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Haltwhistle, England, United Kingdom

North Shields, England, United Kingdom

Washington, Tyne And Wear, United Kingdom

Leading a small team of QC analysts, providing day-to-day direction, and guidance with analytical techniques.Lean Implementation, coaching teams to use Lean Tools; workflow mapping, DMAIC, visual controls to eliminate waste within the operation and improve Quality and Efficiency. Implemented and supported Preventative Maintenance programme in Operations.Quality Assurance, Recertified site for ISO 9001:2015, managed and implemented Quality Management System to meet and exceed the requirements of ISO 9001:2015. Provided improved responsiveness to Non-conformances internally and externally and developed team to investigate to root cause. Supported use of Ishikawa diagrams, why/why analyses. Championed a global approach to issue elimination. Lead JDE E1 implementation locally. Global IT project roll-out required a fundamental understanding of Enterprise Resource Planning solutions.

Seaton Delaval

Resource Planning in SAP to process orders for customers globally; exclusively responsible for ensuring that Fashion Brand products are supplied as fully as possible from Distribution Centre in Cologne, by evaluating and working to eliminate constraints.Collaborated with colleagues from Upstream and Downstream Demand Resource planning organisation, based locally, and across European sites. Reducing missed items by 27% and maintaining a greater than 98% satisfaction level for more than 12 months. Maintained complete records, extracted and analysed data to produce reports detailing personal, team and department Key Performance Indicators.Developed tools in VBA/VB to interface SAP/R3 and Excel to reduce user complexity and to increase productivity, tested, and validated them in multiple environments and to create documentation to support deployment and user activity with these tools. Eliminating possibility of human error and saving 35 man minutes per working day.Completed ISO9001:2015 Quality Management Systems IRCA certified foundation course, gained knowledge and understanding of the requirements for an organisation to implement requirements of the standard.

Seaton Delaval

Overall Ownership for Multiple Quality Systems across production site.Developed electronic solutions to improve productivity and eliminate error in production.As a member of the Quality Lead Team, provided direction for a team of four positive release technicians as part of a 24-strong quality team. Performed Daily Direction Setting and acted as liaison between QA and operations and plant leadership.Maintenance and monitoring of process control software and results for twelve high-capacity production lines, producing premium and luxury product. Supported the Quality Incident system by classifying quality issues, driving investigations and providing technical support. Worked with stake-holders to establish and eliminate root causes via a standardised process. Reviewed Corrective and Preventative Actions generated from investigations, and monitored completion. Achieved and Maintained a zero rate of Repeat Quality Incidents for two consecutive yearsPerformed on-shelf quality audits, identifying and grading defects, reporting data and identifying areas that require improvement. Performed Customer defect investigation, lead work with key customers to visit their facilities and perform investigation of consumer returns to establish themes and common issues. Achieved Less than 1000 PPM plant defect rate.Produced reports for QI system, On Shelf Audits, Monthly PQM KPIs with reports targeted to end users, and leadership at the local site, and regional/ global QA to highlight areas and obtain buy-in from Production and Research and Development for improvement.Qualified as Site SAP QM Key user, attended monthly calls and lead changes to SAP QM end user experience with all stakeholders.

Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, United Kingdom

Developed methods for Autotitration, Gas Chromatography, and Liquid Chromatography, performed exceptional and routine analysis of starting materials, intermediates, and finished product.Provided support and troubleshooting for a wide range of techniques, including GC, GC-MS, HPLC, TLC, and autotitration. Regularly attended Lead Analyst regional meetings to present and review developments as part of global network of analysts.

Cramlington, Northumberland, United Kingdom

Cramlington, Northumberland, United Kingdom