Job Introduction
To monitor incoming material quality and product quality within manufacturing operations at Arete and other locations, carrying out analysis, and reporting and communicating issues as necessary to relevant stakeholders to enable the business to meet and exceed customer and consumer quality expectations.
Main Responsibility
- Ensure that safe working practices and quality procedures are strictly followed in line with compliance to HMRC, environmental legislation & Food Safety requirements.
- To perform inspections and audits of packaging materials and finished products, record findings & quality issues via relevant systems and databases and actions as appropriate.
- Carry out trending & analysis and report into the Packaging Quality improvement process KPI’s
- Support operational activity and promote Quality standards, completing appropriate quality checks, provide guidance to ensure materials and finished product meets the required specification and customer expectations.
- To control, via IFS and other internal systems, product which fails to meet the required quality standards, reporting held stock levels and managing this stock through to rework, decant or destruction through to release on these systems.
- To control, via IFS and other internal systems, packaging material which fails to meet the required quality standards, reporting internally and externally to suppliers and liaising with them to reach effective solutions.
- Develop, implement and support across Arete site inspection quality criteria, standards & procedures for material, product and engineering trials.
- Working within a high performing team culture, contribute appropriately to team meetings, work collaboratively and cross functionally to support the Arete Strategy, production plans and continuous improvement projects.
Our Ideal Candidate
Essential:
- Previous experience of working in a Quality / Technical role.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build effective working relationships
- Able to work on own initiative, confident, self-starter.
- Attention to detail and highly organised.
- Good Influencing skills to overcome barriers without excessive guidance.
- Computer literate and working knowledge of IFS, Word, Excel.
- An understanding and working knowledge of Luxury bottling standards
Desirable:
- Working knowledge of production and packaging processes in an FMCG environment
- Knowledge of problem solving techniques and ability to put into practice.
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.
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