Location: Cowie
Job Type: Permanent
West Fraser is a diversified wood products company with more than 60 facilities in Canada, the United States and Europe. From responsibly sourced and sustainably managed forest resources, the company produces lumber, engineered wood (OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, particleboard), and other products including pulp, newsprint, wood chips and renewable energy.
Our UK-manufactured products are used extensively in the construction, DIY and furniture sectors. Our brands, SterlingOSB Zero, CaberFloor and CaberWood MDF, are well known in the construction industry and are commonly specified by architects, national housebuilders and specifiers.
We are proud that as a certified net carbon negative company we lock up more carbon in our products than we emit making them, helping the UK construction sector comply with net zero targets and beyond.
The successful applicant will:
- Engage with and be an effective proactive member of West Fraser`s safety programmes, including taking part in system development and safety programme committees.
- Ensure optimisation of the full manufacturing processes, with a focus on manufacturing cost data.
- Develop strong understanding of site metrics and KPI`s to enable a focus on the business requirements.
- Manage and develop the existing West Fraser QMS for both business units, including the laboratory functions and online QA measuring systems.
- Effectively integrate the QMS, PMS [Production Management System] with West Fraser’s ERP System.
- Maintain control of SKU recipes within BoMs and the ERP system.
- Prepare, plan and implement trials for continual process improvement.
- Develop systems and tools to better visualise and raise understanding of the processes.
- Have deep knowledge of the processes and products; utilise this to train and upskill operators across the business units.
- Ensure critical root cause analysis is performed when addressing process and quality issues.
- Ensure compliance to relevant EN standards.
- Ensure compliance to the Construction Products Regulations [CPR] and West Fraser product Declarations of Performance [DoP].
- Maintain accreditation to ISO 9001 and CE Mark.
- Have direct and progressive relationships with technical suppliers of process equipment and raw materials, to allow control of costs and quality and to ensure latest industry standards are adopted.
- Utilise CI tools and systems for process analytics, utilising aspects of SPC, Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
- Link with customers to understand their needs and ensure a good fit for our products within their processes.
- Investigate customer complaints and ensure systems are in place to avoid recurrence.
- Control and report on process critical areas, such as raw material usages, waste and product throughputs.
- Form strong relationships with all departments within West Fraser Europe to assist with all aspects of the Quality team’s objectives.
- Develop all members of the Quality team to build a full knowledge of the process and to enable all to have a positive role in process control, as well as stimulating change.
- Maintain and control data acquisition and reporting systems.
- Integrate with CWP industry bodies when required, such as WPIF and EPF.
- Maintain control of and develop documentation related to quality systems and operator checks.
- Report and present data to other senior managers to convey information appropriately and aid in the development of the production processes.
- Carrying out internal audits
- Supporting and coordinating external audits in compliance with EN300 standards
The minimum qualifications/experience required for the role:
- 3-5 Years previous experience at Quality Manager level
- Educated to degree level and/or equivalent experience
- Fully qualified auditor conversant with ISO 9001:2015
- Background in quality testing/checks and standards/regulations
If this position sounds like a career for you, get in touch with Nicola Howe via email at Nicola.Howe@WestFraser.com
