Quality Improvement Graduate

**The Role**: Quality Improvement Engineer Graduate

**Location**: Hemswell, DN21 5TU

**Shift Pattern/Working Hours**: Monday - Friday 8.30am - 5pm

**Salary**: Up to £33,500

We are the UK's largest and most technically advanced PET bottle recycling plant, we play a critical role in ensuring we continue provide environmental friendly packaging solutions to our customers. We are actively seeking for motivated people to join our team as an operative at our large dynamic site in Hemswell.

With ambitious growth plans, we are continually investing in our facilities and our people, with opportunities to develop and build your career with us.

As a Quality Improvement Engineer Graduate, you will embark on a development journey with CTUK to enhance your skills and build your experience. CTUK will commit to providing you with an in-depth understanding of the Quality Department.

This is an exciting opportunity and is ideally suited for a new Graduate looking to start their career, full training will be provided.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- £500 incentive payment paid at 12 weeks of employment
- £25 a week attendance bonus - on top of salary (T&Cs apply)
- Opportunities for overtime paid at double time
- Yearly bonus
- A safe dynamic working environment
- Onsite free refreshments
- Training and development opportunities from day one
- Opportunity to earn an additional £500 through referring friends and family (T&Cs apply)

**Purpose of the role**:
To ensure compliance of inbound and outbound materials, whilst reviewing production to ensure performance is optimum.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- To ensure that the process is working optimally:

- Inspection, sampling and testing of raw materials
- Use of test results to monitor performance of all assets, identify trends and produce action plans to resolve
- Monitor by-products to ensure compliance and identify variability in raw materials and/or the process
- Review the process, recommend and implement areas of improvement o Fulfil the internal auditors schedule and audit the process against standard operating procedures
- Ensuring that outgoing material is correctly dispatched and within compliance
- Working alongside customers to build relationships and ensure that their needs are understood and satisfied
- Provide reports on performance, including right first time

Other duties include:

- Leading investigations into Observations and Complaints to ensure that the root cause is identified and preventative actions are implemented
- Leading trials and process improvements
- Own the Suppliers Complaint Process
- Develop new test methods when required
- Fulfilling customer and quality requirements, for example bag inspections, material transfers and sampling
- Provide cover for the Quality Manager, Quality Control Lab Technicians and Laboratory & Compliance Team Leader.

**To be successful in the role, you will require**:

- Quality Engineer qualification or experience working in a similar role
- A manufacturing background or sector experience would be advantageous
- Familiarisation of ISO 9001 and internal auditing.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Experience of quality testing and using problem solving techniques to determine root cause.
- IT literate - fully versed in MS Office and ideally SAP. Comfortable with analysing numbers.
- Excellent communication skills. Ability to engage effectively with different departments, suppliers and customer.
- Proactive, can deliver actions to drive improvement
- Ability to multitask, prioritise and deliver results to a deadline

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £33,500.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Signing bonus
- Yearly bonus

Reference ID: CTUK26