Job - Quality Assurance Specialist

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

·Ensure that the quality team on shift performs all the required activities and checks

·Ensure that the operational team on shift performs all the required activities and checks to produce good quality (semi)product – from raw material intake to finished product

·Support the site quality manager to deliver quality improvement programs and projects and to promote quality improvement in their shift

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Subsequently, this role is (during the production shift):

·Responsible to ensure compliance to specifications of raw materials, work in progress and semi-finished product (bulk) through the execution of microbiological and physicochemical analysis, reporting any type of deviation to the corresponding areas and participate in a collaborative manner in the resolution of deviations.

·Responsible to make decisions that impact the activities of the QA shop floor and client areas on a day to day basis.

·Responsible to be the voice of Quality Assurance with all client areas during a shift

·Supervises physicochemical and microbiological laboratory analysis (of raw materials, utilities, semi-finished product and finished product) using high technology equipment ensuring the reliability of results based on local and international standards and methodologies. Examples of analyses are %ART (Total Reducing Sugars), %Alc Vol, %Dry Extract, Gas chromatography and liquid chromatography.

·Support the production teams to adjust processes where vital to ensure proper quality is achieved.

·Participate in the application of diagnostic and quality improvement tools, such as root cause problem solving, GMP’s, 5S fundamentals, RCA, and auto control systems.

·Provides performance tracking and support on production metrics and related processes

·Assure the quality of measurements through:

oAssurance of proper maintenance of equipment

oAssurance that calibration of verification plan of all equipment (lab & auto control) are fully adhered to

oRepeatability and reproducibility analysis

·Provide training to lab technicians and operations from production areas

·Other activities include (but are not limited to):

oStatistical Process Control Analysis: CP and CPK

oParticipation in industrial tests from the initial stage

oExecution of process improvement versus process capability

oGeneration of documents related to the Quality Laboratory and Quality shop floor

oExecution of process improvement versus process capability

oParticipation in quality audits

oImplementation of improvements in QA procedures

oParticipation in follow-up and process improvement meetings

oRegistration of results of process samples in SAP system and internal rate card

oPerformance of quality controls to evidence the good performance of the methods in the whole site

oEvaluate, store and control reagents and reference materials

oMaintenance and propagation of the yeast strains for tequila production

We offer stellar benefits!!

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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