Job Description :

The Diageo Stitzel Weller site has both bottling and maturing operations. Quality is responsible for ensuring that Diageo's products are produced in compliance with government regulations and corporate requirements!

Control of Quality and food safety processes is critical to Diageo’s ambitions of achieving best in CPG Supply Chain status in all aspects of our business, including product quality, customer happiness, and distillation/manufacturing efficiencies. To ensure this standing, robust Quality Management Systems must be embedded at all Conversion Sites assuring right first time production, process throughput, and cost avoidance due to off quality production. This includes ensuring that Diageo's high standards are maintained and that the site meets the Diageo Food Safety and Compliance policies as well as the Diageo Global Risk Management Standards!

Purpose of Role:

The purpose of this role is to handle key Quality processes. As a member of the governance team, the Second Shift Quality Technician is responsible for ensuring that production maintains the established standards and quality control systems outlined by Diageo to safely produce quality liquid of our distilled products that meet Diageo's commercially accepted criteria. This role’s primary area of focus is as follows:

• Facilitate a site Quality Management System.

• Maintain ISO 9001, ISO 22000 as well as FSSC 22000 programs

• Support the site through standardization of the site quality processes, including the continued development and maintenance of the site quality policies and procedures

• Maintains the site Document Control program, including Quality Manual / Standards, Process Maps, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), Work Instructions, Records and functional documents/operational guidelines. The document program must follow the requirements of ISO 22000, 22002-1 and FSSC 22000.

• Handles key Quality processes, such as the MIR database / process and Quality lab database system / records

• Delivers training for employees on assigned Quality system requirements and procedures

• Supports Quality and Food Safety programs to assure compliance to standards including ISO preparation, evaluation and registration.

• Performing microbiological testing of water, distilled products and ingredients.

• Performing process audits to coordinate compliance to Global Risk Management and North American Standards as well as Nationally recognized standards.

• Performing inspections of raw materials to ensure conformance to product specifications

• Performing sensory analysis and analytical testing on process products, finished products and ingredients

• Assist site with the overall governance agenda (total quality management- Risk, Environmental, Security) per line manager. This may include but is not limited to various inspections, recordkeeping, project management.

• Track and document site critical metrics and report out as required.

Key Outputs:

• Deliver a robust Quality Management System for the site to the expectations of interested parties.

• Deliver on the ISO/HACCP/Food Safety agenda, as measured against compliance targets.

• Lead the eQMS global database system for document control at the site

• Facilitate SOP and work instruction writing as the site resource for writing controlled documents

• Support MIR process within the site and with suppliers to drive resolution and corrective action, and minimize outstanding costs to recover

• Maintain compliance to ISO 9001:2015, Food Safety and GRMS standards

• Internal auditor for document control and other ISO and GRMS requirements, both Quality and Food Safety related.

• Document procedures to ensure consistency in the use and operation of test equipment

• Perform microbiological testing and analysis in accordance with Company defined protocols

• Deliver on Quality objectives as assigned

• Support and assist with the site governance agenda

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Strong communication, interpersonal skills and organization skills with the ability to multi-task

• Demonstrated knowledge of sanitation chemicals and their usage, SDS, and protective equipment

• Validated experience to effect change within a manufacturing environment through diagnosing, crafting and implementing solutions

• Knowledge of FDA, USDA, ISO and HACCP a plus

• Familiarity with performing microbiological testing is a plus.

• Degree/Diploma in Science or Engineering preferred or 3-5 years of analytical experience in a laboratory or in a plant environment

• Ability to analyze issues and provide logical resolutions

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Stitzel Weller

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-05-02

Salary Range:

Minimum Salary:

$54863

Maximum Salary:

$91438

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.

With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.

Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.

With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

DRINKiQ

What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. You can discover everything you need to know at DRINKiQ (https://www.drinkiq.com/en-gb/)