Beer QC Manager - Quality Strategy & Sensory Excellence

BrewDog; Scotland; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension enhancements up to 10%

4-week sabbatical every 5 years

Staff discount

Extra holiday day each year

Enhanced sick pay

Healthcare

Life assurance

High street retail discounts

Employee assistance programmes

DE&I and crew forum groups

Job summary

BrewDog is seeking a Quality Control Manager to lead our QA/QC programmes, ensuring microbiological and analytical conformance and driving product excellence across the brewery.

You will manage Laboratory and Operational Quality teams, implement new testing regimes, and tackle root causes with data-driven analysis to boost production quality.

This role requires extensive brewing QC experience, HACCP/FSSC22000 knowledge, and the ability to train and coach across functions.

Qualifications

• Degree in quality or related field with strong QA/QC foundation.
• Experience leading brewing QC programmes and teams.
• Knowledge of beer production, flavour chemistry and sensory evaluation.
• FSSC 22000 and Food Safety knowledge; HACCP certified.

Responsibilities

• Strategic management of the Quality Control function.
• Structure and execution of microbiological, analytical and sensory programmes.
• Develop and implement new beer testing regimes to maximise specification conformance and customer safety and satisfaction.
• Quality driven root cause analysis and intervention actions for beer quality deviations.
• Quality incident management and positive release strategies to enable the release of specification conformant beer.
• Reporting on Quality KPIs to the wider business and outlining improvement plans.
• Driving beer quality score improvement through data analysis, sensory evaluation and training.
• Provision of training and data to wider operational team to ensure real time quality control at the source.
• Qualification of production raw materials to ensure conformance.
• New product development.
• Investigation of customer complaints.
• Key representation on food safety management team and ensuring that FSSC22000 certification requirements are maintained.
• Develop and facilitate global quality control best practice.

Skills

People management

Beer sensory training

Strategic thinking

Root cause analysis

Data management and reporting

Stakeholder management

Emergency response management

Training and coaching

Education

Degree in quality-related field

HACCP training

GMP knowledge

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

BrewDog is seeking a Quality Control Manager to lead our QA/QC programmes, ensuring microbiological and analytical conformance and driving product excellence across the brewery.

You will manage Laboratory and Operational Quality teams, implement new testing regimes, and tackle root causes with data-driven analysis to boost production quality.

This role requires extensive brewing QC experience, HACCP/FSSC22000 knowledge, and the ability to train and coach across functions.