Quality Assurance Technologist Wiri

StraitNZ; Manurewa; On-site; NZD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading snack food company focusing on food safety and quality at their Wiri manufacturing site. In this fast-paced role, you'll champion quality standards, influence cross-functional teams, and contribute to their commitment to continuous improvement in food products. With responsibilities ranging from compliance to audits, this role offers an opportunity for professional growth in the FMCG sector.

Benefits

Free onsite parking

Supportive team environment

Wellness focus

Qualifications

• 2-3 years' experience in a Quality Assurance role in FMCG.
• Experience with HACCP and food safety risk assessments.
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Champion Food Safety and Quality practices.
• Manage compliance to legal and customer standards.
• Conduct root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Skills

Food Safety

Quality Assurance

Root Cause Analysis

Communication

Organization

Education

Tertiary qualification in Food Science

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Are you passionate about food safety and quality, and making a real impact on what people eat every day? Do you thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and enjoy influencing cross-functional teams toward higher standards? If so, we want you on our team. Here at Griffin’s Snacks, we’re proud of our heritage and are New Zealand’s largest snack food company, producing many much-loved Kiwi brands, including Griffin’s biscuits, Huntley & Palmers crackers, Nice & Natural bars and ETA potato chips.

Reporting to our Food Safety & Quality Manager this full-time role is based at our Wiri manufacturing site, where you’ll enjoy varied work, a great team and free onsite parking. As part of our commitment to support our shift-based operation, the preferred working hours for this role will be Monday to Friday 6:00am-2:30pm. Flexibility is essential as this role may require occasional weekend or after-hours coverage to support our food safety and quality activities.

No two days will be the same in this dynamic role, where you'll champion Food Safety and Quality while supporting the implementation and continuous improvement of our Quality Management System — ensuring the consistent delivery of safe, high-quality food to our consumers.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Encouraging a culture of Food Safety & Quality and driving best practice GMP behaviours
• Developing relationships with the wider team to both influence and encourage food safety best practice
• Root cause analysis and identifying both corrective and preventive actions
• Managing pre-requisite programmes
• Ensuring compliance to Legal, GFSI and Customer Standards (including active participation in internal/external audits and completing tasks to a standard that meets all requirements)
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of our Quality Management System through participation in HACCP reviews, including CCP and QCP validation
• Investigating customer complaints and internal corrective action requests and assist with the development of preventive actions
• Generating relevant reports and supporting with project work as and when required

What you’ll bring to the role?

• 2 - 3 years’ experience in a Quality Assurance role, ideally in FMCG food manufacturing environment
• A tertiary qualification in Food Science, Food Technology or similar.
• Experience with food safety & quality risk assessments
• Experience with HACCP and Internal Audit Training
• Confidence using MS Office products including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint (extra tick if you have used PowerApps)
• Excellent written/verbal communication and relationship building skills – you work well in a team and can influence others when needed!
• A passion for sharing your knowledge with others.
• Exceptional organisation skills – you’re a pro at juggling multiple balls and can easily jump between tasks.
• Accountability – you own your decisions and can be counted on to do what you say you will.
• Positivity, self-motivation, and a solutions-focused approach– you see road bumps as a challenge, not a disaster!
• An innovative, inquisitive approach and ‘out of box thinking’.
• An eagerness to learn and develop your career with us!

What can you expect in return? You can expect to be part of a supportive, purpose driven team where you'll feel valued, genuine growth opportunities, commitment to our community partnerships and a focus on wellness!

If you have the experience we are looking for and you wish to join a company where you can have pride and passion in what you do, please APPLY NOW and submit your application form below!

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Here at Griffin’s Snacks we’re proudly owned by Intersnack, a private company founded in Germany in 1968. Although internationally owned, we are still very much a local company - we manufacture our great tasting products across four factories in New Zealand (two in South Auckland and one each in Wellington and Nelson) and employ over 800 people nationwide.

For over 160 years, we’ve been making some of New Zealand’s favourite biscuits, crackers, potato chips and bars and it’s been a pretty delicious journey, but for us, it’s been about more than just the food. Ever since John Griffin opened our first factory early in the 19th century, our communities have mattered to us too. We’re about getting stuck in and helping where we can, so everyone gets the chance to share in our passion for life and food.

Across all of our manufacturing sites, we encourage a work environment that is exciting, challenging and we strive for innovation in everything we do. Our aim is for our people to share in our success, enjoy our products and reap the benefits of their hard work within a supportive environment where work-life balance is encouraged, and genuine growth and career opportunities are on offer.

In joining the Intersnack family, we now are a part of their global business – adding to their large portfolio of local and international snack brands, from potato chips, nuts, and baked products to specialty snacks. Intersnack are present in over 30 countries across Europe, Australia, New Zealand and beyond and are passionate about enriching people's lives with the right choice of great-tasting snacks. Every day, more than 15 million consumers around the globe enjoy products from the range of Intersnack brands!