Quality Inspector

Huhtamaki; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sustainable packaging company in Portsmouth seeks a Quality Control Specialist to manage raw material sampling and ensure compliance with quality standards. You will perform checks on materials, report non-conformities, and assist with supplier quality improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate possesses strong quality control management skills and data analysis capabilities. Join us to help protect food, people, and the planet!

Qualifications

• Experience in quality control processes and standards.
• Ability to analyze data and provide feedback.
• Strong communication skills for supplier interactions.

Responsibilities

• Manage the raw material sampling schedule to ensure compliance.
• Perform checks on incoming raw materials and log results.
• Identify and report non-conforming goods.
• Participate in supplier quality improvement initiatives.
• Gather data during production for supplier feedback.

Skills

Quality control management

Data analysis

Supplier relationship management

Job description

Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We're on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki. You could be part of our vision. Because it's our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It's every one of us working together. We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.

• Management of the raw material sampling schedule to ensure incoming raw materials are sampled at a frequency based on risk assessment.
• Sampling incoming raw materials, and perform visual, dimensional and functional checks, logging of results, trending, and feedback to suppliers on their performance
• Identify, segregate, and report non-conforming goods, raising NCs where necessary.
• Participate in supplier quality improvement initiatives by providing inspection feedback
• Gathering data during on site production to raise complaints and feedback to suppliers where necessary
• Tracking complaints and claims to ensure all costs are recovered and escape if necessary
• Contribute to the supplier approval process.
• Assist with routine and non-routine testing of raw material, semifinished goods and finished products.