Packaging Lab Specialist at International Breweries

The key purpose of this role is to manage and co-ordinate brewery quality control and to ensure quality analysis is conducted in compliance with the company standards and specifications for the transformation into information.

Key outputs and responsibilities:

Quality Management:

• 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.

Quality Control and Analysis:

• 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 take into account regional specificity, where necessary
• Interacts with COT through various MDT fora as required, ensuring that regional complexities and requirements are properly understood

Team Leadership:

• Ensuring that team members understands and adheres to the operational, quality and process standards, work instructions and calibration schedules and performance target
• Mentoring, supporting and coaching team members in the correct execution of their tasks
• Develop subordinates and ensure training needs are met by carrying out training needs analysis

Safety and Housekeeping:

• Ensure that the engineering team apply proper safety and housekeeping procedures, and adhere to all legal requirements when carrying out their tasks
• Ensure implementation of the appropriate ABInBev and legislative policies (such as OSH act) on safety and housekeeping
• Ensure that safety and housekeeping receive appropriate focus through regular checks and safety audits
• Responsible for correcting unsafe work practices identified

Profile:

Education:

• Min – Bachelor of Science in Analytical Chemistry, Food Technology/ Microbiology or equivalent

Experience:

• 2-3 Years in Laboratory, Brewing or Packaging operation
• Analytical
• Interpretative
• Management Planning, Organising, Leading and Controlling
• Numeracy (budgets, statistical analysis)
• Communication. Innovation. Problem Solving. Team Leadership