Lead Technical Excellence in Organic Certification
Location: Flexible - preference for Auckland, Hamilton or Christchurch
AsureQuality is seeking an experienced Technical Manager – Organics to provide technical leadership and oversight across our organic certification programmes. This is a key role responsible for ensuring programme integrity, regulatory compliance, accreditation requirements, and strong stakeholder relationships within New Zealand's growing organic sector.
Working closely with regulators, standard owners, industry bodies, producers, processors, and certification partners, you'll help ensure our programmes continue to deliver trusted certification outcomes while supporting the future growth of the organic industry.
About You
You are a highly credible technical professional with experience in certification, compliance, auditing, quality systems, or assurance programmes. You enjoy working with a wide range of stakeholders and can confidently interpret standards and technical requirements while providing practical guidance and leadership.
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
Ideally, you'll also have:
Whether your background comes from organics, food assurance, primary industries, product certification, or quality systems management, you'll bring the technical expertise and leadership capability needed to support programme excellence and industry confidence.
Helping Aotearoa shape a better food world - Join us today!
As Kaitiaki Kai, guardians of food, we work with care and passion to support Aotearoa’s primary industry and food producers. Working closely with our partners, at every point of their supply chains, sharing the knowledge and insights gained from over 100 years’ experience.
Everyday our experienced team of over 1700 people work alongside farmers, producers, and others throughout the food supply chain to help them uphold what Aotearoa stands for in food - a higher standard of quality and safety.
Owned by the New Zealand Government, our name helps inspire confidence. We deliver independence of the highest integrity. Helping Aotearoa uphold a higher standard in food as our partners proudly take their products to the world. We are proud to work with them to help build and protect this enduring trust in food.
We have a deep responsibility to do the right thing for food and the environments it comes from. Collaborating, sharing knowledge, resources and skills so that everyone benefits – not just in the immediate future, but for generations to come.
We offer workplace flexibility, employment benefits and are committed to attracting, developing and retaining great people, and supporting them to be the best they can be. We know diverse teams are stronger teams and we believe in fairness and opportunity for all.
If helping Aotearoa shape a better food world inspires and motivates you - join us today!
