Job ID: 103146 / Location: Trier / Start: As soon as possible / Contract type: permanent
Your job mission:
The incumbent contributes significantly to maintaining high standards of quality across product development and technical projects. This position is responsible for planning and coordinating analyses performed by the Quality Assurance (QA) laboratory ensuring the timely availability of samples for R&D teams and sensory evaluation panels. Additional responsibilities include incoming goods inspection, inventory management and control, and preparation for customs audits. As such, this role critically contributes to timely availability of quality data to support key decisions and accelerate speed to market.
Who are we?
JTI is a leading international tobacco company with locations in more than 130 countries and world-famous brands such as Winston, Camel and American Spirit. With our brands Nordic Spirit, Logic and Ploom, we also focus on growth through innovations in the field of reduced risk products. In Germany, we are the largest employer in our industry with over 2,000 employees.
As a multiple award-winning top employer, we offer an open and inclusive working environment with exciting tasks in a challenging environment. Flexible working concepts, diverse development opportunities and international career paths are part of our everyday life. Visit us at to find out more about JTI and what it's like to work for us.
Your tasks:
* Timely coordination of Quality Assurance laboratory analyses for all product development and technical projects within various R&D departments
* Preparation of Product Development samples, including ordering registration, and inventory management for all test products
* Physical handling of Product Development samples and submission to Quality Assurance
* Inventory management and ensuring compliance with tax and customs regulations, including preparation for audits and reporting documents
* Support for the Product Development and Sensory teams in collecting and preparing samples for internal and panel evaluations
* Support for special projects and studies within Research & Development (QIMS – specifications and measurement profiles)
* Coordination and execution of Product Development sample shipments to other locations
Your profile:
* Relevant educational background: Successfully completed commercial education, further education in a commercial/business-related field is advantageous
* Practical experience: Initial professional experience in the PD (Product Development) or QA (Quality Assurance) department is preferred
* Valuable knowledge: Knowledge in inventory management and customs and tax regulations
* Special strengths: Team spirit and strong service orientation, very good communication skills across diverse stakeholder groups / Attentive to detail with good organizational capabilities / Proficient in MS Office programs (especially Excel) as well as in Inventory/Warehouse Management System / Good English skills (written and spoken)
* Suitable personality: Open minded, positive attitude, willingness to learn, flexibility
* Practiced working time model: Flextime
Your benefits:
* Your team: You will work in an open and international working environment with approx. 60 nations at the Trier site.
* Your remuneration: Above-average pay with a current starting salary of 4.224,50 € gross monthly salary with a guaranteed annual salary increase in the first 5 years as well as a 13th and 14th monthly salary. Individual company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits.
* Your meals: Our subsidized company canteen and numerous snack and coffee vending machines ensure your physical well-being.
* Your appreciation: You will receive regular feedback from us and, as your personal safety is important to us, we also protect you in your private life with our JTI accident insurance.
* Your work-life balance: You should enjoy your work! That's why we offer you 30 days of vacation for personal relaxation.
* Your mobility offer: With our BusinessBike program, we offer you the opportunity to lease the bike of your choice at attractive conditions as part of a permanent position. This is an uncomplicated and flexible way to promote your health.
* Your development: We focus on your personal development. We support you with a wide range of internal training courses as well as external training and development opportunities that are tailored specifically to you.
Have we aroused your interest?
Apply directly with your complete application documents (CV, cover letter & references) stating your earliest possible starting date (Job ID 103146).
Diversity & Inclusion
We want everyone at JTI to be themselves and develop their full potential, because each and every one of us makes a valuable contribution to the success of the company and the location in Germany. We live and promote diversity, equality and inclusion accordingly. We have local employee groups and networks, such as the PRIDE Chapter Germany or the togetHER network for female employees, in which committed colleagues are involved, and we support a wide range of projects in our local area. For this and many other activities in the area of diversity & inclusion, we have already been awarded the Global Equality Standard by Ernst & Young.
Sustainability & Commitment
We have particularly close ties to the Trier region and the greater Cologne area through our two locations and want to make a significant contribution to a high quality of life, e.g., through annual clean-up campaigns on the Rhine and Moselle and as a long-standing partner of the Cologne Green Foundation, we are committed to the preservation and expansion of the city's green spaces. Renewable energies are also part of our sustainability goals, which is why we are investing in the expansion of the Bescheid Süd wind farm, located 20 kilometers east of our Trier site, in order to secure green electricity for the region and for our production at the Trier plant. We are constantly reducing the amount of plastic used in the packaging of our classic tobacco products, thus saving tons of plastic waste.
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