Process Coordinator/lab Tech - Red Deer, Canada - Permolex Ltd
Description
The Process Coordinator is responsible for process monitoring and optimization initiatives, quality control and quality management, HACCP & ISO 9001 and support in a variety of projects.
This position is also responsible for the supervision and leadership of assigned areas of responsibility.Reporting Relationships:
Reports to:
President/VP/QA
Supervises:
QA Laboratory (back up)
Direction to:
QA Laboratory, Coordinators, operations staff
Internal Contacts:
All Staff
External Contacts:
Project/partner technical contact
Key Responsibility Areas:
Process Monitoring & Optimization including:
- Plans and monitors the performance of the processes of making ethanol, bread flour and gluten.
- Applies knowledge, skills, tools, techniques and systems to define, visualize, measure, control, report and improve processes with the goal to meet customer requirements and profitability.
- Focuses on the design, operation and maintenance of chemical and material manufacturing processes.
- Develops new processes, project engineering and troubleshooting.
- Develops systems to ensure products or services are designed and produced to meet or exceed customer requirements. These systems are often developed in conjunction with other business and engineering disciplines using a crossfunctional approach.
- Manages improvement of current product designs, product cost reduction efforts, operational efficiency improvements including design for assembly and manufacturing and new product development.
- Develops and implements new designs for current products to meet customer requirements.
- Assists in identifying the root causes of a problem and instituting corrective action such as changes to operation sheets, generation of Engineering Change Requests, changes to inspection analyses and changes to process procedures.
Quality Control & Quality Management including (back up):
- Develops processes needed for the quality management system to ensure they are established, implemented and maintained, and the authority to request corrective action from all employees interfacing with this system.
- Provides qualityassurance support to the assigned program and/or area to ensure that the product is built in accordance with customer and division quality requirements while maintaining production flow.
- Reviews all design drawings and changes, operation sheets, process procedures, test procedures, procurement documents, quality manuals, and inspection analyses to ensure that the division's and customers quality requirements are met on assigned products, programs, areas, and functions
- Provides support to assigned operation group including visual aids and inspection analyses and includes a key role serving as referee in making accept or reject decisions
- Reviews quality trends based on quality data system information and interaction with inspectors and production personnel, and participates in the generation and implementation of defectreduction programs for assigned product or program
- Oversees client Operations to ensure continuous quality improvement as seen through our customer's eyes, reduces internal quality costs and losses, improves the robustness of our processes, and is certified for proper market positioning.
- Performs quality improvement assessments and changes
- Performs internal and vendor audits
- Oversees organizational training as it relates to the Quality Management System and continual improvement.
Supervision & Leadership including:
- May plan human resource needs for the area by maintaining an optimum staff compliment and optimizing the costeffective utilization of staff during nonproduction periods.
- May lead and participate in the recruitment, selection, orientation, training & development of employees
- May develop performance plans, evaluate and assist employee in performance improvement including discipline
- Develops and builds effective teams, resolves conflict, mentors and coaches employees.
- Develops and maintains a highly motivated team ensuring each member of the team has adequate knowledge and skill to fulfill their jobs in a professional manner.
- Directs, sets priorities and delegates work assignments for employees
- Manages staff scheduling, time off requests, overtime and the direction of work
- Provides direction to engineers, designers, and service technicians as required regarding project management, conflict resolution, and professional development.
Food Safety (back up)
- Acts as lead in the development, implementation and maintenance of the Food Safety programs.
- Provides training and support to ensure the programs are in compliance with all the program requirements
- Manages Standard Operating Procedure and Data Collection Form processes
- Assures GMP training of employees
- Assures facility compliance and maintenance
Project Support including:
- Provides leadership and management of assigned projects
- Assists in improving technological and competitive
