Quality Control & Continuous Improvement Specialist

In this hands-on role, you’ll play a vital part in ensuring product quality, improving processes, and driving operational excellence across our sites.

Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll combine scientific analysis, problem-solving, and continuous improvement methodologies to enhance quality standards, mitigate risks, and optimise performance.

You’ll help to implement quality and CI strategies across multiple operational areas, support root cause investigations, drives process improvements, and ensure compliance with regulatory and internal standards. You’ll help to foster a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement, while contributing to cross-functional collaboration and the overall success of our QC and CI programs.

If enjoy digging into data, solving complex problems, and making tangible improvements; then this role is the perfect opportunity for you to make an impact.

About you:

You come from a quality control or continuous improvement background, maybe from a laboratory or production environment.

It would be great if you have a life science, science or engineering education/background.

You’re flexible and adaptable to change, you’re comfortable moving from task to task, and project to project. You’re collaborative and can work with multiple teams, departments and stakeholders

You’re proactive, you’re process driven, you’re curious to ask what, why and how. You have a continuous improvement mindset and like to investigate and solve problems.

You’re experienced with Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, FMEA, and process mapping. Ideally, you’ll hold a yellow belt qualification, maybe even a green belt. You’ll be working with a project lead who is a black belt – we even have a master black belt.

Location/Benefits:

Working at our Hillcrest site in Belton (NW Leicestershire), this is a full-time role, working Monday to Friday between 08:00-16:15.

• Salary upwards of £37,850 (depending on experience)
• 33 days holiday (inc. 8 public holidays).
• Core benefits including life assurance and pension, plus income protection after 3 years of service.
• Flexible benefits scheme, with optional private health insurance, health cash plan, technology scheme, and retail discounts.
• Wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme and our wellbeing portal with fitness videos, recipes and mindfulness exercises, plus much more.

Due to the nature of this role, candidates cannot have pet rodents (mice, rats or guinea-pigs) or rabbits for biosecurity reasons. Please make us aware if you have animals that feed on rodents (snakes, birds).

Candidates must be able to drive and have access to their own vehicle.

About us:

Inotiv is a growing global contract research organisation (CRO) supporting drug discovery and development. Our work contributes to scientific and medical advances that improve health and wellbeing worldwide. At every stage of the journey, our teams play a key role in delivering quality science and operational excellence.

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Inotiv is a growing contemporary drug discovery and development company where we “Play to Win” in an industry rich with opportunity.  Together, we face challenges and together we win in the delivery of world-class drug discovery and development solutions that impact the health and well-being of people all over the world.  There’s an opportunity for everyone at all phases of a career, each individual’s unique skill set has an impact on the work we conduct. If you have the talent and desire to impact the quality of people’s lives, we have the career opportunities to make it happen.  Join us in embracing research and science to impact the health and well-being of people all over the world.

Salary will be commensurate with experience and responsibilities.

Inotiv is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity to all persons, regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. This policy governs all aspects of employment, including selection, job assignment, compensation, discipline, termination and access to benefits and training.