Compliance Auditor

**About Kerry**
A career with Kerry Taste & Nutrition offers you an opportunity to shape how people across the globe view food and beverage while providing you opportunities to explore and grow as your interests do. With our commitment to a sustainable future, a career withKerry is something you can feel good about.
**About the role**
We are currently recruiting for a **maternity cover Compliance Auditor** for our site in **Coleraine.** You will be able to identify risks, areas for improvement and help ensure that the organisation complies with all relevant regulations, laws and standards. Day to day you will be insuring products consistently meet our customers standard alongsidedaily confirmation of orders and completing customer audits for our retail business. You will be involved in exciting projects around BRC standards and work for a Kerry site that has enjoyed recent and ongoing expansion / investment. This is a full time position,7am-4pm Monday to Friday with a 1 in 4 requirement to work a Sunday.
**Key responsibilities**
- To provide guidance and support to facilitate the implementation and on-going maintenance of Quality / Regulatory policies, Food Safety Programs (HACCP) procedures and product specifications.
- Perform factory based QSHE audits and inspections to verify compliance against defined standards, codes of practice and product specifications. Audit and inspection examples include - Gap Analysis, Traceability exercises, Glass and Hard Plastics, Internal,Hygiene, HACCP/QC Verification, Health and Safety, Environmental etc.
- Supporting the upkeep of Quality Management system including but not limited to updating forms, visual standards, standard operating procedure.
- Continuously improve standards set and performance against those standards by leading and participating in CI Process when required with a particular focus on Quality.
- Deliver training, support and guidance to the cross functional Teams and ensure standards are fully understood e.g. Quality briefings / Meetings, GMP training, Food Safety awareness, Issue Management briefings.
- Provide support to cross functional team through confirming and verifying compliance to standards e.g. hand back following engineering work, exceptional situations, risk assessments.
- Perform verification checks on factory measuring and testing equipment
- Complete product assessments and taste panels as and when necessary.
- Take ownership of the sites pest controls programme, interface with area owners and representatives on investigation and corrective action and keep pest control log up to date

**Qualifications and skills**
- You will be a fluent communicator, both written and spoken in English.
- Numerical ability to record, interpret and analyse key process data.
- Proficient in the use of MS Office tools.
- Understanding of Food Safety and Quality Management Systems.
- The ability to identify and actively plan improvements and adapt in a changing environment.
- The ability to word both independently and in a team

**Desirable**:

- Experience in a Manufacturing environment in a similar role.
- Knowledge of the BRC Global Food Standard and H&S Policies and Procedures.
- Knowledge of Environmental Management systems eg. ISO 14001, 50001.

**What's in it for me?**
Opportunity for career development, matched pension scheme to up to 10% and access to an employee assistance program and employee benefit platform.
In Kerry we benefit from the knowledge of our colleagues who bring a diverse range of cultures, backgrounds, lifestyles and experiences.
One team fostering an inclusive culture that, above all, inspires food and nourishes life.
One culture where everyone brings their unique perspectives and experiences to help make us better, together.
We are committed to nurturing an environment of positivity and inclusiveness, where everyone can be at their best, both personally and professionally.
Our recruitment, selection and assessment process are based on the skills and competencies of the specific roles and based entirely on merit. We are committed to and value Diversity and Inclusion in all recruitment processes within Kerry and do not discriminatebased on gender, race, class, economic status, ethnic background, sexual orientation, age, political beliefs, veteran status, marital status or any other protected characteristic.
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