Job Description
This is a quality system you get to own and modernise, with a team that grows underneath you, the backing of a global parent, and two trips a year to Italy.
For more than 45 years, this Brisbane manufacturer has built robotic laboratory instruments that sort, decap, reseal and aspirate samples, helping laboratories deliver faster results to patients.
Its 100-person site includes 45 engineers, supported by another 15 in Europe.
Now part of a global automation group, the business has six new products launching over the next two years.
This newly shaped role takes operational quality leadership as the current Director moves fully into regulatory.
You will own the ISO ***** system, audits, CAPA, complaints, document control and supplier quality across 400 suppliers.
Leading a team of three to four, you will work closely with engineering and production and oversee quality at the Turin site.
The system is certified and audit‐ready, but ready to be modernised by someone who knows what a leading quality system looks like.
Why You Will Working Here
The quality function is yours.
Nobody looking over your shoulder
A compliant system that is genuinely ready to be modernised
Global parent backing with decisions still made here in Brisbane
Two trips a year to the Italian site, right below the Alps
An overseas supplier audit trip on top of the Italy travel
Lead a team of four that grows as the site grows
Direct access to 60 engineers across every discipline
Six recent products landing.
Build and improve, not maintenance
Robotics and automation.
The product range is genuinely diverse
What you sign off speeds up pathology results for patients




Clean external audit history.
No compliance mess to inherit
Proper handover from the person who built the system
Formal 90-day induction, then real autonomy after that
Your predecessor has been here 23 years.
People stay here
Solar-powered site with an established environmental program
Charity work including prosthetic hand builds and kids' bikes
Two lunchrooms, coffee machines and a real social club
Free on-site and street parking and a straight run up the highway
Bonus scheme on top of your base salary
Responsibilities
Own the ISO ***** quality management system end to end
Run the internal audit program and host the external auditors
Lead CAPA from investigation through to verified closure
Manage customer complaints and the root causes behind them
Run the supplier quality program across 400 suppliers
Lead supplier corrective actions and performance reviews
Oversee quality at the Italian site, including annual audits
Own document control across the whole business
Lead and develop the inspection team and a quality engineer
Report quality metrics to the senior leadership group
Essential Skills
Quality system leadership in regulated or technical manufacturing
Internal and external audit, CAPA, NCR and document control
Proven people leadership including reviews and budgets
Supplier quality program ownership and corrective actions
ISO ***** preferred.
ISO **** and comparable considered
Comfortable working with engineering on product quality
Lead Auditor, Six Sigma or Lean certification an advantage
Able to travel internationally around three times a year
Full Australian working rights.
Sponsorship is not available

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