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.
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, Blowmoulding 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 RMB 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
No direct reports member of site MSQA team.
12 hour continental shift pattern.
Behavioural Competencies / Personal Characteristics:
* Communication – communicates at all levels clearly, listens and involves others in direction and goal setting.
* Team Building – Builds effective relationships with people at all levels, while motivating and energising others.
* Leadership – Takes responsibility for initiatives.
* Commitment to self-development – Is not limited by previous experience and engages actively in improvement activities.
* Leading Change – Supports the introduction of change leading to improvements.
* Drive and self-motivation – Achieves success with others, consistently operates as an example for others.
* Meeting customer needs – Understands the importance of identifying and meeting the needs of external and internal customers.
* Building customer focus – Works consistently to achieve customer focus and improve service standards within the team.
* Performance focus – Uses resources effectively, with a clear focus on critical tasks and the achievement of objectives.
* Decision-making – Analyses situations, makes sound judgements and takes appropriate decisions.
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 (blowmoulded bottles,labels, outercases, closures)
* Experience in Continuous Improvement Projects
* Qualified in a Technical / Quality subject preferably to ‘A’ Level standard / equivalent or above
* Computer Literate (Excel. Word. e-mail)
* Experience of internal auditing