Brewing Lab Specialist at AB InBev

Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?

The Key Purpose of this role is to manage and co-ordinate brewing 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 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 to current systems, ensuring the laboratory teams have the required competencies
• Ensure the functional and data integrity of the various quality systems, and identify and resolve problems
• 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
• Laise with Central Office around quality, and take part in regional and divisional MDT’s

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 ensuring 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 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 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, one-on-ones 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

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Communication
• Innovation
• Problem Solving
• Team Leadership

Minimum Requirements:

• Min – Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Microbiology or equivalent
• Min – 3-6 months on the job training
• 2-3 Years in Laboratory, Brewing or Packaging operation
• Analytical expertise
• Management by Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling.
• Numeracy (budgets, statistical analysis)

Additional Information:

• Band: VIII

The advert has minimum requirements listed. Appointments will be made in line with ABInBev recruitment policy and talent requirements. Assessments and background checks form part of the recruitment process. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.