Published: 11/04/2025

Job Location: Waikato / New Zealand

This role will primarily lead site wide new or existing Quality Improvement projects through Quality in Design methodology, change control, Validation Management, Risk Management for New Product Development and driving problem solving, to ensure that the standards defined in the Yashili New Zealand Dairy are met and compliant to regulation.

The main key stakeholders for this role are Quality & Compliance, Production, Technical & New Product Development, and Maintenance staff to ensure that established standards are well implemented.

Key Responsibilities

• Process Improvement
• Support
• Risk Management
• Validation
• Health & Safety

Our ideal candidate will have:

Essential

• Tertiary qualification, preferably in food science or related discipline
• >5-year Infant formula or dairy manufacturing experience
• >2-year process validation experience
• Health & Safety Practices experience
• Developed HACCP experience
• Computer & Systems expertise

Preferred:

• Internal audit qualification
• Continuous Improvement expertise
• Developed RMP and Prerequisite programmes
• Developed process validation protocols
• Internal/External audit experience

About us: Our values are at the heart of everything we do, and we want our people to display these values: Caring, Enthusiasm, Openness, Commitment, and Agility.

We care about our people, and in addition to a competitive base salary, we offer Health Insurance, Income Protection and Life Insurance and a Performance based bonus.