Quality Control Manager

Brewdog; Ellon; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension enhancement

Sabbatical

Staff discounts

Extra holidays

Healthcare & life insurance

Diversity & Inclusion groups

Job summary

BrewDog is looking for a Quality Control Manager to oversee all QC programmes across our beer operations. You will ensure microbiological and analytical conformity to specification, drive process improvements and support new product development.

By leading the Laboratory and Operational Quality teams, you will implement testing regimes, perform root cause analyses and report KPIs to senior leadership. You will champion food safety and maintain certifications across global sites.

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality control programmes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of food safety and certification standards.

Responsibilities

• Strategic management of the Quality Control function.
• Design and run microbiological, analytical and sensory programmes.
• Develop new beer testing regimes for conformance and safety.
• Lead root-cause analysis of quality issues.
• Report Quality KPIs to senior leadership.
• Drive improvements in beer quality through data analysis.

Job description

About Us

PENSION ENHANCEMENTS UP TO 10% | 4-WEEK SABBATICAL EVERY 5 YEARS | STAFF DISCOUNT | EXTRA HOLIDAY DAY EACH YEAR

We love great craft beer. We want everyone to be as passionate about it as we are – and our central team are vital in this mission. Every single person in our team can shape our future for the better, whether that’s for our people, planet or our incredible beer. Because we expect great things from you, we give great things back.

PENSION ENHANCEMENT | We increase our contributions to your pension up to 10% of your salary so together we can properly invest in your future. And, since the statutory amount all businesses pay is 3%, our decision to pay above that shows we’re taking your future seriously.

4-WEEK SABBATICAL| After every 5 years here you will receive an additional 4 weeks off to spend doing whatever you want.

STAFF DISCOUNT | 25% off in bars, 30% off online and 50% off BrewDog Merch to fill up your fridge and your wardrobe* (*don’t put your hoody in the fridge though)

ADDITIONAL HOLIDAY DAYS | For every full year completed up to your 5th year with us we add on one additional day’s leave above and beyond your initial entitlement. You therefore get an extra full week off at 5 years every single year onward to rest up.

AND A LOT MORE | Okay, deep breath… enhanced sick pay, healthcare, life assurance, high street retail discounts, employee assistance programmes, enhanced family friendly policies around maternity and paternity leave, DE+I and crew forum groups.

About The Role

Job Purpose

To oversee all of BrewDog’s Quality Control programmes. The Quality Control Manager ensures the release of beer microbiologically and analytically compliant to specification, the continual improvement of beer flavour, supporting process optimisation to improve beer quality and driving new product development.

Through managing the Laboratory and Operational Quality support teams, the Quality Control Manager strategically and tactically drives conformance to BrewDog’s beer QC standards, while using Quality research to improve production productivity and root cause analyse production related non-conformities.

Key Result Area / Principal Duties & 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 key performance metrics to the wider business and outlining performance 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 sensory and analytical conformance to requirements.
• New product development.
• Investigation of customer complaints.
• Key representation on food safety management team and ensuring that FSSC certification requirements are maintained.
• Develop and facilitate global quality control best practice.

Key Relationships - Internal & External

Internal

• Quality team.
• Production teams – packaging, brewing, maintenance, warehouse, distilling.
• Health & Safety team.
• Facilities team.
• Supply Chain.
• Customer service.
• Marketing team.
• International business units (Columbus, Berlin, Brisbane, Outposts).
• Senior Leadership Team.

External

• Suppliers & contractors.
• Customers.
• Campden BRI and external laboratories.
• Research academic institutions.
• Other breweries and production businesses.

Health & Safety

• Ensure that Health and Safety guidelines and fire