various stakeholders

About you:

You will have a strong knowledge of regulatory compliance and store operations. As an effective communicator, you will build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders. You will have a passion for continuous improvement which will support our current systems and processes. You are able to apply concepts of knowledge / skill without requiring supervision.

Key skills and experience:

Tertiary qualifications in relevant food safety discipline or extensive experience in practical food safety

A current full Australian driver’s license is required

Strong knowledge of food retail operations or the QSR industry and regulatory compliance

Experience in multi-site support

Have experience as an auditor with working knowledge of HACCP and the Food Standards Code.

Our benefits:

Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for one privately used car!

We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.

We value recognition.  We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.

Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.

Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid). In addition to the 12 months of unpaid parental leave, employees may apply for a further 12 months of unpaid parental leave (a total of 24 months for each birth)

BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.

Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.

Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme

Leave Options – We offer wellbeing leave and leave purchasing

Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.

We’re an equal opportunity workplace. We not only embrace diversity and inclusion; we celebrate what makes you unique. We welcome applications from people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and diverse sexualities and genders (including if you identify as transgender). We also highly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply for roles with Ampol.

Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today.