Malt Quality Specialist

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 & coordinate Quality Control, Analysis & Systems in compliance with company standards to ensure that the malt used in brewing meets the required quality standards and specifications.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Quality Management

• Partake in the development of required quality systems for the Maltings Plant, contributing suggestions and providing expert advice.
• Ensure the functional and data integrity of the various quality systems, and identify and resolve problem.
• Ensure that quality goals are incorporated into laboratory team and managed through visual boards Daily, Weekly and Monthly Board & Individual Goals.
• Audit compliance to the various quality systems in the laboratory and production.
• Maintain equipment performance report (ERI).
• Compliance to VPO Quality Pillar and other applicable VPO requirements.
• Execute VPO activities in accordance with the VPO work practices.
• Execution of activities to ensure compliance to food safety and quality management systems.

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 Zone changes to analytical standards are implemented, through additional training where necessary.
• Interacts with Zone through various MDT as required, ensuring that regional complexities and requirements are properly understood.

Team Leadership

• Lead the laboratory team in a manner that promotes 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.
• Where training needs have been identified, corrective action must be initiated.
• Exercise budgetary controls over the laboratory.

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.
• Adherence to PPE policy.
• Unsafe conditions and work practices are identified and actioned.
• Chemicals and reagents are handled as per manualized procedure.
• Hazardous substances are stored, handled and disposed of as per procedures.
• Adherence to documented lab safety rules, guides and practices.
• Incidents are reported and actioned as per procedure.
• House keeping schedules are adhered to.

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc degree (Microbiology or Biochemistry)/ (Chemistry or Analytical Chemistry) or equivalent
• 3 - 5 years laboratory experience
• Well developed knowledge of Maltings Process.
• Management Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling Numeracy (budgets, statistical analysis)
• Proven team leadership skills
• Highly assertive
• Outstanding interpersonal and facilitation skills.
• Analytical problem solver and demonstrated ability at implementing effective problem solving
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Good understanding of Standard Work Practices and other VPO methodologies

Additional information:

• BAND: VIII

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short listing.