Site Quality & Compliance Manager Rolleston

A bit about your role

This is a pivotal leadership opportunity to shape and strengthen quality, food safety and compliance across one of New Zealand's leading dairy manufacturing operations.

As the Site Quality & Compliance Manager, you will provide both strategic direction and operational leadership for all quality, food safety and regulatory activities at our Rolleston site. You will be responsible for ensuring our products, systems and processes consistently meet customer, regulatory and business requirements while fostering a culture where quality excellence is embedded in everything we do.

Reporting to the General Manager - Site, with a dotted reporting line to the General Manager Quality, you will lead a high-performing team of quality professionals and play a key role within the Site Leadership Team. Partnering closely with Supply Chain, Innovation, Operations and the wider Yili Oceania Quality network, you will drive continuous improvement initiatives, champion best practice quality systems and support the delivery of safe, compliant and high-quality products to customers around the world.

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across the business while helping shape the future of quality performance within a growing international dairy organisation.

A bit about you

You are a passionate and influential quality leader who thrives in fast-paced manufacturing environments and is motivated by delivering exceptional food safety, quality and compliance outcomes.

With proven experience leading quality and compliance functions, ideally within dairy, food manufacturing or other highly regulated industries, you bring strong technical expertise across quality systems, regulatory requirements, customer standards and certification programmes. You understand how to balance strategic priorities with operational excellence and are confident making sound decisions in complex environments.

Equally important is your ability to lead and inspire people. You build strong relationships across all levels of an organisation, develop high-performing teams through coaching and mentoring, and have the ability to influence positive change. Your collaborative approach, commercial mindset and commitment to continuous improvement enable you to drive sustainable results while maintaining the highest standards of quality and compliance.

A bit about the organisation

At Yili Oceania Business Division (YOBD), we are passionate about producing world-class dairy and nutritional products that are enjoyed by consumers across the globe. Quality, food safety and innovation sit at the heart of everything we do, helping us deliver trusted products to international markets while continuing to grow and evolve.

Westland Milk Products is a proudly New Zealand-owned dairy manufacturer with a rich history and a reputation for producing premium dairy ingredients and nutrition products. With operations spanning Christchurch, Hokitika, Rolleston, Glenavy, Hamilton and Auckland, we are part of the global Yili Group, one of the world's top five dairy companies.

Together, Westland Milk Products, Oceania Dairy, Pure Nutrition, Canary Foods and EasiYo form the Yili Oceania group, manufacturing over 170,000MT of finished products annually and exporting to more than 40 countries worldwide. With annual revenue exceeding $1.3 billion and continued investment in growth and innovation, there has never been a more exciting time to join our business.

Where to from here?

If you're excited by the opportunity to lead quality excellence within a global dairy business, we'd love to hear from you. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Research shows that many great candidates underestimate their suitability, and we'd rather have the conversation.

Please submit your application via westlandcareers.co.nz or ODL. For further information, please refer to the accompanying position description.

Applications close on 29th November 2026 , however applications will be reviewed as they are received and we reserve the right to close advertising earlier if a suitable candidate is identified. We encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in New Zealand.