Quality Assurance Technician

The Rewards and Benefits on offer:

• A full time and permanent role from day one!
• A competitive basic salary!
• Excellent company culture
• Generous holiday allowance
• An opportunity within a growing and successful business
• Immediate starts available
• Fantastic work culture

MTrec’s new client opportunities:

MTrec recruitment are representing our industry leading manufacturing client based in the heart of South Tyneside. The business is a well-established company and are looking to expand their talented quality team by recruiting a full time and permanent QA Technologist.

If you meet the person specification below, apply now for an immediate response!

The Job you will do:

• Drive continuous improvement across quality, cost control, waste reduction, and efficiency
• Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and safe working practices
• Complete customer questionnaires and prepare product specifications
• Support communication with suppliers, customers, and certification bodies on quality matters
• Coordinate audits and maintain accreditation standards
• Perform stock checks on quarantined materials
• Inspect retained samples and approve product release where required
• Conduct in-process quality checks across production
• Prepare compliance and analysis certificates
• Carry out laboratory testing (e.g., yield, seal strength, friction, solvent levels)
• Prepare and dispatch customer samples
• Produce internal and customer reports
• Lead root cause investigations and implement corrective actions
• Manage customer complaints and response processes
• Hold quality review meetings and analyse trends in issues
• Conduct hygiene inspections and glass audits
• Maintain housekeeping and hygiene standards
• Deliver training on quality and hygiene procedures and keep records
• Support quality management systems, including traceability, recalls, supplier issues, and internal audits

About you:

• Good organisational and time management skills
• High standards of personal conduct and professional performance
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Good team player; ability to work as part of a team and alone on own initiative
• Ability to think and plan ahead
• Reliable and flexible to manage changing priorities
• Accurate with good attention to detail
• A positive, proactive and constructive approach to problem solving