International Breweries Plc - Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world. Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients.
Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois; multi-country brands Beck’s, Castle, Castle Lite, Hoegaarden, and Leffe; and local champions such as Aguila, Bud Light, Jupiler, Klinskoye, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Skol, and Victoria.
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 company standards and specifications.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
Quality Management:
Partake in the development of required quality systems for the brewery, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice
implement any required quality system, or changes current systems, ensuring the laboratory teams have the required competencies
Ensure that quality goals are incorporated into laboratory team and individual goals
audit compliance to the various quality systems by both the laboratory team and shift based production teams.
Exercise budgetary controls over the asset care requirements of brewing and utilities plant
liaise with Central office around quality, and take part in regional and divisional MDTs.
Quality Control and Analyses:
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 ensuing that laboratory equipment is operating optimally and to identify problems or opportunities timeously
Ensure that COT changes to analytical standards are implemented, through additional training where necessary
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:
Lead the laboratory team in a manner that engenders ownership, empowerment and team interaction
Ensuring that the laboratory team understands and adhered to the operational, quality and process standards, work instructions and calibration schedules and performance target
Mentoring, supporting and coaching team members in the context execution of their tasks
Develop subordinates and ensure training needs are met by carrying our training needs analysis, one-on-one's and performance reviews. Where training needs have been identified, corrective action must be initiated the QC manager must drive performance management practices (e.g. IMP), lead the development of team goals and carry out performance reviews and team goal review sessions
Exercise budgetary controls over the laboratory.
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 SAB 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.
Where unsafe work practices have been identified, the QC manager is responsible for correcting this.
Minimum Requirements
BSc Degree in Micro or Biochemistry or Analytical / Micro Diploma
5 Years laboratory experience in supervisory or management capacity
Well developed knowledge of Brewing /Packaging Process.
Key Attributes and Competencies:
Analytical
interpretative
Management Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling
Numeracy (Budgets, Statistical Analysis)
Communication, Innovation, Problem Solving, Team Leadership.