Quality Improvement Leader: Drive Excellence & Growth

Sealed Air; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Sealed Air in Hamilton, New Zealand, is seeking a Quality Improvement Leader to drive quality, food safety, customer satisfaction, and operational performance across the business. Reporting to the Hamilton Quality Manager, you will lead a two-person Quality Leaders team and collaborate with manufacturing and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, solve quality challenges, and deliver measurable improvements.

This role emphasizes accountability and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Science, or related discipline.
• Experience in quality leadership within manufacturing, packaging, FMCG, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of quality systems and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Six Sigma Green Belt certification, or willingness to achieve certification within 12 months.
• Experience leading quality improvement projects.
• Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality improvement initiatives across Hamilton operations.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement and customer focus.
• Coach, support, and develop team capability.
• Maintain quality management systems aligned with regulatory, ISO, and company requirements.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Facilitate continuous improvement and Kaizen projects.
• Partner with manufacturing teams to improve quality performance and reduce waste, spoilage, and blocked stock.
• Support successful new product introductions.
• Act as the voice of the customer and support complaint resolution activities.

Skills

Quality leadership

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Coaching

MS Office

Education

Tertiary qualification in Engineering/Science

Six Sigma Green Belt

Job description

Sealed Air in Hamilton, New Zealand, is seeking a Quality Improvement Leader to drive quality, food safety, customer satisfaction, and operational performance across the business. Reporting to the Hamilton Quality Manager, you will lead a two-person Quality Leaders team and collaborate with manufacturing and cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, solve quality challenges, and deliver measurable improvements.

This role emphasizes accountability and continuous learning.