About Your Mission At Plant YPB
At Storio Group's Plant YPB in The Hague, we're passionate about crafting high-quality products that delight our customers. As our Quality Control Specialist, you'll be a key guardian of this commitment. You'll be on the front lines, ensuring our production processes consistently meet the highest standards, from raw materials to finished goods. Your keen eye for detail, proactive approach, and collaborative spirit will directly contribute to the exceptional quality our customers expect from Storio .
About The Role
As a Quality Control Specialist, you will be instrumental in ensuring the high standards of our products and processes. You'll actively monitor production, implement improvements, and empower your colleagues to maintain exceptional quality. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to deliver consistently excellent products.
Your Daily Adventure At Storio
- Hands-on Quality Assurance: Conduct regular and thorough inspections of products at various stages of production within Plant YPb, ensuring adherence to quality specifications and standards.
- Process Monitoring & Improvement: Observe and analyze production processes, identifying any deviations from established standards. You'll play a crucial role in recommending and implementing corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Deviation Management: Accurately document and report any quality deviations or non-conformances, ensuring timely communication to relevant teams and contributing to effective resolution.
- Procedure Support: Assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of clear and effective quality control procedures, work instructions, and checklists specific to Plant YPb's operations.
- Problem Solving: Participate in investigations of quality issues, utilizing problem-solving methodologies to identify root causes and implement preventative measures within the plant.
- Training & Guidance: Provide support and guidance to production team members on quality standards, procedures, and best practices, fostering a culture of quality awareness on the plant floor.
- Equipment Management: Oversee the proper use and basic maintenance of quality control equipment, ensuring its accuracy and reliability.
- Material & Component Checks: Conduct inspections of incoming raw materials and components to verify they meet required quality standards before entering the production process.
- Proactive Communication: Maintain open and effective communication with production teams, supervisors, and other relevant departments regarding quality-related matters.
- Data-Driven Insights: Collect, record, and analyze quality data to track key performance indicators (KPIs). You'll contribute to management reports, providing valuable insights into our quality performance.
How You Make Your Mark
- Develop and maintain quality-related documentation, including SOPs, CTQs, and Operator Maintenance logs.
- Support the SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment, and Quality) department with analyses, investigations, and control systems.
- Conduct regular testing of materials, raw ingredients, and finished products.
- Plan, execute, and document regular audits and controls, including follow-up actions.
- Actively participate in improvement projects and support improvement teams.
- Demonstrate flexibility in taking on tasks, communicating effectively, and meeting deadlines.
- Proactively raise concerns if deadlines are at risk or adjustments are needed.
What You Bring To The Party
- Quality Focus: You consistently seek ways to improve processes based on feedback, clearly communicate quality expectations, and encourage a quality-conscious mindset in others.
- Problem Analysis: You effectively identify issues by asking targeted questions and utilizing relevant information from various sources to quickly determine root causes and consequences.
- Attention to Detail: You maintain vigilance and accuracy in routine tasks, meticulously check your own work, and remain alert to even minor details.
- Digital reporting: As part of our digital age, you are used to making spreadsheets and presentations to report findings and improvements.
Education
- MBO (Senior Secondary Vocational Education): For many executive QC tasks, where you perform checks and follow procedures, a completed MBO education in a relevant field is often sufficient. This includes MBO levels 3 or 4 in areas such as:
- Food Technology
- Laboratory Technology
- Process Technology
- Technical training (depending on the industry)
- General operational technology
- HBO (Bachelor/Higher Professional Education): For more coordinating, managerial, or specialist positions within quality control, a junior HBO candidate will also be considered. Relevant HBO studies may include:
- Food Technology
- Chemistry
- Biotechnology
- Process Technology
- Quality Management
Extra Kudos For Experience
- Previous experience working in a production environment.
- Experience with process optimization and/or root cause analysis techniques.
- English is essential, Dutch and Polish are big pros
- Using AI
Why You'll Love It Here
- At Storio group, we offer a dynamic and international working environment that fosters professional growth and personal development. You will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with an international diverse team, enriching your experience and broadening your horizons. We provide competitive compensation packages, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive work culture that values innovation and joy.
- This position falls under the Graphic Media - Collective Labor Agreement.
About Us
We are Storio group, a place where life’s stories are made, crafted and shared. A place where we create new ways to pass memories and stories between people and generations. And where, together, we make joy unforgettable . We bring our customers’ stories to life through a range of high-quality personalised photo products, like photo books, wall decor, calendars & gifts. Our innovative technology enables customers to easily personalise their creations to keep for themselves or share as the most thoughtful of gifts.
Every single one of our employees brings something unique to Storio group and leaves a lasting imprint on our work, our culture and our company. Storio group is a place where we can all see and feel the impact of what we do, every day. A career with us is an opportunity to make your mark on our customers’ lives and on your career.
Our Values Shape Everything We Do, From Our Interactions With Customers And Colleagues To The Way We Approach Our Work. We Believe In Fostering An Environment Where Everyone Can Thrive And Contribute To Our Shared Success. At Storio Group, We
Act with heart: People - both customers and employees - are at the heart of all we do. So we embrace diversity and get to know each other as real people and build real relationships based on mutual understanding and respect.
Give our best : As the crafters and makers of people’s memories, we play an important role in our customers’ lives. That’s why we give our best and work together to make the right decisions and build a better business everyday.
Own all we do: We are all, as individuals and as a team, responsible for creating our success and shaping our future. We lead the charge and drive things forward - fully owning our actions and decisions along the way.
Embrace curiosity : We believe progress requires curiosity. So, we’re relentlessly curious about the world and each other, actively seeking out diverse perspectives and always asking big questions like ‘why’ and ‘what’s next’?
Find the joy : At Storio, joy matters. We see it as a state of mind, so while we don’t pretend every day will be easy, we do set out every day to intentionally find, create and share big and little moments of joy with our customers and teammates.
Equal opportunities statement
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment regardless of age, disability, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
If you have a disability or special need that requires reasonable adjustments in order for you to perform at your peak during the interview, please let our HR team know ahead of time so that they can assist. We will consider the matter carefully and try to accommodate your needs within reason. If we consider a particular adjustment would not be reasonable we will explain our reasons and try to find an alternative solution where possible.
Sponsorship
We aren't able to offer sponsorship for this role so please only apply if you have the Right to Work without the need for sponsorship
