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*** PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT LEAD - FMCG/CHEMISTRY - to £30,000 - BARROW IN FURNESS ***

 

THE COMPANY

Our client is a renowned manufacturer or candles, accessories and home accents based in Barrow-In-Furness.

 

THE ROLE - Product Development Lead

• To manage a team of New Products, Quality Assurance and Lab Technicians, along with Quality Inspectors.
• To lead the integration of Quality Control & Assurance into the value streams whilst meeting the customer's needs, maintaining internal quality expectations within the production environment whilst increasing effectiveness and minimising lead time to market.
• To support the value streams in identifying quality defects and working pro-actively to make improvements to existing products and processes that enhance product performance, efficiency, cost and value to the customer
• To lead and manage Product Development of all New and Existing products
• To ensure products and raw materials meet specifications, processes conform to pre defined settings and quality standard operating procedures are followed
• Key interactions: QA & TD Manager. All members of the Value Stream, Materials Sourcing, Purchasing and Supply.

 

KEY DUTIES - Product Development Lead

• New Product Development and Introduction Process
• Process Audits
• Product Costing
• Staff Training
• Evaluate existing processes to identify areas for improvement, ensuring full communication of findings.
• Refine existing manufacturing processes and parameters, to optimise the manufacturing process
• Advise on equipment modification to enable process changes for existing product development.
• Ensure that robust, controlled laboratory testing is undertaken
• Validate changes to existing processes and show that they are an improvement
• Read and write technical reports, specifications, procedures and maintain appropriate records
• Generate data to substantiate claims regarding the safety and quality of existing products
• Benchmarking against Internal and External Facilities

 

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE - Product Development Lead

• Chemistry knowledge is a MUST for this position, with a minimum A level qualification requried. Preference will be given to those with a degree in Chemistry.
• Experience of improving existing product and processes in a FMCG Manufacturing business
• Strong People Management skills
• Dynamic and capable of developing people
• Hands on, get it done demeanour
• High attention to detail