Beer Quality & Process Improvement Manager

BrewDog PLC; Dunecht; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension enhancement up to 10%

4-week sabbatical every 5 years

Staff discount

Additional holiday days

Job summary

BrewDog PLC is seeking a Quality Control Manager to oversee all QC programmes, ensuring beer is microbiologically and analytically compliant and driving new product development. You will lead the Laboratory and Operational Quality teams, push conformance to BrewDog’s QC standards and use quality insight to improve production productivity and resolve non-conformities.

Ideal candidates hold a degree in a quality-related field, deep knowledge of beer production, sensory evaluation, and HACCP/food

Qualifications

• Degree level in Quality related field.
• Detailed knowledge of beer production processes.
• Detailed knowledge of beer styles, flavour chemistry and sensory evaluation.
• Knowledge of Food Safety and HACCP.

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.
• Quality driven root cause analysis and intervention actions for beer quality deviations.
• Quality incident management and positive release strategies for compliant beer.
• Reporting on quality KPIs and improvement plans.
• Driving beer quality score improvement through data analysis and training.
• Provide training and data to the wider team for real-time quality control.

Skills

People management

Beer sensory training

Strategic thinking

Root cause analysis

Data management

Excel/Word/PowerPoint

Internal audits

Stakeholder management

Emergency response management

Education

Degree in quality-related field

HACCP training

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

BrewDog PLC is seeking a Quality Control Manager to oversee all QC programmes, ensuring beer is microbiologically and analytically compliant and driving new product development. You will lead the Laboratory and Operational Quality teams, push conformance to BrewDog’s QC standards and use quality insight to improve production productivity and resolve non-conformities.

Ideal candidates hold a degree in a quality-related field, deep knowledge of beer production, sensory evaluation, and HACCP/food