Health & Safety Placement – (12 months)
BALLYRASHANE
Lakeland Dairies Co-operative Society Limited (The Group) is the second largest dairy processor on the island of Ireland. The business is complex and ambitious with a milk supply pool of 2 billion litres of milk, drawn from over 3,200 family farms across 16 counties.
With the most modern dairy manufacturing facilities in 8 locations on a cross-border basis, the Group supplies to a broad customer base including some of the worlds foremost blue chip companies across the dairy food ingredients, foodservice and consumer food channels on a domestic Ireland, UK, European and global basis. Internationally we export some 240 different products to over 100 countries worldwide.
The Groups Agribusiness Division (Lakeland Agri) operates a state-of-the-art Animal Feed Manufacturing Facility and is a leading and innovative provider of the highest quality feeds and agricultural inputs to dairy, beef and sheep farmers across the north and south of Ireland.
ApplicationsareinvitedfortheabovepositionatourBallyrashane site.
TheRole:
Our manufacturing site in Ballyrashane has an excellent 12-month placement opportunity for an ambitious student hoping to build experience within Health & Safety. The successful applicant will support our H&S Business Partner in promoting a zero-harm culture throughout our organization, looking after the safety of ourselves and others. This role will be instrumental to the development of our safety culture and safety management programme, promoting the adoption of best practice in all aspects of health and safety.
Key responsibilities will include (not limited too):
- Contribute to achieving a safe workplace environment without risk to health and the promotion of zero harm.
- Promote adherence to and communication of all Group Health & Safety policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
- Assist in the undertaking of safety inspections & audits, identifying safety hazards and opportunities for safety improvement.
- Monitoring levels of site first aid resources and ordering new stock as required.
- Ensuring that appropriate PPE is ordered, issued and controlled in line with site needs.
- Developing and using safety management system software to collect safety-related data and produce required reports.
- Create and distribute Safety Alerts in response to accidents on site to ensure key learnings to avoid recurrence are communicated.
- Create and distribute Toolbox Talks to proactively communicate key site health & safety information.
The Person
Our team are seeking a student from a relevant 3rd level subject area (e.g. Environmental Health, Engineering, etc.) who is seeking a year out in industry following completion of their 2nd year of study. The successful applicant will have excellent organisational and communication skills both verbal and written, be proficient with Microsoft Office packages and possess a form of previous working experience.
Knowledge of Health and Safety principles would be advantageous.
If you have the necessary skills and attributes to meet this exciting opportunity in a dynamic, high volume and fast-moving business, we would be delighted to hear from you.
ApplicationProcess:
To apply for this role, please submit a copy of your CV by no later Monday 8th December 2025.
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