Quality Assurance Technician

Quality Assurance Technician | FMCG | Manufacturing | Permanent | Middleton
If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.
Shift: 4on, 4off shift pattern (x2 days, x2 nights)
Salary: £35,100 per annum (inclusive of shift premium)
Location: Middleton
Key Responsibilities include
* Be conversant in packaging production processes and associated quality procedures to support manufacturing and facilitate solutions to quality related issues.
* Support incident investigations that identify root causes of major non-conformances. Working with Filling, Blow moulding and Logistics personnel to conduct effective investigations.
* Generate/collate data and evaluation of quality failures in materials or intermediate/finished goods attributes to drive cost reduction, performance improvement and less waste.
* Audit/contact suppliers as and when required, ensuring all processes and procedures in place are suitable for the clients requirements.
* Communicating all non-conforming raw material information quickly and ensuring as far as possible that suppliers introduce their own preventative actions.
* Provide support for first production batches to ensure that they are correctly set and that quality is acceptable with the customer.
* Attend Departmental Communication Briefs and promote generation and discussion of new ideas with departmental colleagues.
* Audit procedures to confirm compliance.
* Communicate with other department colleagues to share learnings/resolve issues promptly.
* Raise Health & Safety standards by performing planned inspections, risk assessments and accident investigations.
Key Result Areas
* Increased technical understanding of blending operation, filling and blow moulding improvement areas.
* Involvement of key site projects to plan.
* Reduced downtime and operating costs through improved internal and external quality of goods/materials.
* Identification and implementation of cost reduction initiatives through process development.
* Improved processes for implementation of new products / improvements / changes to existing products.
* Demonstrate improvement in departmental KPI’s through effective monitoring and review.
* Quantifiable improvement in cost of goods, supplier conformance, internal conformance.
Relevant and Quantifiable Measures
* Drives improvement, change, cost reduction, efficiency improvement and supports department teams to deliver continuous improvement.
* Supports projects, provides information and development of their own skills.
* Ensure development and fulfilment of the Site and Company Business Plans.
* Contribute and support site and group business objectives through core values.
Technical Competencies & Qualifications
* Understanding of Weights and measures legislation and European Standards.
* QA/QC/EHS experience, in an FMCG environment.
* Understanding of key packaging materials (blow moulded bottles, labels, outer cases, closures).
* Experience in Continuous Improvement Projects.
* Qualified in a Technical / Quality subject preferably to ‘A’ Level standard / equivalent or above.
* Computer Literate (excel, word, email).
* Experience of internal auditing.
To apply for this position, please submit your CV online making sure you highlight the experience and skills which relate to the role.
Please note - due to the number of applications we receive we are only able to contact those candidates that are successfully shortlisted for the position. If you do not hear from us within 7 days of your application, then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful.
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