Quality and Compliance Manager

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

About The Company
Open Country Dairy is New Zealand's largest independent dairy manufacturer, producing a wide range of dairy ingredients and products for global markets. Since 2004, we have built a reputation for quality, operational excellence, and innovation, backed by modern manufacturing facilities and a strong commitment to our people.

About The Company
Open Country Dairy is New Zealand's largest independent dairy manufacturer, producing a wide range of dairy ingredients and products for global markets. Since 2004, we have built a reputation for quality, operational excellence, and innovation, backed by modern manufacturing facilities and a strong commitment to our people.

About The Role
We are currently hiring a Quality and Compliance Manager to join our Awarua Site. This role has specific responsibility for:

• Managing the Awarua compliance team, such that the Awarua site quality and compliance programmes
• Remain compliant with regulatory requirements and for supporting the corporate quality and compliance systems.
• Process improvement opportunities, complaint investigations, corrective and preventative actions, audit and customer visit hosting and other quality functions as required.
• Ensure that all Company standards and objectives are met with regard to quality, cost, availability, yields, safety and environmental issues.

About You
To be successful in this role, you will have:

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