Quality Manager Trentham

AU03 Arch Wood Protect Pty Ltd; Trentham; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Arxada seeks a Quality Manager to lead the Trentham site quality function and support Melbourne head office and the R&T laboratory in Brooklyn. You will drive quality strategies, ensure compliance with ISO 9001, and coordinate audits and CAPA programs.

You will collaborate with Operations, Production, Research and regional/global quality teams to improve methods, reduce quality costs, and support product release decisions across materials and finished goods.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a site-level quality function in a manufacturing/regulatory environment.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems and data-integrity requirements.
• Experience with GC and HPLC analyses and laboratory operations.
• Experience with audits, CAPA, deviation investigations and non-conformance.
• Experience overseeing material and product release decisions and supplier qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment of quality strategies, systems and KPIs at the Trentham site.
• Lead laboratory function for production samples and instrumental methods.
• Maintain and improve the site quality management system (ISO 9001).
• Coordinate internal/external audits and drive CAPA closure.
• Manage release decisions and non-conformance investigations across materials and products.

Skills

Quality leadership

ISO 9001 knowledge

Auditing

Regulatory compliance

Data integrity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry/Engineering/QA

Tools

GC

HPLC

Job description

Arxada is a global leader in innovative solutions that protect our world. Our groundbreaking technologies, in-depth regulatory know-how, manufacturing and process development help our customers to safeguard nutrition, health and infrastructure efficiently through chemistry and biotechnology that enhance sustainability. We offer a broad portfolio of ingredients and services for multiple end-markets that include Human Health & Nutrition, Home & Personal Care, Professional Hygiene, Paints & Coatings and Wood Protection. With customers in more than 100 countries, the company achieved 2 billion CHF in 2025 sales. Headquartered in Basel (Switzerland), Arxada employs 3,100 associates across 24 production sites and 14 R&D centers, all committed to our customers’ success.

As a Quality Manager in Trentham, you will provide overall leadership for the site quality function while also supporting the Melbourne head office and the R&T laboratory in Brooklyn. Reporting to the Regional Quality Lead, you will play a vital role in implementing Arxada’s quality strategies, strengthening quality systems and ensuring that products and production processes meet applicable standards and regulatory requirements. This is an opportunity to collaborate closely with site leadership, operations, research and regional and global quality teams while driving meaningful improvements across the value chain.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead the deployment and implementation of Arxada’s quality strategies, systems and KPIs at the Trentham site.
• Lead the laboratory function, ensuring the efficient and accurate processing of production samples and the effective application of instrumental methods such as GC and HPLC.
• Establish, maintain and continuously improve the site quality management system in accordance with ISO 9001, applicable laws and regulations, data-integrity requirements and global standards.
• Coordinate internal and external quality audits, identify required corrective and preventive actions, respond to stakeholders and monitor CAPA plans through completion.
• Establish and manage systems governing the release or rejection of raw materials, intermediates, packaging materials and finished products.
• Lead product-quality reviews and non-conformance management, including investigations into quality anomalies, deviations and out-of-specification results.
• Manage customer quality complaints in compliance with global procedures.
• Manage supplier and toller quality, including qualification, performance, audits and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Production, the Site Leadership Team and Research to improve methods and processes, optimize quality costs and support design reviews, commercialization and post-launch investigations.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Demonstrated experience leading a site-level quality function within a manufacturing, chemical or similarly regulated environment.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems and applicable quality, regulatory and data-integrity requirements.
• Experience managing laboratory activities and working with analytical techniques, including GC and HPLC.
• Practical experience with audits, CAPA, deviation investigations, out-of-specification investigations and non-conformance management.
• Experience overseeing material and product release decisions as well as supplier and material qualification.
• Strong ability to collaborate across Operations, Production, Research, site functions, business units and regional and global quality teams.
• Ability to establish effective methods and procedures, make sound quality decisions and deliver results with guidance focused on broad goals.

Arxada has world class offering in two distinct areas: Microbial Control Solutions (MCS) focuses on threats posed by microorganisms to people and planet through five distinct business lines including Professional Hygiene, Home & Personal Care, Wood Protection, Paints & Coatings and Material Protection. Nutrition, Care & Environmental (NCE), meanwhile, provides materials used to manufacture composites for electronics, aerospace and other markets, as well as vitamins and nutritional ingredients, chemicals and performance intermediates, and raw materials for a wide range of high-performance applications.

Arxada is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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