Senior Process Manager – Milk Protein

|Food & Dairy - Production|New Zealand
  • Modern UF plant
  • Supportive leadership team
  • Great lifestyle location

We are delighted to be working with our global food ingredients client as they continue to invest in their state of the art New Zealand dairy facility located in the central North Island region.  The company has built one of the country’s newest milk processing plants, with capability to make a range of high quality dairy products supplying the global B2B ingredients market.
 
Commutable from Rotorua, Taupo and the greater Hamilton region, you can base yourself locally or from a larger town/city and if you love the outdoors then the mountains and lakes are on your doorstep.
 
The Role:
With a brand new Milk Protein Concentrate plant coming online, this newly created role reports to the Site Manager and will lead and support the end-to-end processing operations on-site to ensure production targets, quality standards, safety, and environmental obligations are met.
 
Critical to the process is the initial raw milk receipt, separation and process of passing the skimmed milk through their UF plant, ensuring efficiency of separation while minimising membrane blinding.  As such, we are seeking someone with proven experience in both hands on and leadership of this stage of milk proteins manufacture whether this is for MPC or other protein concentration such as for cheese processing.

A key technical role for the business’s value-added program, you will be a primary technical contact for Tier 1 customers. The role focuses on continuous improvement, asset performance, team capability, and delivery of key manufacturing KPIs in line with business strategy. This means your technical and process knowledge in MPC manufacture is critical to your role.
 
Preferred Skills/Experience:
With specific expertise needed, you will ideally have:

  • Tertiary qualification in engineering, science, manufacturing or similar
  • At least 10 years operational experience within dairy manufacturing
  • Minimum of 5 years team leadership OR proven influencing skills
  • At least 5 years Milk Protein processing experience
  • Skim milk separation and further filtration experience
  • Hands on working knowledge with industrial scale separation/drying processes
  • Project/process management experience
  • Highly motivational, proven cross-functional team skills

Primary Milk Protein isolation and processing experience is a must, and you must have demonstrated knowledge of Ultra Filtration plant running, cleaning and life management.   This role could suit a highly experienced Process Manager seeking a new challenge or someone ready to step up and lead a team through an exciting phase of growth.

In Return:
In return, our client offers competitive remuneration and benefits, a supportive work environment and the opportunity to be part of an expanding business where you can make a real difference.
For a confidential inquiry or to apply for this position please click on the APPLY button, or alternatively contact Tony De Barr on 04 916 0541, email tony@trs.co.nz
Note: If this vacancy is not exactly what you are seeking, then please contact me in confidence to discuss your individual requirements.