ALPLA Group
Quality Assurance Officer
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What You Will Enjoy Doing
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Quality Assurance Officer to join our Quality team at our Golborne manufacturing site. This is an excellent opportunity for an organised individual with quality experience to play a key role in supporting and maintaining our Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with customer, legislative, and accreditation requirements.
Working closely with teams across the business, you will help drive quality standards, support audits, manage documentation, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that ensure our products and processes consistently meet the highest standards.
Key Responsibilities: Quality Assurance Officer
- Maintain and support the site’s Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring documentation, communications, and quality processes are effectively controlled and compliant.
- Manage quality documentation, specifications, records, and databases, including:
- Document control
- Calibration schedules
- Certification records
- Respond to customer requests for:
- Specifications
- Drawings
- Declarations of Compliance (DoC)
- Technical questionnaires
- in a timely manner
- Support customer, corporate, legislative, and accreditation audits, while conducting:
- Internal audits
- Hygiene audits
- Environmental monitoring activities
- Deliver quality inductions and training for:
- New starters
- Temporary employees
- Promoting quality standards across the site
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, supporting:
- Corrective actions
- Data management system enhancements
- Compliance projects
- Build strong relationships with:
- Internal stakeholders
- External suppliers
- Support:
- Purchasing activities
- Supplier documentation reviews
- Migration testing programmes
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What Makes You Great
- Experience working within:
- A quality function
- Operating to ISO standards
- Or equivalent quality systems
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly:
- Excel
- Word
- Outlook
- Excellent organisational skills:
- Ability to prioritise multiple tasks
- Meet deadlines
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to:
- Documentation
- Compliance
- Confidence when working with:
- Internal teams
- Customers
- Auditors
- Suppliers
- Experience within:
- Manufacturing
- FMCG (Fast-Moving Consumer Goods)
- Packaging
- Regulated production environment (Advantageous)
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What You Can Expect Working With Us
- Working Hours: Monday–Friday (7 AM–4 PM)
- Starting Salary: £31,200
About ALPLA
At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging worldwide. Roughly 22,000 colleagues produce packaging for:
- Foodstuffs
- Cosmetics
- Industrial cleaning brands
For many blue-chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 46 countries.
Benefits
- Free on-site parking
- Annual Bonus Scheme
- Life assurance from day one
- Company Pension Scheme
- Subsidised canteen
- Maternity and paternity pay scheme
- Christmas vouchers (for you and your children)
- Long service awards
- Christmas and Easter shutdown
New Perk Box (Additional Benefits)
- Discounts on purchases such as:
- Food and drink
- Cinema tickets
- Clothing
- Homeware
- Freebies across the perk box site (e.g., free coffees)
- Online access to:
- Free exercise classes
- Yoga classes
- 24/7 access to qualified therapists
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