At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure top-notch quality standards and support our Quality Management System.
- Company: Join ALPLA, a global leader in high-quality plastic packaging.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Collaborative team atmosphere with opportunities for personal growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on product quality and drive continuous improvement.
- Qualifications: Experience in quality assurance and strong organisational skills required.
The predicted salary is between 31200 - 31200 £ per year.
Location: Golborne (WA3)
Monday-Friday (7am-4pm)
£31,200 per annum + Benefits
At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world. Around 25,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue chip clients across 206 ALPLA sites in 45 countries.
About the Role
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Quality Assurance Officer to join our Quality team at our Golborne manufacturing site. This is an excellent opportunity for an organised individual with manufacturing quality experience to play a key role in supporting and maintaining our Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with customer, legislative and accreditation requirements. Working closely with teams across the business, you will help drive quality standards, support audits, manage documentation, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that ensure our products and processes consistently meet the highest standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain and support the site's Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring documentation, communications and quality processes are effectively controlled and compliant.
- Manage quality documentation, specifications, records and databases, including document control, calibration schedules and certification records.
- Respond to customer requests for specifications, drawings, Declarations of Compliance (DoC) and technical questionnaires in a timely manner.
- Support customer, corporate, legislative and accreditation audits, while conducting internal audits, hygiene audits and environmental monitoring activities.
- Deliver quality inductions and training for new starters and temporary employees, promoting quality standards across the site.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, supporting corrective actions, data management system enhancements and compliance projects.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, supporting purchasing activities, supplier documentation reviews and migration testing programmes.
About You:
- Experience working within a quality function operating to ISO standards or equivalent quality systems.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to documentation and compliance.
- Confidence when working with internal teams, customers, auditors and suppliers.
- Experience within manufacturing, FMCG, packaging or a regulated production environment would be advantageous.
Contact Kerry McCormick to discuss this opportunity with ALPLA UK.
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