Quality Specialist

Seniority Level:
Primary purpose and function of position:
To provide Technical Support to the site in the area of quality, food/feed safety and legality compliance and act as a main point of contact for Micro, audit program, quality investment projects and assisting the introduction of new brewing materials.

This job description and the job title QA Specialist is not necessarily descriptive of all duties and does not restrict flexibility. You may be required, from time to time, to carry out tasks in addition to or instead of your normal duties, either for the Company or for AB InBev, provided that they are reasonable and within your capabilities.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

- Comply to EHS, Food/Feed Integrity and GMP (including HACCP) standards
- Participate at Zone Brewery Support Audits and review in order to implement an appropriate action plan
- Co-ordinate all quality improvement projects
- Co-ordinate and monitor VPO audit requirements
- Analyses microbiology results, sets up, co-ordinates, follow up appropriate actions. Finalise reporting
- Set up, co-ordinate, data capture and KPI reporting system
- Act as SPOC for Brewing Quality, Food/Feed safety and Micro
- Co-ordinates third party audits by external bodies for FEMAS & BRC. Needs to ensure that appropriate action plans are in place
- Lead Quality Improvement initiatives and PDCAs
- Take a lead role in site HACCP team
- Executes tasks as dictated by the role’s checklist
- Attend meetings as required by the schedule of meetings
- KPI accountability as per MCRS document

Development of a strong and cohesive team
- Walk the floor - lead by example, positively challenge under-performance, reinforce good behaviours
- Constantly drives to ensure responsibility and accountability are driven and enforced at lowest level within the day to day operations of team
- Celebrate successes - work collaboratively to develop appropriate recognition policies for the site
- Actively seek feedback and monitor progress against plans
- Develops people and team
- Motivates team to achieve departmental KPI’s and deliver high standards of performance
- To support the Quality FLM in the management of the quality team.

Control of cost, budget and resources
- Ensures cost optimisation across all areas of the department
- Ensure all projects are managed on time and to budget
- Assist with capital projects as required
- Shares accountability in the maintenance and utility cost performance across the department
- Improves energy / utilities consumption performance
- Ensures all activities are in adherence to SLA and local governance

Quality, Food/Feed Safety, Environment, Health and Safety and compliance to standards
- Promote safe working practices and complies to ES, quality and HACCP standards
- Ensure compliance with all company and departmental standards and processes and legal obligations
- Takes ownership for creation of SOP’s
- Ensure continuous improvement to consumption of energy and utilities within department
- Ensure appropriate SLA’s are met in regards to maintaining quality standards and specifications
- Takes ownership for adherence to processes within area e.g. SLA’s and health and safety performance

Key Skills, Knowledge & Competencies:

- Excellent computer, numeracy, literacy and verbal communication skills
- Ability to operate effectively as part of a team and to work on own using initiative
- Results focused with a strong attention to detail and an ability to work flexibly to achieve departmental goals
- Strong organisation skills with a structured and systematic approach, adhering to deadlines, able to work on own initiative and prioritise workload effectively
- Ensure effective management of challenging industrial relations issues
- Ensure effective management of significant change issues
- Contribute excellent knowledge of manufacturing principles, tools and techniques and project management principles
- Ensure successful delivery of process improvement initiatives
- Ensure effective management of a complex large department
- Act as a role model for the ten principles ensure that the culture within the department is aligned to the ten principles