Supplier Quality Lead

• Be a part of 'Our Strategy Our Future 2030' 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. Dairygold match your contribution plus an extra 2% up to a maximum of 14% in total.
• We offer contributions towards healthcare.
• Company sick pay scheme
• 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.
• By supporting and inspiring our workers, we empower them to explore and discover their true potential.
• We recognise the need for a favourable work life balance.
• Paid family leave
• We pride ourselves on our culture and values. We work hard but we like to have some fun along the way too driven by our Sports and Social club.
• At Dairygold we are always focused on continuous improvement and innovation. All our colleagues are empowered to share new ideas.
• Zero Harm employee Safety initiatives
• Employee Service Awards

Dairygold is Ireland's largest farmer-owned co-operative. Our unique location, referenced as the Golden Vale, is home to nutrient rich pasture lands that stretch across the valleys of Munster, where our farmer shareholders produce quality-assured, naturally sourced raw materials. Combining our deep-rooted farming tradition with our nutritional expertise and technology, we have grown to be a global player that supplies the global market with the highest quality premium cheese and dairy ingredients.

With headquarters in Mitchelstown, Cork, and operations in other locations in Ireland, Europe and worldwide, Dairygold processes 1.48 billion litres of milk a year, with an annual turnover of €1.65 billion. The society is structured across three imperative divisions; food ingredients, agri business and retail, that drive and support our farmers and business.

Reporting to, the Customer Assurance & Regulatory Manager, the Supplier Quality Lead is primarily responsible for the ongoing development & maintenance of Dairy Ireland supplier approval process and approval of ingredient, packaging and chemical specification of purchased goods on the FC system. This role supports supplier quality assurance and customer compliance activities by working closely with Site Quality Leads, Procurement, and Commercial teams. Responsibilities include supplier management and auditing, coordinating customer queries through the CRM system, supporting site audits, maintaining finished product specifications, conducting raw material risk assessments, managing TACCP and VACCP programmes, and supporting audits conducted by religious certification bodies.

• Develop and maintain a supplier audit schedule from the approved supplier list in FC, using a risk-based approach, in line with the current SOP.
• Audit suppliers & third parties including warehouses as per the annual agreed scheduling including issuing of timely reports from FC and maintaining a system for monitoring closure and verification of non-compliances raised.
• Approve all new suppliers by performing relevant approval protocols to verify product integrity and food safety controls and standards;
• Coordinate the development and approval of specifications for ingredients, primary packaging, chemicals and detergents in standard template format, as required by procurement
• Log all portal supplier issues / complaints and co-ordinate and communicate back to the suppliers, drive root cause investigation and NC closure.
• Maintain and complete TACCP and VACCP & review annually for each of the 4 sites.
• Complete raw material RA for each of the 4 sites at minimum on annual basis.
• Support site certification by regulatory, religious bodies and customer audits.
• Support audits at Rathduff including assisting DAFM sampling and inspections and maintenance of the QMS.
• Co-ordinate responses to customer queries including QMS documentation & certification, through the CRM system.
• Promote food safety culture by circulating weekly food safety related topics.
• Support sites in maintaining Kosher and HALAl certification by maintaining relevant up to date support certification.
• Support internal audit schedules at sites, as directed.
• Generate metrics and report on activities on a weekly basis.
• Support and lead projects and other relevant tasks as directed by Customer Assurance and Regulatory Manager
• Support specification review as required.

Dairygold Co-Operative Society Limited is now pleased to invite applications for the position of Supplier Quality Lead.