Job Description:

Multi Skilled QA Technician

Location: Middleton

Pay Rate: £15.57 per hour

Contract: Temporary ongoing contract

Shift Pattern: 4 on / 4 off rota (2 days, 2 nights)

Multi Skilled QA Technician

Job Purpose

To support day-to-day quality assurance activities on site, ensuring products meet quality, safety and compliance standards (including BRC), while supporting production and continuous improvement.

Multi Skilled QA Technician

Key Activities

• Contribute to site CI projects to improve the overall quality of raw materials and finished products, environmental impact and/or productivity.
• Provide flexible QA/Analytical support to blending, blowmould and filling processes to assist and ensure conformance in each of the departments in relation to quality-related issues.
• Generate/collate data and evaluate quality failures in materials or intermediate/finished goods attributes to drive cost reduction, performance improvement and reduce waste.
• Where agreed with the Quality Manager, undertake project work related to the prevention of customer complaints and major rework.
• Support incident investigations that identify root causes of major non-conformances, working with Filling, Blowmoulding and Logistics personnel to conduct effective investigations.
• Be conversant in packaging production processes and associated quality procedures to support production and facilitate solutions to quality-related issues.
• Audit/contact suppliers as and when required, ensuring all processes and procedures in place are suitable for RMB requirements.
• Communicate all non-conforming raw material information quickly and ensure, as far as possible, that suppliers introduce their own preventative actions.
• Support investigations into consumer/customer complaints.
• Communicate fully with other team members between shifts to ensure efficient solutions to problems and completion of common goals.
• Provide support for first production batches to ensure that they are correctly set and that quality is acceptable to the customer.
• When needed, undertake QC testing following the Quality Procedures/Instructions for all liquid samples.
• Produce Management Information as required.
• Ensure changes to work procedures are communicated to relevant departments. Audit procedures to confirm compliance.
• Raise Health & Safety standards by performing planned inspections, risk assessments and accident investigations.

Multi Skilled QA Technician

Skills & Experience Required

• A HSE qualification or demonstrable experience working within a safety/environmental role.
• Appreciation of quality assurance systems including:
• ISO 9001:2000
• SGS Laboratory Accreditation
• SGS Supplier Accreditation
• Understanding of Weights and Measures legislation and European Standards.
• QA/QC/EHS experience in an FMCG environment.
• Understanding of key packaging materials (blowmoulded 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.

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