Quality & Production ||Pershore WR10 2JJ

Role:Quality & Production
Pay: 13.25p/h - 14.50p/h
Hours: 6am-6pm / 6pm-6am || 4 on & 4 off
Location: Pershore, WR10 2JJA Flexographic Quality Control Inspector/Technician is responsible for monitoring and inspecting the quality of printed and converted products throughout the flexographic production process. The role ensures that products meet customer specifications, company quality standards, and relevant regulatory or packaging requirements.
Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Inspect raw materials, printed materials, and finished products to ensure they meet required specifications.
• Review job tickets, customer specifications, approved samples, and quality standards before and during production.
• Monitor print quality, including colour consistency, registration, clarity, density, and overall appearance.
• Inspect laminated, slit, and rewound materials for defects such as wrinkles, bubbles, poor adhesion, uneven edges, contamination, and damaged rolls.
• Carry out regular in-process quality checks during printing, laminating, and slitting operations.
• Use measuring and testing equipment to check product specifications, including width, length, thickness, colour, adhesion, and other required properties.
• Identify, record, and report quality defects or non-conforming products.
• Work with machine operators and supervisors to investigate and correct quality issues.
• Quarantine or segregate defective materials in accordance with company procedures.
• Verify that corrective actions have been completed and that production quality has returned to the required standard.
• Complete quality-control records, inspection reports, test results, and non-conformance documentation accurately.
• Maintain samples and retain records where required for traceability.
• Monitor compliance with company quality procedures, customer requirements, and relevant industry standards.
• Support internal and external quality audits.
• Assist with root-cause analysis and continuous improvement activities to reduce defects, waste, and customer complaints.
• Ensure measuring and testing equipment is properly maintained and calibrated.
• Communicate quality concerns clearly to production, maintenance, and management teams.
• Follow all health, safety, environmental, hygiene, and housekeeping procedures.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and organised quality-control work area.

Key Skills and Requirements

• Experience in quality control, preferably within flexographic printing, flexible packaging, or a manufacturing environment.
• Good knowledge of flexographic printing and converting processes.
• Understanding of print defects, colour matching, registration, and product specifications.
• Experience using quality inspection and measuring equipment.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to read and interpret job specifications, technical documents, and quality procedures.
• Good record-keeping and documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with production and management teams.
• Understanding of quality-management systems and continuous improvement practices.
• Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental requirements.

Overall, the Flexographic Quality Control Inspector/Technician is responsible for ensuring that all products are consistently produced to the required quality standards, customer specifications, and safety requirements while helping to reduce defects, waste, and production errors.
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