Product Grading Coordinator

at  Westland Milk Products

Born the beautifully raw West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island, Westland Milk Products has an excellent international reputation that embodies the West Coast spirit in all that it does. It’s taken some good old-fashioned hard work to get where we are, and our committed team is a huge part of our ongoing success. We process over 700 million litres of milk a year and produce a wide range of consumer and foodservice products, and dairy ingredients.
Based at either our Christchurch (Hornby) or Hokitika site and reporting to our Technical Standards & Product Release Manager we’re looking for a Product Grading Coordinator to help mitigate potential risk to the business and enhance business reputation. This is a key role in our Quality team with responsibility for coordinating all product grading activities, supporting specification management processes, and for the provision of a range of standard reports for tracking quality performance measures.

More specifically this role will:

• be responsible for the grading of final product, ensuring all product grading clearance is accurate and available to the Customer Documentation, Sales and Export Administration teams
• identify factors that may impact on the market eligibility of product
• ensure product grading batch disposition is amended promptly when a change of eligibility and/or status has been identified
• ensure quality product traceability meets legal requirements
• be able to be a key systems user supporting the development of a LIMS system and Quality ERP system upgrade
• support specification management activities ensuring Westland Milk Products specifications (new and amended) are promptly updated as approved in a timely manner

Applicants will ideally possess:

• a high level of attention to detail, with the ability to be competent and accurate when working with a variety of data
• well-developed MS Office skills - Word, Excel etc
• exceptional written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build relationships and communicate clearly with a wide variety of people
• a commitment to quality
• well-developed computer literacy with the ability to pick up new systems quickly and a comfort working with a wide range of computer systems

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-known company, working in great role within a dedicated and passionate team who take pride in everything they do. We offer a competitive salary, incentive scheme, health & life insurances, free parking - delicious discounted grass-fed quality butter and other benefits, so come and join us!!! Please see the accompanying position description (available on our Westland Careers page westlandcareers.co.nz) for further information.

• be responsible for the grading of final product, ensuring all product grading clearance is accurate and available to the Customer Documentation, Sales and Export Administration teams
• identify factors that may impact on the market eligibility of product
• ensure product grading batch disposition is amended promptly when a change of eligibility and/or status has been identified
• ensure quality product traceability meets legal requirements
• be able to be a key systems user supporting the development of a LIMS system and Quality ERP system upgrade
• support specification management activities ensuring Westland Milk Products specifications (new and amended) are promptly updated as approved in a timely manne