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Quality Coordinator

General Information

Date Published
19-Sep-2025
Advertising Ends
17-Oct-2025
ID#
13053
Role Type
Quality & Safety
Work Type
Permanent Full-Time
Workplace Type
On-site
Country
Australia
Location
Northern Victoria

Position Description

We are Fonterra, one of the world's largest dairy nutrition companies. Here in Australia, we collect milk from Aussie Farmers across Victoria and Tasmania, and our manufacturing sites turn this into the dairy foods you know and love in our supermarkets, including Perfect Italiano™, Mainland™, Western Star™, and Bega™. We also sell dairy ingredients to many of the world's leading food companies and partner with food services businesses across the country to get dairy foods into chefs' hands.

As a Co-operative created and owned by New Zealand dairy farmers, our collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in Australia and around the world. 

As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.  

When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions. 

About the opportunity

Our Fonterra Stanhope site is seeking a highly skilled Quality Coordinator to join our Site Quality team. This pivotal role ensures our food safety and quality systems are robust, compliant, and effectively implemented. By verifying and supporting compliance with regulatory, food safety, and customer standards, you will play a key part in maintaining customer confidence and delivering high-quality products.

Key Responsibilities

  • Compliance Monitoring: Ensure plant compliance with regulations, food safety, quality, and customer standards through inspections and audits.
  • System Implementation: Maintain and improve the effectiveness of the food safety and quality system, supporting key quality outcomes.
  • Exception Management: Participate in managing exceptions, including short-term corrective actions and interim controls.
  • Culture Building: Foster a strong food safety and quality culture through coaching, training, and quality awareness programs.
  • Product Assurance: Oversee the release of products by reviewing critical operational parameters, such as CCPs and quality data.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities for system and process improvements.

About You

We are looking for an experienced and detail-oriented professional with a strong background in food safety, quality, within manufacturing operations. You’ll excel in this role if you are proactive, collaborative, and driven to deliver high standards. You can also demonstrate:

  • Completion or significant progress toward a Certificate IV or Diploma in Food Science and Dairy Technology.
  • At least 3 years of experience in a similar role within the food or pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
  • Training in HACCP principles and experience as an internal auditor.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
  • Proficiency in managing process capability, testing programs, and troubleshooting.
  • Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and compliance requirements.
Are you excited about this opportunity but may only meet some requirements?

At Fonterra, we are committed to building a diverse workplace and, therefore, open to looking at applicants with excellent transferable skills. If that's you, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or one of our other opportunities. 

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The benefits of life at Fonterra

Our people and what they bring to our Co-op shape our success. We have a collaborative culture, inspiring leaders, and passionate people, making Fonterra a great place to work. We also offer competitive remuneration and a range of benefits, regardless of your role or location. 

Fonterra is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.  

Sound good to you? Come and join us, and let's solve for better, together. You, me, us together.