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Quality Assurance Coordinator (Part-Time/Contract Role), McDonalds, Thornleigh NSW

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Company Description

McDonald’s Australia Limited is the largest quick service restaurant operation in the country. Fondly known as “Macca's”, we are a household name in Australia for over 50 years, we believe that our customers are the heart and soul of everything we do and make it our mission to make every moment count! As an employer of choice winner, working with us means taking pride and having fun along the way, while growing and developing your career in a dynamic and supportive environment. Not only do we offer flexible working arrangements and an attractive staff discount; but we provide an opportunity to work alongside other passionate and talented people every single day.


Job Description

Could you be our next Quality Assurance (QA) Coordinator?
The QA Coordinator provides a support function to ensure food safety and quality standards are effectively communicated and achieved across the system supporting both Australia and New Zealand markets. In addition, this role will work closely with suppliers and McDonald’s Quality Assurance Managers (QAMs) to develop and execute programs for food product and equipment validation. What can you expect on a day-to-day basis?

  • Conducting product and equipment cook and/or yield validations in the test kitchen as required and general product quality testing.
  • Supporting QAMs in creating and maintaining product specifications
  • Reviewing customer complaint trends
  • Co-ordinating restaurant trials for QA initiated projects

Qualifications

Your keys to success:

  • Degree Qualified in Food Science/Technology (Final Year or Recent Graduate)
  • A clear, confident, and concise communicator
  • Well-organised, demonstrated project management skills; able to set and work to tight deadlines
  • A proven ability to work under pressure in both acute and planned environments
  • Self-motivated and proactive, takes the initiative to pre-empt opportunities
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Committed to principles of food safety and driven to uphold these principles
  • Great at building strong interpersonal relationships with co-workers and suppliers

Additional Information

The Macca’s Difference 

  • Birthday & Volunteer leave
  • A fun and vibrant culture packed with a lot of local events in each state
  • Access to hundreds of retail discounts including discounted Macca’s
  • Highly flexible work environment
  • Wellbeing initiatives including a 24/7 wellbeing partner for you and your immediate family
  • Ongoing professional development opportunities in line with your career goals and passion 

As an equal opportunity employer, we strongly encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We strive to make every moment through the recruitment process a feel-good moment for everyone. Let us know if we can provide any reasonable accommodations to enable you to participate in the job application and interview process, if you'd like to note your pronouns or have suggestions for how we can improve in this space.

TO APPLY Visit https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/McDonaldsCorporation/743999979028273-quality-assurance-coordinator-part-time-contract-role-

Graduate Customer Success Specialist - Food Technology, Quality & Supply Chain Sydney, New South Wales (Hybrid)

Foods Connected

Foods Connected is an award-winning cloud-based software platform that is utilised by 10 of the largest food retailers in the world providing them with leading solutions to help them manage their supply chain, quality control and trading and planning management. As a team, we provide tools that help our customers manage their processes in a fast and efficient way and provide real-time visibility and reporting on what is happening in their business.

Whether we are in the middle of a fast and intense development sprint, on a Teams call discussing our project statuses or enjoying a game of ping-pong or pool in the office, it is important to us that our employees are happy and delivering the best possible result for our customers.

We’re always keen to welcome talented individuals to join our growing team in Sydney. So, if you’re a natural planner, driven, with a passion for driving forward simple software solutions, creating great user experiences and customer satisfaction through organised, well managed processes then we’re looking for you!

IS THIS SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU?

Reporting to an experienced member of our Customer Success and Implementation team, the Graduate Customer Specialist will be assisting in a wide range of the Foods Connected day to day commercial activities. This will be a fast-paced role within a fast growing company, working closely alongside the Project Leads with some of the most progressive retail and manufacturing companies in the food industry.

It will be diverse in activity with the Graduate Customer Success Specialist being introduced to a multitude of areas within the business, so they will need to be able to adapt to different situations at ease. The business graduate will have a fantastic opportunity to grow within the company and have the opportunity to become a key member of the team with huge scope for progressing as the company grows.

On one extreme you will learn about the food industry and the challenges that companies and people in this sector have on a day-to-day basis. On the other-side they will learn about agile software development and how applications can help manage information and create analytics to drive improvement within food companies.

The Graduate Customer Success Specialist will need to be creative and generate ideas and proposals to help clients overcome their problems and inefficiencies. They will thrive on interaction with people and learn to develop fantastic communication skills to really listen to their clients problems and then properly describe potential solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

KEY SKILLS:

  • No requirement to be an expert but have a good understanding of IT systems and the ability to pick up new software tools easily.
  • Have a passion for the Food Industry and the processes involved across raw material, production, commercial, quality and retail.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills and be able to communicate clearly what something does and the benefit it brings.
  • Be committed, keen to learn and have drive and determination to design and bring improvements to established working practices.

Project Management

  • Working with current and new key accounts, listening to their needs and satisfying their requirements whilst at the same time remaining within the confines of Foods Connected’s core strategy and software objectives.
  • Developing relationships with clients.
  • Helping our clients with the setup and integration of new functionality into their business.
  • Assisting and then leading in delivering presentations of the ‘live system’ to client user groups.
  • Help identify new client leads and develop these through effective networking and demonstrating the functionality to potential clients both face-to-face and through web based demonstrations.
  • Help Identify new opportunities within existing client portfolios through high exposure to their working practices.
  • Delivering training to our client user groups to take them through the systems and processes that you help design and rollout.
  • Delivering Key account reporting needs and assisting clients with setup of current and new system functionality.

Qualifications Required:

  • Applicants will be considered who have undertaken studies in a food related or business or IT related field and have graduated.

Benefits:

In addition to a very competitive salary, we also provide an excellent benefits package including:

  • Flexible working hours.
  • Relevant focused training to enable you take up a high degree of responsibility within the business quickly.
  • Coaching and mentoring in all areas of the business.
  • Working within a small but growing team with a real focus on directing all our efforts on the needs of the customers.
  • The chance to lead the creation of innovative solutions that are quickly rolled out to the industry where you can see your work in use by our customers.
  • The ability to grow into a key contributing member of our team with real responsibilities and targets.

To Apply, visit: https://foodsconnected.bamboohr.com/careers/111?source=aWQ9MjA%3D

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