Food Safety & Quality Specialist | Clandeboye - Canterbury - 10645 - Fonterra

Job Name

Food Safety & Quality Specialist

General Information

Date Published

18-Nov-2024

Advertising Ends

01-Dec-2024

Country

New Zealand

Location

Canterbury

Role Type

Quality & Safety

Work Type

Permanent

ID#

10645

Position Description

Our Co-operative

Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini

We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.

When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.

About us | He kupu mō mātou

Located in scenic South Canterbury which is rapidly becoming a lifestyle choice, our Clandeboye site is Fonterra’s largest manufacturing site, with 11 plants processing, at peak up to 13 million litres of milk per day. We employee over 1,200 people across the value stream all bringing a diverse range of skills, expertise and thought to our operation.

About the opportunity | | Mō tēnei tūranga

Joining us as Food Safety Quality Specialist, you will lead and support a culture of food safety and quality supporting our Clandeboye & Studholme sites to ensure that we consistently meet our FSQ requirements. This is executed through ensuring robust food safety systems, quality systems and business processes are in place to achieve quality and compliance deliverables.

Through the leadership and coaching, and supported by expertise regarding interpretation of regulatory, food safety, quality and customer requirements, you will empower our plant teams to make informed decisions during the manufacturing and distribution of products.

The outcome is to provide confidence that Regulatory, Food Safety, Quality, Market & Customer requirements have been correctly interpreted and applied as products move through the value stream, a critical aspect of delivering our overall food safety & quality promise to our customers.

Key accountabilities include:

Monitoring and reporting on plant compliance to relevant regulations, food safety, quality and customer standards.
Assuring the food safety & quality status of the site through inspection and audit.
Implementing, maintaining and improving the effectiveness of the food safety and quality system.
Approving and managing key food safety & quality outcomes.
Exception management is proficiently coordinated, including short term corrective actions and long-term effectivity of controls.

About you | Ko wai koe

We are looking for a clear communicator who can convey information concisely and confidently to all levels of the business. In this position, you will play a crucial role in building capability within our site teams, helping them to understand and implement FSQ standards effectively. We are looking for someone who is not only knowledgeable in food safety and quality but also has a knack for developing skills and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within the teams.

Your proven influencing ability and outstanding organisation and planning skills are the keys to your success, as well as your eye for detail. You will be an expert at managing your time and varying priorities, you'll be able to leverage key relationships across our business to get results.

Other skills and experience include:

Sound software skills that will allow you to use multiple computer programmes and applications.
Proactive communication and people skills with an ability to interact with team members across different business units.
Coaching ability to build capability and understanding of Food Safety and Quality requirements.
Great time management skills with a systematic and methodical approach to work on tasks.
Experience with managing and coordinating compliance activities.
Knowledge and awareness of dynamic risk management; being able to identify and understand food safety risks early on.
Have resilience to be able to challenge as required to ensure safe food is manufactured every day.
Experience working within Food safety and Quality preferred.

If you are a people person with a passion for driving excellence and identifying areas for cultural enhancement, we believe you will thrive in this role. Your ability to engage with and support our teams will be instrumental in achieving our FSQ goals.

This is a permanent, full-time position working Monday to Friday days.

The benefits of life at Fonterra | Ngā painga o te mahi ki Fonterra

Our people and what they bring to our Co-op shape our success. We have a collaborative culture, inspiring leaders, and passionate people, making Fonterra a great place to work. We also offer competitive remuneration and a range of benefits, regardless of your role or location.

To learn more, visit Fonterra Careers

Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations

Sound good to you? We like to see as many jobs as possible filled by our talented existing team, so if you are interested, please apply now so we can continue to solve for better, together.

Applications will close midnight Sunday 1st December 2024

You, me, us together. Tᾱtou tᾱtou.

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Food Safety & Quality Specialist | Clandeboye

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