Quality Business Partner

About the Role

Reporting to the National Quality Manager, this role will oversee the day-to-day operations of Quality control and quality assurance, lead and execute initiatives to enhance product quality, food safety and operational efficiency. Partnering with our stakeholders, you will play a key role in enabling the achievement of quality function’s objectives in line with our business strategy.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leadership - Manage, coach, and develop Quality Team members.
• Business Partnering – develop and deploy quality culture and implement best practise to build stakeholder capabilities across Auckland site.
• Strategy and framework – contribute towards the development of NZ Quality framework and management systems.
• Drive Quality Culture – assist in building stakeholder capabilities to improve quality culture within the business
• Quality/product compliance - ensure the facility's products and processes are in line with best practices
• Continuous Improvement - drive change for continuous improvement across the business
• Operational processes and non-conformances management

Your Background:

• Ideally a tertiary qualification in Food Technology/Applied Science, or Agricultural Science.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in quality assurance and quality control within the food industry.
• In-depth knowledge of food safety regulations, standards, and familiarity with the workings of NZ regulatory and accreditation bodies like IANZ, MPI.
• Has a technical or quality systems background and is familiar with Laboratory testing landscape in NZ or abroad.
• Exposure to continuous improvement projects.
• Collaborative in their style, inclusive in making decisions.
• Is a confident and motivated individual with an eye for detail and continuous improvement.
• Proven performance in being proactive rather than reactive and converting the team to this way of thinking.
• Working knowledge of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
  

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary and fantastic bonus scheme
• Study Assistance after 12 months of continuous service
• Parental leave benefits on top of minimum entitlements
• Discounted rates at GWF’s business partners (Southern Cross, hotels across Australia and New Zealand) 
• Community volunteering - 2 days paid leave to participate in a volunteering activity each calendar year with one aligned to GWF’s 3 charity partners and one for a registered charity of your own choice
• Free company products
  

About Us

Our core values underpin everything that we do, and the result is a really special place to work. We have a fun, vibrant and a unique company culture that is founded on our four core values: Safe, Courageous, Trusting and Collaborative.

Mauri is a division of the George Weston Foods (NZ) Limited. we are passionate about all things made with high quality bakery ingredients and Animal Feeds. We are a leading industry supplier, milling over one million tonnes of grain across 14 sites in Australia and New Zealand. With a strong focus on innovation and insights, we align closely with our customers to create products and develop solutions that help their business’ grow.

If you would like to know more about our business, the website is https://www.gwf.com.au/

If you are looking to take that next step in your career, and really want to make a mark in a newly created role then look no further. Apply now via our careers page.