Details:
- Salary: £30,000 - 35,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Sunderland
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Job Title: Quality & Product Safety Coordinator
Location: Sunderland
Salary: £30,000 per annum approx
About Us: STEM Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency specialising in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. We are currently seeking a diligent and detail-oriented Quality & Product Safety Coordinator for our esteemed client.
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. This position involves daily collaboration with the site management team, ensuring compliance with policies and procedures, and maintaining the consistent safety and quality of products supplied to customers.
Key Activities and Responsibilities:
Certification and Compliance:
Liaising with certification bodies, organizing site audits, responding to non-conformances, and ensuring full compliance with certification standards and accreditation systems.
Working with the QHSE Manager to review and update policies and procedures to continually strengthen and improve quality management systems.
Documentation and Technical Support:
Completing customer questionnaires and preparing technical specifications.
Managing the company’s internal audit and self-inspection programs.
Helping develop and implement a robust and efficient CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) Program.
Maintaining up-to-date calibration records and arranging service and repair of laboratory equipment.
Quality Assurance:
Conducting and documenting forward and reverse traceability exercises and product withdrawals.
Assisting in maintaining the company’s HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) plan.
Delivering short training programs and conducting information and awareness briefings.
Performing general quality assurance duties such as process quality checks, compiling certificates of analysis, archiving samples, and conducting laboratory tests (e.g., oxygen transmission rate, heat-seal/lamination bond strengths, coefficient of friction, solvent retention, primary aromatic amines).
Health, Safety, Hygiene, Environment, and Accreditations:
Ensuring department activities comply with the company’s health and safety management system, statutory legislation, ISO 14001 certification, statutory environmental legislation, and SMETA Best Practice Guidance.
Key Results Areas/Outputs:
Maintaining 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 (e.g., pest management, external calibration services, work clothing provider)
Other Requirements:
Qualifications:
GCSE grades 3/C or above in Math and English essential
Skills:
Good organizational 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
STEM Recruitment Solutions Ltd operates as both a Recruitment Agency and a Recruitment Business. We endeavour to reply to all applications when possible however on occasions this may not be possible due to volumes of responses. STEM Recruitment is a Scientific, Engineering and Manufacturing Recruitment business supplying talented staff to permanent and temporary opportunities