Quality Controls Manager
Milton Keynes
£30-35k plus holiday, pension, private health

A fantastic opportunity to join a multi site, world leading manufacturing business with a presence in the world market for over 40 years and a manufacturing presence in 6 countries. Our client is looking for an Quality Control Manager to lead and motivate their quality team on site. The role is ideal for someone with a background driving performance, coaching and training those around them, as well as being a good problem solver.

Our client produces products that are used within the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and packaged goods industries, and boast over 10000 customers worldwide. Should you have a solid background within a chemical, pharmaceutical or adhesives background then this role might be of real interest.

Responsibilities 

Supervise and  manage the quality team technicians and provide guidance and feedback
Understand   customer  needs   and   requirements  to  develop effective quality control  processes                                                          
Completion  of  complaints  and  other  reports  where  needed, running   technical   performance   testing  above   and   beyond standard quality testing
Approve  the  right  products  or  reject  defectives  and  provide corrective actions with support from the technical and production teams to resolve and prevent future re-occurrence
Dealing with day to day running  of quality and associated tasks to include,  complaint investigation,  both internally and externally   and communicating corrective actions
Keep accurate documentation and perform statistical analysis on all produced  batches                                                                                  
Monitor staff absences and conduct return to work interviews
Plan resources to meet internal KP l's and customer expectations
Complete   periodic    Quality   Control   checks   to   implement improvements
Maintain QC specifications for finished goods and incoming raw material
Measure  performance   and  identify  any  areas  of  weakness, recommend,  and implement improvements
Actively  participate  in  weekly  production  meetings to discuss solutions to quality issues
Technical & Personality Traits

Technical Background – The ability to learn and understand the chemistry of the adhesives being  manufactured  to find  root causes and to implement  corrective actions
Problem  Solving  –  Proposes   ways to  do  things  differently.
Provides  workable  solutions  to  solve immediate  work problems.  
Actively  supports new initiatives and tries different ways of doing things
Decision  making –  Gathers information from a  variety of sources to reach  a satisfactory conclusion.
Asks others for input and help.    
Understands when to pass unresolved queries and issues to others.
Teamwork and Leadership – Helps others with their daily tasks in a spontaneous manner. 
Challenges the norm and accepts all explanation with respect.
Influencing
Checks own understanding  by asking  questions for clarification.
Uses and builds on initiative to gain support for ideas.
Motivating and engaging
Proactively and reactively helps customers in a timely and  professional   manner.     Consistently  meets company standards  and  any service level agreement.
Developing  Self  and  others  –  Looks for  learning  opportunities  to  meet  the requirements of current role, in any format.  
Makes suggestions  and implements  improvements  to  personal work processes.
Communication  –  Communicates confidently  and checks for  understanding. Understands how differing teams work together
 
Qualifications

Chemistry background desired to understand process and product being manufactured
Management experience of a quality team/department
QC experience in ISO9001 certified laboratory
Strong communication and excellent IT skills.

Scantec Personnel Limited is acting as an employment business and an employment agency. For contract or interim roles (and unless otherwise stated), all pay rates stated are on a Limited Company basis (outside IR35 Determination). Agency PAYE and Umbrella engagement models are also available, which will result in a different pay rate than advertised above.

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