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Quality Systems Coordinator
Quality Systems Coordinator Fixed-term position (maternity cover), Coleraine, Northern Ireland
**Closing date for applications: **Thursday 23rd July
About the Role
Here at Kinisla, we’re recruiting for a Quality Systems Coordinator (fixed-term maternity cover) based in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
You’ll provide critical support to the Quality Systems Team in Europe, collaborating on region-wide and global strategic initiatives. Your responsibilities will span operational, analytical, and administrative dimensions:
- Oversee product release requests from the warehouse, based on validated testing results (microbiological & analytical).
- Manage and generate regional and global KPIs, ensuring timely internal (weekly/monthly) and external reporting (customer-facing monthly/quarterly deliveries).
- Maintain SAP and Pest Control systems (including PCO portal updates).
- Account for lab consumables stock (including PPE), coordinating requisitions for the technical department by managing purchase orders and deliveries.
- Coordinate customer complaints and external warehouse storage fulfilment.
- Execute Customer portal alerts and RM Approval documentation reviews.
- Maintain structured product inspection schedules, investigations, and trend analysis across:
- FS&Q() Environmental Monitoring Program (EMP) records.
- Sheflife sample evaluations.
- Execute and report on internal QMS audits.
- Develop and train on SOP is, ensuring documentation aligns with compliance requirements.
- Reecute administrative coverage as needed for the Quality Systems Manager under delegated duties.
Deliverables: ✔ Ad hoc tasks central to business growth and regulatory compliance.
Requirements and Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma (or higher) in Food Science, Food Technology, or related field.
- Fluent English (verbal and written).
- Demonstrated numerical literacy with the ability to analyze data, draw insights, and apply findings.
- Fundamental working's understanding of Food Safety and Quality Management Systems (FSQMS), including:
- The BRC Global Food Standard standards.
- Industry-relevant compliance frameworks (specific customer requirements relevant to product outlook).
- Familiar with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tools and troubleshooting methodologies.
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Key Competencies:
- Exceptional communication skills—ability to articulate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical teams.
- Attention to detail, with an impeccable approach to accuracy in documentation.
- Cross-functional collaboration ability, working seamlessly across departments.
- Deadline accuracy, aligned with prioritising business and regulatory targets.
- Planning and analytical mindset for effective task delivery.
What We Offer
At Kinisla, talent and purpose drive progress. We’re a team of innovators committed to advancing the future of food through sustainability and transparency. Building brain is at the core of what we do—connecting minds to create solutions and inspire growth.
A culture that allows curiosity to thrive.
Benefits include:
- 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for contract duration, excluding bank holidays).
- Matched pension scheme.
- User-friendly Benefits Platform featuring authorised discounts and cashback programs with major retailers.
About Kinisla Ireland
A vertically integrated food-to-fork business, Kinisla delivers high-quality dairy, nutritional ingredients, and consumer Foods with a focus on sustainability. Vision: Partnering with 2,800+
Irish family farms—land recognisably the world’s lowest-carbon dairy operations—to create the best Graham’s cheese and dairy value chains. Our ready-to-eat products include the legacy brands Cheestrings, Charleville, Coleraine Cheese and DAIRYGOLD, alongside innovation-styled launches like SMUG™ and Golden Cow.
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📍 Hubs: Our Northern Ireland and UK operational footprint includes nationd-printing facilities in Portadown and Coleraine, alongside strategic offices and distribution centres. Globally, it covers 1,700+ employees in Ireland, Northern, UK, US, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and China.
A €1.3 billion company in 2024, redefined by dairy’s innovated future—on land that’s at the heart of farming excellence.
Why Join Us?
At Kinisla, you contribute to something meaningful. Within our inclusivity filled culture, you thrive in diverse values:
- Tap into a team of unclefies.
- Lead change, solve challenges, and collaborate across boundaries.
We foster a positive environment where individuals feel empowered to grow, both personally and professionally.
Our focus is merit-based recruitment, actively supporting Diversity and Inclusion across all facets—we do not discriminate. Equality covers gender, race, socioeconomic status, beliefs, age, orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
Plus: A recruitment relationship governed solely on individual performance.
Key Note
Kinisla exrefusically declined all external recruitment agency-supported candidate submissions. Our standards apply full transparency to hiring processes without assigning, paying or embedding any intermediary costs.
Apply Today: Drop your resume directly to the contact point Ambassador within the application guidelines.
🌐 Get in touch today at “[Team location Bulletin]—we can’t wait to meet your talents!
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