Senior Quality Control Officer

Amcor is the global leader in developing and producing responsible consumer packaging and dispensing solutions across a variety of materials for nutrition, health, beauty and wellness categories. Our global product innovation and sustainability expertise enables us to solve packaging challenges around the world every day, producing a range of flexible packaging, rigid packaging, cartons and closures that are more sustainable, functional and appealing for our customers and their consumers. We are guided by our purpose of elevating customers, shaping lives and protecting the future. Supported by a commitment to safety, over 75,000 people generate $23 billion in annualized sales from operations that span over 400 locations in more than 40 countries.

Overview of Role 

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Senior Quality Control Officer (SQCO) to join the operations team at our Acacia Ridge site, reporting to the Quality Manager. The objective of the SQCO is the provision of quality control at a site level, ensuring the highest service levels for our customers.

This is a very hands-on role that requires close links with operations, R&D, sales, supply chain and customer service to ensure that quality control is systematic, controlled and managed.

The key areas of focus are:

• Provide effective quality control across the site

• Maintain and improve effective quality systems, including product safety

• Maintain and improve systems for process control and product compliance to specification

• Manage and maintain an effective non-conformance and corrective action system

• Process non-conformance, root cause and corrective action where required

• Ensure cost of quality is actively measured and reduced over time 

• Ensure successful completion of all internal and external quality audits.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience in quality control in manufacturing with a background in flexible packaging highly desirable

• Ideally an understanding and experience in quality management systems and auditing

• Ideally experience in statistical techniques and statistical process control

• Experience in the use of laboratory and scientific measurement equipment

• Experience in the use of computers and computer-based programs such as Word, Excel etc

Education and Certifications

• You may have further education and training in quality management

• You may have a bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering, Polymer Science, Chemistry or Material Science

Job Specific skills and abilities 

• Demonstrated ability to analytically review system or product issues. 

• Strong communication skills both verbal and written 

• Ability to collaborate and influence outcomes and change

• Results oriented, tenacity and perseverance

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to join a world leading organisation. This role is a full-time, permanent position based in our Acacia Ridge Site. Salary package on offer is dependent on skills and experience of the right individual. 

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