Process, Health and Safety, Quality Systems Manager

2 weeks ago

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Yvette Harrison Full time
A dynamic and innovative company focused on achieving excellence

  • Be a Leader in a passionate, collaborative workplace with a great culture
  • Three areas of focus: manage systems and drive for improvement

Who will you be working for?
Kiwicare Holdings is a proudly New Zealand owned and operated organisation with offices in Auckland, Christchurch, and Brisbane.

It offers product solutions that are driven by their purpose to make your place a better place, and they see this as helping people be heroes in their homes, their gardens, and our communities.


Kiwicare has well-known leading FMCG consumer brands and products across garden, pest, homewares, camping and cleaning products distributed through major and individual retail outlets, government, landowners and professional operators throughout New Zealand & Australia.

The company has invested heavily in its purpose-built manufacturing facility in Christchurch, together with an on-site laboratory and large-scale distribution centre in Aucklandand further investment is on the horizon.

Kiwicare is all about its people.

They live by their PACE values:
developing and nurturing a

Passionate and

Accountable team and striving to foster a

Collaborative environment where their people can deliver

Exceptional outcomes. These values embody their culture and speak to what it's like to work at Kiwicare.

This broad-based role offers you an excellent opportunity to add value and make your mark.

What will you be doing?
This is a leadership role with accountability for key three areas: Process, Health and Safety, and Quality Systems.

Your role - to develop the strategies, establish systems and structure, and drive a culture that is committed to safety and quality.


  • Process and

Production Engineering:

You will lead the production engineering team and influence throughout the production environment to increase productivity by being clever, better and different.

This will be driven by metrics such as improvement in capability, capacity, sustainability, quality, health and safety and profitability. This will include managing a number of significant plant improvement or capex projects.

  • Quality Systems: You will take charge of the implementation and maintenance of the quality management system, ensuring compliance to all regulatory requirements and customer standards.
  • Health and Safety: You will support the organisation's commitment to providing and healthy and safe working environment. In this capacity you will focus on the implementation of HS&E standards across the business (e.g. ISO and work closely with the People and Culture team to ensure a safe and healthy workforce is maintained.

Who are we looking for?
Throughout your career you have proven your ability to establish and maintain systems that have led to operational excellence and set businesses up for future success

You will bring:

  • A relevant qualification in Engineering, Technology or other related disciplines.
  • Demonstrable experience in the disciplines of Process Engineering, Health and Safety and Quality Management.
  • Project management and system implementation experience.
  • Strengths as a leader and influencer. You foster collaboration to drive accountability and results.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex ideas to a range of audiences: senior management and consultants to those on the factory floor.
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