Principal Quality Assurance

• Opportunity to make a positive impact in our community
• Varied, Challenging and interesting work
• Work as part of a highly engaged, friendly and cohesive team

About the role

Make a difference in your community as part of the Quality Assurance (Building) team, this role is permanent full-time 40 hours per week.

As our Principal Quality & Assurance, you will play a key role in ensuring our systems, processes, policies, and people are supported to deliver high-quality outcomes. You will work closely with operational leaders and stakeholders to drive continuous improvement, maintain accreditation requirements, support capability development, and strengthen quality assurance practices across the Building Control Unit.

As a Principal Quality Assurance, you’ll be

• Leading the development, review, and implementation of operational policies, procedures, and guidance documentation.
• Managing and continuously improving the Building Consent Authority Quality Management System.
• Coordinating internal audits, competency assessments, and quality assurance activities.
• Facilitating staff training, capability development, and continuous learning opportunities.
• Identifying and delivering process improvements that enhance efficiency, compliance, and customer outcomes.
• Supporting accreditation requirements and external audits.
• Leading improvement projects and collaborating across teams to ensure successful delivery of business initiatives.
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across the regulatory environment.

Job Description

About you

You'll be a motivated quality and policy professional who enjoys solving problems, influencing change, and working collaboratively to achieve results.

To be successful, you will bring:

• Significant experience in quality assurance, policy development, process improvement, capability development, or a related field
• Strong knowledge of regulatory environments, compliance frameworks, and quality management systems.
• The ability to analyse business processes and identify practical improvement opportunities.
• Experience leading audits, developing procedures, and implementing quality initiatives.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Confidence coaching, training, and supporting technical teams.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Experience within Building Control, regulatory services, local government, or accreditation environments will be highly regarded.

What we offer

• Free access to Council pools
• Discounted memberships / premiums
• Flexible working arrangements
• Ongoing development and wellbeing support
• Additional leave days over and above 4 weeks annual leave

We’re committed to providing a working environment that embraces, values and reflects the diversity of the community we serve.

We recognise rewarding you is not only about your pay, so we’ve outlined some of the great benefits that may be available to you. Read more about them here: careers.huttcity.govt.nz/your-total-rewards

Applications close Monday 30 November 2026

Please note we may review applications before the closing date and encourage you to apply as soon as possible. We reserve the right to withdraw the job advertisement at any time.