Quality Team Lead

About the role

The Quality Team Lead is responsible for supervising the day-to-day quality operations of the facility to ensure that established Food Safety and Quality assurance standards are maintained and quality systems reliably control our various distilled products to meet Diageo’s specifications.

Responsibilities

• Champion the site Food Safety and personnel safety agendas to ensure that Diageo is a safe place to work and that Diageo produces Food Safe products.
• Lead shift operations for Quality. Deliver product quality on the shift by ensuring that day-to-day processes and procedures are in place and followed to meet Diageo specifications and standards.
• Lead Quality Technicians on assigned shifts, identifying and providing resources required to ensure their ability to support production.
• Monitor the activities of the Quality technicians and production employees, including the evaluation of finished product package quality, formula adherence and the analysis, approval, and release of ingredients, raw materials, liquids, and finished products.
• Interact with vendors to ensure compliance to Diageo specification and performance standards, specifically concentrating on packaging components.
• Oversee nonconforming and qualification product holds on the assigned shifts to ensure the proper processing and disposition.
• Lead assigned projects to completion. Includes projects to build Quality and Food Safety systems and programs.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• A 4 year Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Packaging, Chemistry or related field, or five years' of direct experience or training in quality within a bottling company.
• Strong communication, writing, organization and analytical skills with the ability to multi-task.
• Strong leadership and management background, with two (2) years of demonstrated experience leading teams preferred.
• Knowledge of TTB and State regulations pertaining to the production of alcohol beverages is a plus, as is experience with ISO 9001 and FSSC 22000 standards.
• Flexibility to work nights and cover assigned weekend shifts in support of a 24/7 operation.