Site Quality Lead – Castlefarm
Join Dairygold Co-Operative Society Ltd in driving and maintaining best practice quality and food safety standards for the Castlefarm site.
You will coordinate all activities of the site with the quality team and liaise with the wider site team to define and meet customer and regulatory standards, compliance and quality KPIs through communication & coaching of our internal customers.
Overall responsibility within the site team to manage food safety, authenticity, legality and quality.
Responsibilities
Customer
Owner of Quality Management and Food Safety System
Site point of contact for customer visits and audits (including internal audits)
Develop and manage relationships with key strategic customers
Manage all aspects of Product grading and release
Quality voice for product development and innovation (Stage Gate & Spec review)
Assign and complete investigations into customer issues/improvements
Responsible for developing the food safety plan and re-analysis of the plan.
Food Safety & HACCP Team Leader
Developing the site's food defence plan conducting a vulnerability assessment, identifying mitigation strategies and conducting a re-analysis of the plan.
Food Defence & TACCP Team Leader
Communication
Report and drive Quality performance on a daily, weekly and monthly basis at the relevant forums and report to Head of Quality and Site Manager
Compliance
Drive and measure close out of technical issues, NC's, CAPAs, Supplier issues, Hygiene, Documentation, Pest Control
Certification
Maintain FSSC, HALAL, Kosher certification and DAFM standards
Manage and continuously improve the Quality Management System for the site
Quality Culture & Coaching
Develop and instill Food Safety behaviours across the site
People
Coach, develop, train and up-skill employees to enhance knowledge and understanding
Assign and develop team members through relevant projects, problem solving events and meetings
Food safety is your responsibility
Qualifications & Experience
Minimum 3 years' experience in Quality Management in Dairy, Food, Pharma, or equivalent sector
Excellent people skills are essential
Strong interpersonal & communication skills
Be a team player
Performance driven with a proven ability to work on own initiative
A positive, can-do, resilient and flexible attitude
Good writing and coaching skills
Self-motivated with a drive to meet targets and achieve results
Well-developed problem-solving skills to resolve issues in a timely manner
Innovative and solution-oriented individual
Proven track record of strong organisational skills, and ability to priorities tasks
Advanced IT skills
What Dairygold will offer you
Be a part of 'Our Strategy Our Future ****' which through significant investment in the appropriate infrastructure across the business has and continues to facilitate our growth ambitions
We offer our people an exciting and challenging career, with a supportive community of colleagues, and constant training and up-skilling opportunities.
You will be working on exciting projects with exceptionally talented colleagues and teams
We offer competitive wage opportunities alongside our annual bonus scheme
We have a competitive company pension scheme
We offer contributions towards healthcare
We offer an Employee Assistance Program should any employee ever need support.
Employee wellbeing initiatives are extremely important aspect for our co-operative's success
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Function
Quality Assurance and Production
Manufacturing and Dairy Product Manufacturing
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Dairygold is committed to a work environment that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and creates an open culture where everyone feels valued and can be themselves.
Dairygold believes that embracing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace benefits the organisation.
Every employee brings their own experiences, background, work styles, capabilities and personal characteristics to work and Dairygold aims to create an environment that encourages a culture of 'Bring your whole self to work'.
Accommodation
Dairygold is an inclusive employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for potential and existing employees with a disability.
Should you wish to request a reasonable accommodation, please email
Application
Please get in touch to start your rewarding journey with Dairygold today.
#J-*****-Ljbffr