Requisition ID 62586 Position Type FT Permanent Workplace Arrangement
About the role
The Senior Quality, Health & Safety Manager will play a critical leadership role in driving and embedding best-in-class quality, health and safety standards across Kerry Dairy Ireland's Agribusiness operations. This includes milk collection, laboratory services, feed milling, and trading activities.Reporting to the Director of Agribusiness, the role will provide expert technical leadership and direction to Agribusiness teams and milk suppliers, ensuring compliance with regulatory, customer and internal standards while supporting continuous improvement across the value chain. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong systems thinking, sound judgement, and the ability to influence across a complex stakeholder environment.
Key responsibilities
Quality & Milk Assurance• Lead and oversee all aspects of milk quality across Agribusiness operations.• Provide technical guidance and support to milk suppliers to ensure compliance with quality and safety standards.• Manage customer quality requirements, audits, complaints and continuous improvement initiatives.Health & Safety• Lead the Health & Safety agenda across all Agribusiness activities.• Ensure robust systems, procedures and behaviours are in place to protect employees, contractors and suppliers.• Drive continuous improvement in safety culture and performance.Regulatory & Stakeholder Engagement• Act as the primary liaison with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), including the management and close-out of audits.• Represent the business on relevant industry bodies and technical forums.• Monitor and proactively respond to regulatory, customer and industry developments.Systems, Sustainability & Continuous Improvement• Maintain and develop quality and safety management systems aligned with best practice.• Support and contribute to sustainability initiatives across Agribusiness as required.• Identify opportunities for efficiency, risk reduction and performance improvement across operations.People Management• Lead, motivate, and develop direct employees.• Ensure objectives of direct reports are in line with business objectives.• Monitor and support performance of direct reports• Support talent and leadership development in the team.
Qualifications and skills
Essential• Third-level qualification in a scientific, food or related discipline (or equivalent).• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a quality management role, ideally within the dairy or agri-food sector.• Strong knowledge of dairy industry standards, regulations and customer requirements.• Experience managing audits involving customers, regulators and milk suppliers.Desirable• A recognised Health & Safety qualification.• Experience working across complex, multi-site or supply-chain-based operations.• Exposure to sustainability or environmental compliance initiatives.
About Kerry Dairy Ireland
Kerry Dairy Ireland is a vertically integrated farm-to-fork business with a very substantial consumer foods presence and a leading nutritional and dairy ingredients division, delivering high-quality dairy solutions with a focus on sustainability and innovation. From partnering with local family farms to producing world-class dairy products, we ensure every step of our value chain reflects our commitment to excellence.Our Agribusiness division plays a vital role in supporting Ireland's farming community. We provide farmers with essential products and services, including animal feed, fertilisers, crop protection, and farm supplies, ensuring sustainable and efficient farm operations. Through expert advice and innovative solutions, we help our 2,800 milk suppliers optimise productivity while maintaining the highest standards of animal health and environmental care. This partnership approach strengthens our farm-to-fork model and reinforces our commitment to sustainability and long-term growth for Irish agriculture.Our Safety purpose"we work together in a caring culture where everybody goes home safe every day". We are committed to providing a safe working environment and ensuring that all safety protocols are strictly followed. Join us in creating a workplace where safety is everyone's responsibility.Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a "starter kit," investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.Recruiter #LI-SR1 Posting Type LI Please note also We do not accept CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies where terms of business have not been signed. Additionally, we will not consider or agree to payment of any recruiter fee under these circumstances. This also applies to CVs or candidate profiles sent directly to any Kerry Hiring Managers. In the event that speculative CVs or candidate profiles are submitted by recruitment agencies, we reserve the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current or future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency.