Quality Assurance Manager

About the role

Reporting to the Site Operations Manager, this role is accountable for Quality Management System of the Barossa Packaging Centre. It will be responsible for maintaining and improving the quality and food safety of product, working with packaging and winery operations, group technical, procurement and suppliers to reduce non-conformances and to achieve quality right first time.

• Manage and review current and potential issues with packaging materials, wine quality, food safety, food defense, hygiene processes and finished goods.
• Collaborate on, develop and maintain framework for packaging materials standards
• Ensure Quality evaluation response protocols are relevant to support business operations 
• Collaborate with the Packaging Capability & Technologist Manager 
• Ensure site initiates MyQI incidents to report dry goods performance issues for timely containment,
• Overall governance of the ANZ Closure Assessment Facility, ensuring global alignment, including liaising with Cork Suppliers on business needs and expectations as required. 

About you

With a tertiary science, food science, engineering qualifications coupled with proven experience in manufacturing QA / beverage / food processing environment you will have well developed communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.

• Project Management with results focus
• Sound problem solving and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to generate concise and detailed reports
• Experience conducting technical trials. 
• Experience with food safety systems. 
• Experience in a continuous process packaging/ manufacturing environment

What’s in it for you

• AFR Boss Best Places to Work Top 10 Manufacturing and Consumer 2023
• Access to the world’s most admired wines through our employee product allowance
• Flexible/hybrid environment to empower you to be your best
• Global opportunities across Australia & New Zealand, the US, Asia, UK/Europe
• Opportunity to build a career across multiple functions (we’re really good at doing this!)
• Structured development programs to support your health, wellbeing and career
• “TWEforME Day” – an additional day of leave each year, for you to do you
• Meeting-free Monday mornings (we all love this!)

The Supply Way

"Our Supply Brand Vision is to be the custodians of TWE's present and future, and the partner of choice for our divisions, customers and suppliers. To be truly representative custodians and partners of choice, we need to be aligned on the way we do things, on the way we show up to work every day, on our behaviour and our values.  It is this shared mindset and shared set of principles that are unique to Supply that we call The Supply Way. 

What’s it like to work here?

We bring our whole selves, we’re courageous and we deliver together – that’s our DNA. We’re a passionate bunch who enjoy working together, like to have fun and keep things down-to-earth.  We’re brave enough and care enough to have the right conversations to get the best outcome and are famous for our can-do attitude. We’re definitely “glass half full” people and see challenges as opportunities and move with pace to achieve our goals.

If you’re ready to help us be the world’s most admired premium wine company, please apply now!

It takes all varietals!

Just like the wide range and variety of brands in our wine portfolio, TWE embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin or on the basis of disability.  If you require any assistance to be included in our process, please contact recruitment@tweglobal.com, quoting the job title and reference number.

How to apply

We move quickly at TWE and continually review applications, so if you don’t want to miss out, apply today.

Please note that cover letters are not required (we really mean this!)  All applicants will receive an email to invite them to complete online assessments that will cover three areas: personality profile, cultural fit and a cognitive assessment.  The assessments should take around 30 minutes in total and you will be able to download a report at the end of it.  We will then be in touch ASAP to update you on how your application is progressing.  We ask you to try to complete the assessments ASAP – ideally within 24 to 48 hours.

Note that we prefer to deal with you directly; we haven’t briefed a recruitment agency on this role and won’t be accepting CVs through any recruitment agency, so please apply directly.