Food Safety & Quality Manager
About the Role:
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Food Safety & Quality Manager to lead our quality agenda in Listowel. If you are passionate about ensuring the highest standards of food safety and quality, this could be the role for you.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the quality agenda in area of responsibility with multi-functional team.
* Manage & deliver on agreed annual quality objectives program & quality targets.
* Define and implement hygiene, GMP and compliance standards as per Kerry Global and customer standards.
* Identification of and delivery of all relevant continuous improvement initiatives.
* Address quality issues by implementing rigorous root cause analysis and corrective actions.
* Develop effective relations with customers and other external agencies as required and manage audits and other relevant agendas.
* Delivery of training to QA/QC and other functions.
* Manage Quality Systems & Standards Compliance to HACCP, applicable Global Standards, Regulatory Agencies and Accreditation Bodies.
Requirements:
* Minimum of an Honours Science degree in Food Science, Pharmaceutical, Microbiology or equivalent discipline.
* Minimum of 3 Years Quality management Experience in a food manufacturing or pharmaceutical environment.
* Experience in Spray Drying & Evaporation Technologies is an advantage.
* Experience in control of facilities, equipment utilities, processing and cleaning.
* Train the trainer qualification desirable.
* Experience in Validation desirable but not essential.
* Focus on delivery of key agreed objectives and targets.
* Ability to gain deep process understanding.
* Attention to detail coupled with strong problem-solving ability.
* Team focus - strong people management and Interpersonal skills.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Excellent organizational and planning skills.
What We Offer:
* 25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays).
* Health Care.
* Matched pension scheme.
* Benefits platform offering discounts and cashback on major retailers.
About Kerry:
Kerry Group's UK & Ireland dairy related business includes Dairy Ingredients, Dairy Nutritional Ingredients, Dairy Consumer foods and Agribusiness. With a revenue in excess of €1bn per year, it is one of the world's leading dairy businesses.
Our dairy business has a diversified portfolio of dairy, nutritional ingredients and market leading dairy brands and its vertically integrated dairy processing ensures the highest quality, sustainably produced 1.2bn litres of milk for our dairy, nutritional ingredients, and consumer foods business- a key consideration among some of our largest customers across the globe.
We have an unrivalled dairy consumers brands portfolio coupled with a track record in innovation underpinned by technology and science. We manufacture and market our own leading butter, dairy and plant spreads brands: Dairygold, Low Low, Pure & Golden Cow. We are the largest supplier of Private Label dairy spreads, supplying all major retailers in Ireland, the UK and mainland Europe. Our cheese brands compete in children's cheese snacks (Attack-a-Snak), natural cheese (block, slices and grated), and in processed cheese segments and our leading cheese brands include Strings & Things, Coleraine, and Charleville cheese.
Through our multi-geographical presence (UK, Ireland, and Western Europe) we have a deep consumer insight which is a key component of the business.