Quality & Product Safety Coordinator

Quality & Product Safety Coordinator

Salary Between 25K - 27K DOE

Based in Sunderland

Role Summary

The primary role of the Quality & Product Safety Coordinator is to support the QHSE Manager in maintaining the company's Quality and Hygiene Management System. The position involves working closely with the site management team on a daily basis. Focus is aimed at compliance with related policies and procedures and ensuring products supplied to customers are of a consistently safe and high standard of quality.

Key Activities and Responsibilities

• Liaising with certification bodies; organizing site audits; responding to non-conformances and ensuring full compliance certification standards and accreditation systems
• Working with the QHSE Manager to review and update policies & procedures to continually strengthen & improve quality management systems
• Completion of customer questionnaires and preparation of technical specifications
• Manage the company's internal audit and self-inspection programs
• Help develop and implement a robust and efficient CAPA Program
• Maintain up-to-date calibration records & arrange service and repair of laboratory equipment
• Conduct and document forward and reverse traceability exercises and a product withdrawal
• Assist in maintaining the company's HACCP's plan
• Deliver short training programs and conduct information and awareness briefings
• General quality assurance duties; process quality checks, compiling certificates of analysis, archiving samples, conducting laboratory tests including oxygen transmission rate, heat-seal / lamination bond strengths, coefficient of friction, solvent retention and primary aromatic amines

Health, Safety, Hygiene, Environment and Accreditations

• Ensure department activities are carried out in accordance with :
• The company's health and safety management system and statutory legislation
• ISO 14001 certification and statutory environmental legislation
• SMETA Best Practice Guidance

Key Results Areas/Outputs

• Maintain systems and documentation to ensure full compliance with the BRC Global Standard for Packaging and the American Institute of Bakers Standard

Key Internal Relationships

• Production Management Team (Print Manager, Conversion Manager, UK Engineering Manager & Warehouse & Logistics Manager)
• UK Procurement Team
• Sales Managers
• Technical Department
• Shift Supervisors
• Production Personnel

Key External Relationships

• Customers
• Auditors
• Service providers (pest management, external calibration services, work clothing provider etc)

Other Requirements

Qualifications

• GCSE grades 3/C or above in Math's and English essential

Skills

• Good organisational and time management skills
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills
• High standards of personal conduct and professional performance
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Good team player; ability to work as part of a team and alone on own initiative
• Ability to think and plan ahead
• Reliable and flexible to manage changing priorities
• Accurate with good attention to detail
• A positive, proactive and constructive approach to problem-solving