QA Workflow Lead: Planning & Quality Coordination

IMI Process Automation; Poole; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

IMI plc in Poole is seeking a QA Workflow Supervisor to coordinate the QA and QC teams’ daily work priorities and planning activities. This role ensures QA and QC activities align with BPM information and project requests, enabling QC inspectors and QA administrators to focus on quality tasks without production pressure.

The successful candidate will be highly organised with strong communication skills and a proven planning background in manufacturing, supporting continuous improvement and

Qualifications

• Highly organised with proven experience in a planning related function within a manufacturing organisation.
• Ability to communicate effectively across different areas of the business.
• Ability to negotiate and discuss conflicting demands in a calm and professional manner.
• Ability to manage own time and deliverables effectively.
• Comfortable working alone and as an effective member of a multifunctional team.
• Demonstrates a consistent, assertive and dependable approach, with the ability to effectively ensure customer requirements are prioritised while managing production schedule expectations.

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

Planning

Communication

Time management

Stakeholder management

Job description

IMI plc in Poole is seeking a QA Workflow Supervisor to coordinate the QA and QC teams’ daily work priorities and planning activities. This role ensures QA and QC activities align with BPM information and project requests, enabling QC inspectors and QA administrators to focus on quality tasks without production pressure.

The successful candidate will be highly organised with strong communication skills and a proven planning background in manufacturing, supporting continuous improvement and