An exciting opportunity to lead and maintain the quality management of the Milton Keynes manufacturing site. Maintain the requirements for the quality certifications, to ensure that customer concerns and site quality issues are resolved effectively and efficiently.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Ensure site compliance with IATF16949 and ISO9001 standards; arrange and facilitate appropriate internal and external site audits, maintain integrity and consistently review site documents – electronic or otherwise – to ensure compliance with site and regulatory requirements.
2. Co-ordinate site response to customer quality and application complaints, including direct liaison with other company sites, technical centres, business and customer account managers.
3. Co-ordinate site raw material quality concerns, ensuring issues are resolved in a timely and efficient way.
4. Support Physical Testing and Finish Product Releasing.
5. Maintain site control plans and process FMEAs.
6. Conduct annual site management review.
7. Manage the site calibrations system to ensure all equipment is maintained within the appropriate calibration regime.
8. Liaise with Logistics Supervisor to ensure slow moving stock is kept within target.
9. Manage blocked stocks to ensure that they are assessed for opportunities to rework wherever possible and sell to trader when this is not feasible.
10. Provide accurate and timely reports to Site Management team relating to product, quality and performance issues.
11. Represent MK plant at regular corporate quality meetings.
12. Attend other company locations from time to time as part of internal auditing team.
13. Be the focal point for intra company knowledge exchange and sharing of best practice.
14. Liaise closely with Operations team and QC Technicians to ascertain daily plant quality issues.
15. Liaise with Operations department to identify and recommend training and development requirements of Shift Quality Controllers.
16. Liaise with product application and development group, in conjunction with asset management, for the introduction of new products.
17. Identify and specify replacement QC lab equipment as and when appropriate.
18. Duty manager responsibility for site emergencies on a rota basis.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
Education: Science Degree or HNC or equivalent.
Work Experience:
* Previous experience of quality assurance.
* Previous experience in plastics industry preferred.
Licenses & Certifications:
* Instils Trust and Exemplifies Integrity – Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
* Collaborates – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives, within and across functions.
* Ensures Accountability – Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Skills:
* Fluent in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
* Experienced in SAP, or a similar package, would be an advantage.
Company Benefits:
The holiday entitlement is 25 days/annum plus bank holidays.
We offer membership of the Company Defined Contribution Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 10% matching double employee contributions.
We also offer Private Healthcare, Group Life & Income Protection insurances, a Health Cash Plan and a Cycle to Work Scheme.
Working hours 8.00-16.00 Monday-Friday.
Please let us know we need to make reasonable adjustments to our process, please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make the adjustments that may be needed.
Altitude-Recruitment Limited acting as an Employment Agency and Employment Business.
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Quality Assurance
Industries: Staffing and Recruiting
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