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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 9001:2(Apply online only)
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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