Brewery Laboratory Specialist at International Breweries

Key Purpose

• The key purpose of this role to provide Career opportunity exists for a highly skilled and result driven Laboratory Specialist in Ilesha Plant reporting directly to the Quality Manager.
• To manage and coordinate Brewery quality control and to ensure QA analysis is conducted in compliance with AB InBev standards and specifications for transforming information into recognized Lab standards and procedures.

Key Outputs and Responsibilities

• Ensure the functional and data integrity of the various quality systems and identify and resolve problems.
• Audit compliance to the various quality systems by both the laboratory team and shift-based production teams.
• Liaise with Central Office around quality and take part in regional and divisional MDT's.
• Checking and verifying that team members are carrying out quality checks and analyses and recording the information on the appropriate systems.
• Verifies that the quality systems are working properly, and that data integrity and information accuracy is being maintained.
• Responsible for ensuring that laboratory equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously.
• Ensures that COT standards have been adapted to consider regional specificity, where necessary. Interacts with COT through various MDT fora as required, ensuring that regional complexities and requirements are properly understood.
• Ensuring that team members understand and adheres to the operational, quality and process standards, work instructions and calibration schedules and performance target.

Profile
Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Microbiology or equivalent.

Experience:

• 3 - 6 months on the job training.

Qualifications:

• Quality certification in Quality Engineering/Management or TQM.
• City & Guilds Qualification recommended.
• Qualified ISO 9000 series auditor.

Key attributes and competencies:

• Good knowledge of Food Safety and Micro Laboratory Systems, processes, and analyses
• Experience in the application of problem-solving techniques and statistics.
• Good understanding of HACCP, GMP standards and CIP requirements
• Good all-round knowledge of AB InBev manufacturing processes and philosophies
• Proven knowledge and experience in integrating and facilitating a multidisciplinary group of skills, specialists and functions
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good auditing skills Information systems knowledge.
• Analytical ability.
• Communication skills (verbal and written).
• Problem Solving ability
• Ability to work in teams.