Quality Manager
Location: Melbourne
Work Type: Permanent
Senior Quality Consultant
Lead transformational quality initiatives in a growing, highly regulated manufacturing environment.
Are you an experienced Quality professional who enjoys building systems, driving compliance, and delivering meaningful organisational change?
Hoban Recruitment is partnering with a leading Australian manufacturing business to recruit a Senior Quality Consultant for a newly created 12-month contract. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in strengthening quality systems, improving compliance frameworks, and supporting a business undergoing significant transformation.
Based in Carrum Downs, this position offers the opportunity to influence strategic quality outcomes while working closely with senior leadership.
The Opportunity
This is not a traditional Quality Assurance role.
You'll be the most senior quality specialist onsite, taking a consultative and advisory approach to reviewing existing systems, identifying opportunities for improvement, and implementing sustainable quality and compliance frameworks across the business.
Working alongside an established QA team, you'll provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and partner with stakeholders to ensure quality systems meet both customer and regulatory expectations.
Key Responsibilities
Conduct a comprehensive review and gap analysis of existing quality and compliance systems
Assess current processes against future business and regulatory requirements
Identify compliance risks and recommend practical improvement strategies
Develop and deliver an implementation roadmap for quality system enhancements
Lead quality improvement projects over a nine-month implementation period
Build, improve and standardise quality management systems, policies and procedures
Support customer audits and ensure ongoing regulatory compliance
Investigate customer quality concerns and oversee corrective and preventative actions (CAPA)
Provide coaching and technical guidance to the Quality team
Partner with operational leaders to embed continuous improvement and quality best practice
About You
You are a strategic quality professional who enjoys solving complex problems, influencing stakeholders, and building quality systems that create lasting business improvement.
To be successful, you'll ideally bring:
Extensive experience within Quality Assurance, Quality Systems or Compliance
Strong knowledge of GMP and quality management systems
Proven experience conducting quality gap analyses and implementing improvement programs
Experience interpreting quality standards and translating them into practical business processes
Strong auditing capability across GMP and/or ISO environments
Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Experience working with regulated customers and managing customer audits
A tertiary qualification in Science, Quality, Technical or a related discipline
Experience using PECS (essential)
Highly regarded:
Pharmaceutical manufacturing experience
Clean room manufacturing environments
Textile, garment or industrial manufacturing experience
Experience within highly regulated industries
What's on Offer
$120,000-$150,000 + Super
12-month fixed-term contract with genuine potential for permanency
Newly created position with significant autonomy and influence
Opportunity to lead business-wide quality transformation projects
Supportive leadership team committed to continuous improvement
Work within a well-established organisation experiencing strong growth and positive organisational change
Make a genuine impact while helping shape the future of the business
Apply Now
If you're an experienced quality professional looking to step into a strategic role where you can drive meaningful change and leave a lasting legacy, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today with your resume or contact the Hoban Recruitment team for a confidential discussion.
At HOBAN we encourage applications from people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people of all genders, LGBTI people, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
We provide reasonable adjustments; including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with disability. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please email our Adjustments Coordinator at adjustments@hoban.com.au or visit hoban.com.au/adjustments for additional contact details.
Reference ID: BBBH311262
Company: HOBAN Recruitment
Date Posted: Friday 10 July, 11:57am
2026-07-10