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Quality Manager | Consumer Goods Manufacturer | Uxbridge
Our client is a leading UK company supplying fun, licensed children's products to the UK and EU Markets.
Due to continued growth we are supporting them in the appointment of a Quality Manager to help maintain their commitment to safety and continuous market share.
Role:
The Quality Manager will be an experienced, skilled Manager of Quality assurance and Quality control in manufacturing and distribution environments ideally within Far East locations.
Responsible for safety, quality, compliance and ethical issues for all items distributed.
A practical 'hands on' manager able to handle many licensed projects simultaneously, work calmly under pressure whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail and customer attention.
Experienced problem solver, able to work effectively to implement practical, effective corrective actions (system and product) improving product and processes.
About you:
To be considered for this role you will have a broad business experience including quality, product safety, quality, systems & processes, and operational areas in food contact plastics, printing and some textile. An engineering discipline would be advantageous in order to understand the product manufacturing and the risks associated with product design execution..
Essential Key elements:
- Minimum 5 years experience in Consumer Goods or similar environment is essential
- Ability to determine product and component specific test requirements, generating product qualification/Test Plan documents, conduct risk assessments and all documentation to maintain required technical files
- Able to provide compliance packaging copy to our clients design department in a timely manner.
- Work to continually monitor product integrity performance in market and ensure effective & timely actions of unacceptable safety/quality issues.
- Ability to oversee and achieve factory auditing. Understanding of Technical and Ethical Auditing, to meet customer needs and maintain HOX Global standards - FCA, SMETA, BSCI are good examples.
- Develop, implement and monitor QA policies and procedures
- Develop / introduce and maintain global product safety design requirements and guidelines.
- Manage product safety reporting and analysis
- Working knowledge of safety regulations and directives - UK and EU essential including Food contact and new General Product Safety Regulations and some Global preferred.
- Maintain and continued development of consumer complaint and returns analysis system to be used in Quality Improvement.
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