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Fonterra

Cooperative dairy ingredients and nutrition supplier

HSW Critical Risk Management Lead - Delivery

Environmental Health & SafetyConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNew ZealandNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Proven experience in critical risk management, programme development and implementation, ideally within complex industrial or manufacturing environments.
  • A relevant tertiary qualification in Health & Safety, Risk Management, or a related field.
  • Technical expertise in critical risk controls, assurance methodologies, and protocol development.
  • Strong strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving capability, including the ability to interpret evidence and identify systemic risks and improvement opportunities.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing, coaching, and constructive-challenge skills.
  • Confidence using digital tools and data to support risk-based decision-making, prioritisation, and continuous improvement.
  • Strong attention to detail and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development, deployment, and oversight of Fonterra’s critical risk management framework.
  • Drive continuous improvement of processes, tools, and resources, and oversee the rollout of Risk Control Protocols (RCP), Key Control Inspection (KCI), and Key Control Assessment (KCA) programmes.
  • Act as a subject matter expert for HSW risk management, providing technical advice and guidance to the GHSW team and business units.
  • Support critical control design and effectiveness, and collaborate with Global Engineering & Technology on technical safety delivery, human factors, work design, and the interaction between people, technology, and controls.
  • Organise and facilitate critical risk learning labs to strengthen key control understanding and alignment.
  • Provide coaching and guidance on risk assessments, SFAIRP reviews, major hazard facilities, and critical risk conversations.
  • Lead the custodianship, development, and maintenance of GHSW critical risk management and control standards, procedures, and guidance.
  • Conduct assurance activities supporting broader Risk, Systems and Enablers Assurance programmes.
  • Use qualitative and quantitative evidence to assess control performance, identify patterns, weak signals, and systemic issues, and translate learning into practical improvements.

About the Company

Fonterra

Cooperative dairy ingredients and nutrition supplier

Fonterra produces dairy ingredients and finished dairy products for global manufacturers and foodservice customers, sourced from its farmer-owners. Milk from farmer-shareholders is processed into ingredients like powders, proteins, and dairy solutions that other companies use to create their own products. It differs from competitors by being a farmer-owned co-operative with scale from a major merger and by concentrating on B2B dairy ingredients and foodservice rather than consumer brands. Its goal is to simplify its structure and raise returns for farmer-shareholders by focusing on core global dairy ingredients and expanding its international reach.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Auckland, New Zealand
Founded
2001

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