Dairy Quality & Compliance Leader

Open Country Dairy Ltd; Southland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Open Country Dairy is hiring a Quality and Compliance Manager for the Awarua Site to lead the site’s quality and compliance programmes. This role oversees the compliance team, ensures regulatory adherence, and drives process improvements across quality, cost, yields, safety and environmental areas.

Ideal candidates will have strong manufacturing principles, auditing qualifications, and at least five years in auditing and quality control, with dairy manufacturing experience and experience

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of manufacturing principles and sampling/testing methods.
• Relevant Quality Control/Auditing qualifications.
• Minimum 5 years sound work history in auditing and quality control.
• Experience in dairy manufacturing and with external contractors.
• Performance improvement, compliance and H&S exposure.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Awarua compliance team and site quality and compliance programmes.
• Ensure regulatory requirements are met and support corporate quality and compliance systems.
• Drive process improvement opportunities, investigations, CAPAs, audits and customer visits.
• Ensure company standards on quality, cost, availability, yields, safety and environment are met.

Skills

Manufacturing principles

Sampling methods

Dairy manufacturing

Contractor management

H&S exposure

Education

Quality control/auditing qualifications

Job description

Open Country Dairy is hiring a Quality and Compliance Manager for the Awarua Site to lead the site’s quality and compliance programmes. This role oversees the compliance team, ensures regulatory adherence, and drives process improvements across quality, cost, yields, safety and environmental areas.

Ideal candidates will have strong manufacturing principles, auditing qualifications, and at least five years in auditing and quality control, with dairy manufacturing experience and experience