This is an exciting opportunity for a detail-oriented professional to contribute to a company committed to producing high-quality products. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring product and system compliance with stringent quality standards, driving continuous improvement, and maintaining excellence in every aspect of the manufacturing process.

Role and Responsibilities

• Perform regular testing and audits to ensure compliance.
• Supporting the business areas to uphold continuity of supply
• Ensuring that the manufacturing processes use the right method, with the correctly chosen tools and raw materials
• Collaborate with different departments to develop corrective actions, solutions, controls and improvements.
• Drive continuous improvement.
• Inspecting and testing of materials, processes and products to ensure specifications are being met
• Ability to identify issues, segregate non-conforming products
• Perform internal audits and provide support for external and supplier audits to ISO9001
• Ability to research, analyse and report within a manufacturing environment
• Implementing change from reactive to proactive practices
• Ensuring Quality Plans are adhered to
• Ensuring safe and high standard of packaging of all customer products
• Work with internal teams to increase customer satisfaction by reducing scrap and reworks and increasing tonnage.

Person Specification

The successful candidates will need to demonstrate on a sustained basis in their employment the following.

• Report to the Quality Manager and work on 12-hour shifts on rotating continental shift pattern
• Ability to organise, count, measure and record material
• Manage stressful situations
• Understanding and adherence in both written and verbal work instructions
• Communicate clearly with existing and potential external partners and to other staff, in respect to activities processes and methodologies employed in the department
• Highly self-motivated, disciplined and organised
• Time Management, delivering a high and sustained standard of attendance and timekeeping
• Able and willing to commit to working shift patterns and overtime as required
• Being customer focused
• Flexibility to change
• Meeting deadlines and multi tasking
• Focus on cost management, and absolute adherence to Quality Requirements
• Applicants will ideally have experience in extrusion where optimising quality of performance and output are key performance measurements
• Knowledge and application of lean manufacturing techniques is highly desirable