QA Workflow Lead – Planning & Quality Coordination

IMI Process Automation; England; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

IMI plc in the UK seeks a QA Workflow Supervisor to coordinate QA and QC workstreams, aligning planning with production schedules. You will be the single point of contact for daily QA/QC planning, enabling Inspectors and Administrators to focus on quality activities without undue production pressure.

Key duties include representing QA at planning meetings, arranging inspections (external and internal), tracking NCRs, and ensuring smooth collaboration with planning, projects and QC teams to meet

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating QA and QC planning within a manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to align planning with production schedules and customer requirements.
• Strong communication and collaborative skills across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• QA and QC Team representative at Business Planning Meetings (BPM).
• Single point of contact for all QA & QC planning and capacity requirements.
• Organising and planning jobs for QC lab and dye-pen based on BPM information, project managers & team leaders requests or by using available data.
• Daily monitoring and moving of QC related NCRs, ensuring updates are fed back to the planning and projects teams.
• Organising ad hoc inspection to support investigations; typical requirements arise from process capability studies, customer returns, NCR containment activities, supplier issues and new product introductions.
• Arrangement of external inspection resources such as ultrasonic inspection, dye pen and visual inspection as required to meet business needs.
• Arrangement of internal PMI testing by QC Inspectors as required to meet business needs.
• Close liaison between planning, projects and QC Inspectors to ensure pre-planned external witness inspections on behalf of customers are conducted in a smooth and controlled manner.
• Liaison with QA & QC Teams regarding overtime to support business requirements.
• Support departmental improvement projects from a planning and capacity perspective.
• Perform other such duties commensurate with the nature and level of the post as may be reasonably required.

Skills

Highly organized

Effective communicator

Negotiation skills

Time management

Job description

IMI plc in the UK seeks a QA Workflow Supervisor to coordinate QA and QC workstreams, aligning planning with production schedules. You will be the single point of contact for daily QA/QC planning, enabling Inspectors and Administrators to focus on quality activities without undue production pressure.

Key duties include representing QA at planning meetings, arranging inspections (external and internal), tracking NCRs, and ensuring smooth collaboration with planning, projects and QC teams to meet