Senior Quality & Compliance Officer

NEW VACANCY! (PK8617)

SENIOR QUALITY & COMPLIANCE OFFICER WEST YORKSHIRE

£Contact me for salary details + 23 Days Holiday + Bank Holiday + Bonus Scheme Cycle To Work Scheme

Monday - Thursday: 8:45am - 5pm / Friday 8:45am- 4:30pm (1hour lunch)

My client is a leading manufacturer of flexible packaging providing an award winning service to their clients in the food & beverage, retail, commercial, homecare & personal care sectors

They are now looking to recruit a Senior Quality and Compliance Officer to join their team. The Chosen candidate will play an important role in supporting the technical team in the day to day running of the department. My client is open to candidates in other areas of packaging / manufacturing providing they have BRC / ISO experience

Role / Responsibilities:

Ensure compliance to BRC and ISO accreditation requirements - a sound knowledge of BRC standards and conducting internal audits is essential in this role to maintain and monitor where appropriate quality and compliance systems.
You will have an impact on plant performance, improving print, manufacturing and quality metrics and ensuring the company always remain compliant.
Ensuring nonconformances raised during internal and external audits are logged, managed, actioned, closed and action effectiveness is monitored
Record keeping and maintenance of supplier standards.
Get first hand customer information and use it for improvements in products and services; establish and maintain effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Constantly and consistently reducing quality complaints and time to respond; push yourself and others for best results.
Use rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, probes all fruitful sources for answers, can see hidden problems, is excellent at honest analysis, looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answer.
Provides system expertise to plant management and personnel
Drives improvement that helps support and deliver the plants planned results
Prepare information for quality meetings & host the meeting
Completion of monthly quality/complaints analytic reports for senior meetings
Be the HARA team leader
Be the contact for the pest control contractor, manage visits and issues arising
Understand your responsibilities to maintain a safe working environment.Qualifications / Experience:

Minimum HACCP Level 3. Level 4 preferred
Strong knowledge and experience of BRC standards and implementation
Lean continuous improvement
Clear understanding of manufacturing processes
High degree of accuracy and attention to detail, with ability to check own work
Have experience building relationships and liaising with stakeholders.
Builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact
Excellent Communication skills - both written and verbal with a strong influence
Ability to work both efficiently and effectively alone, as well as part of a large and varied team.
Enthusiastic, strong organisational skills, committed, and flexible to the demands of a fast-paced business with a significant amount of change and the ability to manage and prioritise a busy and varied workload.
Problem solver and analytical proactive thinker.
Enjoy working to deadlines and targets in a fast-paced environment.
Flexibility and excellent attention to detail is essential.
Knowledge of all MS Packages including Excel and Word.
Willingness to learn and a strong desire to develop and grow within the organisation