MSQA - Technologist

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

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.

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

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