Quality coordinator

Your role 

As coordinator of the Quality department, you are responsible for implementing, setting up, maintaining and optimising our quality management system. You have an important role in optimising our certification programmes within the organisation and integrating them into our daily activities.  As part of the QESH team, you will report to the QESH & prevention manager. 

The tasks that fall under your (quality) wings: 

• Quality Control Management: 

• You will monitor, improve and implement ECS Quality Management Systems (QMS), such as ISO9001, BRC, SQAS, BIO,... and this for all sites, located in Zeebrugge, Dourges and Venlo.  You supervise the audits and ensure follow-up of the results.  

• You monitor the operation of the quality control processes throughout the organisation and strive to ensure that they are complied with within the organisation.  You do this partly by carrying out internal audits on the shop floor yourself.  

• You ensure compliance with legal requirements and industry standards.  

• With your hands-on mentality, you manage to set up the internal and external audit plan (according to ECS quality standards).   

• Process improvement: 

• You excel at detecting new trends in the field of quality, and then implementing them within the company's operations.  

• Start monitoring the results of audits and surveys to then turn them into concrete improvement actions.   

  Training and development:  

• You will develop training programmes to increase quality awareness within ECS.  

• Communication to stakeholders:  

• You communicate quality performance figures, findings and improvement plans to your manager.  

• You are the first point of contact for external auditors or regulatory bodies  

Location  

Baron De Maerelaan, Zeebrugge (willing to travel to the various sites, with sporadic visits to our office in Venlo or warehouses in Dourges or UK) 

Your profile  

• Do you recognise yourself in the following?  

• You have at least a Bachelor's degree or demonstrable experience (2-5 years) in a quality management function, preferably in logistics or the food industry.  

• You speak and write Dutch and English fluently, and you can also speak a little French.  

• You have a strong knowledge of quality management principles, methodologies and tools (ISO9001, BRC, BIO, etc.) and are familiar with legal requirements and quality standards.  

• You take the reins and are not satisfied until the task is completed from A to Z.   

• You are a real team player, you consult with your team members to achieve harmonious cooperation.  

• You are a strong planner, a crack organiser and love working on a project basis.  

• The quality idea is always top of mind for you and you strive to propagate it.  

• You dare to question matters and take a critical look at the daily operations of the quality team.  

• You have knowledge of audit techniques and the ability to draw up reports correctly.  

• An existing knowledge of the logistics sector is a plus.