Quality Lead Packaging Technician (SAPB)

About the role

We are currently hiring a Full Time Lead Quality Technician at the Samuel Adams Brewery in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania for night shift 6pm–6am. As a Lead Quality Technician, you’ll help lead Packaging Quality Assurance and packaging material activities while supporting the brewery’s quality and safety programs. You’ll oversee night-shift lab operations across packaging, chemistry, and microbiology, support and coach technicians, and help ensure products and materials meet quality standards. You’ll also drive continuous improvement, troubleshoot issues, and partner with Brewing and Packaging to resolve process deviations. Position level: 8IC.

Responsibilities

• Oversee night-shift operations across the packaging, chemistry, and microbiology labs, ensuring work meets quality, safety, and operating standards.
• Lead and support Technicians by coordinating workflow, providing coaching and training, validating adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and maintaining capability records.
• Investigate production and process deviations, facilitate Root Cause Analyses (RCAs), escalate issues as needed, and help develop effective resolutions.
• Review, update, and create quality SOPs and communicate process changes through One-Point Lessons (OPLs) in partnership with the Training Department.
• Audit Critical Points (CPs) and Critical Control Points (CCPs), conduct Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) audits, validate processes, and follow through on Quality Assurance Reports (QARs) and Defective Product Material Reports (DPMRs).
• Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and verify laboratory equipment; maintain Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) tracking; participate in sensory panels; and determine whether products meet specifications for release or hold.
• Drive continuous improvement by recommending process and equipment improvements, supporting new product transitions, maintaining the lab Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), and building effective partnerships across Brewing, Packaging, and Quality Assurance.
• Work safely in a production environment with constant noise, production equipment, and forklifts, including spaces that may experience extreme temperatures.

Requirements

• 2 to 4 years of work experience in a production facility or laboratory environment.
• Familiarity with packaging, brewing, and microbiological laboratory practices.
• Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), 5S, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and laboratory and production safety practices.
• Mechanical aptitude and experience operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting equipment.
• Proficiency with computers and automated equipment used to enter and interpret data, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and QI Analyst.
• Experience using continuous improvement, analytical, problem-solving, and project-management skills in a production or laboratory environment.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across multiple functions and levels.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, including repeated lifting, and regularly walk or stand for extended periods of up to 11 hours per day.
• Ability to perform required production activities including crouching, bending, twisting, reaching, climbing stairs, and working from heights or elevated platforms, and to wear assigned personal protective equipment.

Pay

In accordance with pay transparency laws the pay rate for this role if hired is $30.40 per hour. Where the person hired starts in this range is dependent on their related experience, skillset, and location.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement
• Fertility/adoption support
• Free financial coaching
• Health & wellness program and discounts
• Professional development & training
• Free beer!

Schedule

Night shift, 6:00 PM–6:00 AM. Overtime as needed, which may include 12-hour days, weekends, and holidays, while following all required brewery safety procedures and using assigned personal protective equipment.