Quality assurance engineer, my main roles and responsibilities are to ensure compliance with ISO9001, BRC/IoP standards across all aspects of the business. This includes key areas such as design, manufacturing, sales, customer support, transportation of goods.

Industrial Placement StudentA fixed term placement with the Clydesdale bank working within operations and IT splitting my time between the Management Assurance and Information Security Access Control teams.Responsibilities (Management Assurance):Weekly global industry reviews - monitoring trends and industry intelligence Data extraction and formatting from a number of source systems Data analysis Collating and producing Management Assurance Committee reports using Word, Excel and PowerPoint Monitoring the business environment - action plans & audit items (ORECS) Ensuring compliance with learning campus across Ops & IT business unitsResponsibilities (InfoSec Access Control):Oracle database user provisioning, adhering to company procedures Reporting user breaches and the subsequent management of revoking access when appropriateQuarterly User Verification Execute gap analysis on procedure documentation - resulting in me creating an enhanced Oracle provisioning process for team trainingInformation Technology General Controls (ITGC) - testing of new user & leavers process across multiples systems to ensure compliance with audit requirements

This position was situated in the busy design department for Cullen packaging based in Glasgow; my role was to manage and design packaging solutions for our extensive customer base (FMCG) on a varied product line such as electronics products and the foods industry.Responsibilities:Negotiation of design briefs with production and sales teams on suitable solutionsDetailed design of packaging using CAD software (AGcad) Production of initial design concepts (proto types) using digital cutting systems (Kasemake)Project planning and co-ordination of design activities to deliver the brief Ensuring quality of the end product within budget and timeframeMaintaining database of design conceptsEnsuring compliance with audit requirements ( ISO9001 / documentation / file archiving )Training junior team members