Quality Process Specialist

at  Wakefield Canada

Wakefield Canada Inc. is an industry leading Canadian company that manufactures, distributes and markets category-leading products for the automotive, commercial heavy-duty, and industrial markets including Castrol, the #1 brand of passenger car motor oil in Canada, and the “Super Clean” cleaner-degreaser brand.
Wakefield Canada Inc. has an excellent opportunity for a full time QUALITY PROCESS SPECIALIST. This position is responsible for the safe, productive, and quality compliant activities of the Quality Services Laboratory at the Toronto manufacturing facility.

• Ensure the Quality Control of incoming fluid raw materials, finished blended products, and finished packaged products.
• Generate statistical data pertaining to the accuracy and precision of the laboratory equipment and methods.
• Ensure accurate and reliable test procedures and lab equipment.
• Maintain fluid raw material and blended finished product inspection data files.
• Issue Non-Conforming Material Reports and Corrective Action requests.
• Maintains NCMR list, Corrective Action databases in Microsoft Access and Q inventory disposition.
• Ensure compliance to quality procedures and programs as they pertain to the activities at the production floor level. This can include auditing of quality activities such as packaging raw material inspections and in-process production line quality checks.
• Ensure proper identification, documentation, and storage of non-conforming material.
• Manage sample retain shelves in laboratory and contributes significantly to general housekeeping practices of the laboratory.
• Calibrate lab equipment as per schedule. These would include statistics that clearly show the accuracy and precision of all of the laboratory equipment and methods.
• Provide direction and manages performance of the operation personnel with respect to quality inspection activities.
• Work jointly with the Manufacturing department to ensure the consistent and reliable execution of quality checks and programs including the implementation of new quality initiatives.
• Formulate routine additions of raw materials to production in process so as to maintain product quality within established specifications.
• Ensure Raw Material approval / acceptance-based test results compliance to specifications.
• Generate C.O.A.’s for bulk shipments.
• Responsible for the ordering of all laboratory consumables
• Print all work orders for blending, packaging, and filling.
• Execute adjustments to product bill of materials in the MS Dynamics AX – ERP system.
• Review all completed work orders for compliance to quality testing requirements.
• Update QC testing procedures as required such as changes to equipment and/or testing method.
• Conduct lab safety audits.
• Prepare laboratory blends of new formulas, qualification samples and conducts associated lab tests.
• Conduct testing of field / customer samples and prepares detailed reports of analysis.
• Assist with yearly ISO 9001 and 14001 audits of the manufacturing operation.