Main purpose of the role:
Ensuring that Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality procedures and supporting technical documents comply with recognised industry standards and all relevant legislation.
Main tasks:
- Maintaining operating procedures with the appropriate levels of control and hygiene required by our customers in the health & beauty sector and ISO22716 (Cosmetic GMP).
- Authorisation of Product Specifications for finished products.
- Review of Batch Manufacturing Records to ensure compliance with agreed specifications.
- Management and training of staff responsible for in-process QC testing of finished products.
- Management of the Internal Audit programme.
- Responsible for maintaining SHEQ Policies & Procedures and ensuring compliance with current legislation and relevant standards.
- Completing risk assessments for equipment, manufacturing procedures and the working environment to ensure staff safety.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with SMETA standards for ethical trading.
- Being the primary point of contact with external auditors (Quality, Health & Safety, Ethical, Chain of Custody).
- Maintaining the technical details (raw materials and finished products) as required to demonstrate product safety and substantiate environmental claims.
- Liaising with third party testing companies to ensure compliance with purchasing specifications and current regulations.
- Approval of suppliers and review of supplier performance.
- Management of the Customer Complaints Procedures and identifying root causes for compliance failures and updating SOPs to drive better performance.
- Key part of management team responsible for Operational Excellence and reporting results of KPIs for SHEQ.
Key skills and characteristics:
- Broad technical and operational experience gained in a regulated/hygienic manufacturing environment (pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food or similar manufacturing environment).
- A trained auditor in a relevant field of SHEQ.
- A proven ability to drive continual improvement/ excellence in a manufacturing environment.
- A knowledge of nonwoven textiles and their technical specifications would be a great advantage in this role but is not essential.
- Ability to generate clear & concise operating procedures and communicate details of these procedures to members of the production team.
- Organised & disciplined individual who demonstrates the necessary attention to detail and accuracy in preparing technical documents
