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This Position reports to: Manufacturing Unit Manager

Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you'll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact. We're looking for a dynamic Quality Manager to lead and embed our quality strategy across factory operations, supply chain, and customer interfaces. This pivotal role, based in Napier, Hawke's Bay, is focused on building a strong quality culture, implementing robust systems, and ensuring compliance with international standards while also inspiring and developing a high-performing team.

ABB's Smart Power facility is a global centre of excellence for power conditioning technologies, specializing in the research, development, and manufacturing of advanced solutions. This year, we were proud to be named Exporter of the Year at the ExportNZ ASB Hawke's Bay Export Awards and to receive the Ziwi Excellence in Innovation Award.

Work model: Onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and lead the local quality strategy in alignment with ABB's global quality management system, ensuring a strong quality culture and sustainable operations.
• Lead and develop a high-performing quality team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Drive continuous improvement through robust root cause analysis, data analytics, and preventive actions to achieve zero-defect performance.
• Execute effective audit programs to assess compliance with ISO, UL, and ABB's QWINS standards, ensuring certification requirements are met.
• Champion customer-focused quality management, embedding voice-of-the-customer into processes and driving resolution of customer cases through corrective actions.
• Act as a process owner/sponsor for assigned quality systems and tools, leading implementation, monitoring progress, and driving continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across functions to ensure quality is embedded in product and process design, and that risks and solutions are evaluated from a customer/stakeholder perspective.
• Coach and mentor team members, identifying development opportunities and supporting career growth within the quality function and broader operations.

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters—because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

Qualifications for the Role

• Extensive experience in quality management, ideally within manufacturing, engineering, or industrial operations.
• Proven track record in leading and developing teams, with a focus on building capability and driving engagement.
• Strong understanding of international quality standards (e.g., ISO 9001) and audit processes.
• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting, with the ability to use insights to drive improvements.
• Demonstrated success in leading quality improvement initiatives, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Project management capabilities, including planning, execution, and cross-functional coordination.
• Customer-focused mindset, with experience managing feedback and resolving quality-related issues.
• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements, ensuring adherence to internal and external standards.
• Technical or engineering background, supporting product and process quality from design through delivery.

We give you the space to lead, the support to grow, and the chance to make a difference. Whether you're solving problems, building something new, or helping others succeed, your impact is real. You'll be part of a team that values your voice and celebrates your progress.

More about us

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division's technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division's portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world's largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division's ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO? emissions.

• Implement and lead quality systems
• Foster engagement & improve quality culture
• Conduct assurance plans and investigations

Lead quality initiatives, ensure compliance, and improve quality culture across Transpower.

Our context

At the centre of the electricity sector in New Zealand, Transpower owns, plans, builds, maintains, and operates the National Grid: the backbone of New Zealand's energy infrastructure, a robust and reliable high voltage transmission network that connects areas of generation with towns, cities, and businesses across New Zealand to power our country and lives 24 hours a day seven days a week.

About the team

Within our Grid Delivery Division, our Quality and Compliance team works closely with other internal teams, external service providers, contractors, and consultants. They ensure quality is at the forefront of what we do, including in the planning of how the work on our transmission system and assets is delivered, and is planned to be delivered, ensuring it is done right.

This work is critically important in assuring that regulatory, code of practice, industry standards, and Transpower's business and contractual requirements are aligned with through monitoring grid compliance, handling breaches, and facilitating asset capability changes. It drives feedback, learning opportunities, insights, and fosters ongoing improvements to help realise investment, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operations outcomes.

This approach not only helps keep the lights on, but also ensures effective delivery of services to our internal and external Grid Delivery partners, customers, and regulators, and contributes to the advancement of our energy future.

About the role

As Quality Specialist, you will play a pivotal role within the team, directly supporting the Grid Quality and Compliance Manager, offering strategic advice and guidance on quality matters with the aim of improving Transpower's maturity in the quality arena.

Your work will cover several critical areas, including:

• ensuring effective implementation of quality systems.
• leading the quality work program.
• fostering robust engagement and relationships to enhance our quality culture.
• identifying key business processes and controls that drive quality.
• supporting and developing processes for handling non-conformance.
• implementing assurance plans to identify and resolve issues.
• Additionally, you will contribute to asset management objectives by verifying systems, processes, and practices meet expectations, and where required, conduct investigations into quality, reliability, and service non-conformances or incidents, subsequently collaborating with others to identify associated risks.

While based in Wellington, this role involves a mix of corporate, regional office, and field activities nationally, including coordination, analysis, and management reporting for the collective quality group. Your efforts will drive strong feedback loops, support continual improvement, and enhance management outcomes across our quality ecosystem.

What will you bring?

With a tertiary qualification or equivalent, ideally in Quality Management Systems, and/or potentially Asset Management, you will hold a current NZ driver's licence and will have a confirmed background in a related quality field!

You will possess excellent communication and organisation skills, with demonstrable ability to work effectively and lead priorities whilst not losing sight of timelines and emerging work streams. Your wider skills and experience will include:

• Analytical Skills: proficient in data interpretation and problem-solving.
• Quality Management: principles and ISO standards (e.g., ISO 9001)
• Stakeholder Engagement: strong skills engaging and building relationships with partners.
• Industry Standards: understanding of electricity industry standards and regulations.

The following are highly desirable and would be advantageous:

• Asset Management: experience with asset management (ISO 55001) and reliability systems.
• Project Management: knowledge of project management and service delivery in the electricity industry.
• Auditing Qualifications: lead auditing qualifications.
• Toolsets: experience with implementation toolsets for quality management systems and procedures.

Join us at Transpower!

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. Every home, every marae, every electric vehicle, every hospital relies on the electricity we manage and deliver. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders, every day and long into the future.

With over 28 nationalities, our people provide diverse perspectives, knowledge, and deep and varied experience which they love to share. Our environment is modern and family friendly with a flexible working policy.

We offer excellent employee health and wellness benefits - check them out here.

Please note: Existing eligibility to work in New Zealand is required for this role.

• New role to build, drive & own
• Nationwide scope with 2 years to nail it
• Open invitation to bring your skills & personality!

PKF combines the very best of grass roots independence, collective strength and global reach. With 200+ firms operating in 150 countries we’re the 15th largest accounting network globally. In New Zealand we have 12 independently owned member firms with deep local relationships and talent to burn. Where we collectively go next will be hugely impacted by you.

This senior role will further enhance our nationwide quality system and support our Kiwi firms secure “umbrella” status within the PKF Global network. This is about our New Zealand business cementing its position as an exceptional provider of quality solutions in a distinctly human way.

You know what a high performing quality function looks like and don’t need us to teach you to suck eggs. You’re in the driving seat and your insight and energy will guide us to get the job done. You’ll build trusted relationships with our 12 firms and review individual operations to understand where we’re collectively at. You’ll recommend where a shared approach, standards and templates will make the greatest difference and help us bridge the gap to achieve benchmark standards. You’ll be the pied piper for all things quality combined with a sincere goal to help, upskill and empower.

You can live anywhere in New Zealand. You can work from home or base yourself in any PKF office. You can be an employee or contractor. We think it’s going to demand full time hours but if you think differently let us know. What matters most is getting the job done and we trust that you know best about what this takes. You will relish independence and love responsibility. You will have multiple stories of the positive difference your knowledge, enthusiasm and care have made. You will want this challenge and picture yourself nailing it.

Our PKF team is talented yet humble, ambitious yet playful. We have an enviable combination of enjoying each other’s company while striving for ambitious goals. We understand why quality is important and want you to be part of our team helping us stay accountable, continuously improving and having fun together along the way. This is an invitation to bring your A game, make a tangible difference and be your best self.