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Job Title: Quality Team Lead

Diageo is a global leader in alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan’s whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray, and Guinness!

Our performance ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. We are proud of the brands we make and the enjoyment they give to millions. We are passionate about alcohol playing a positive role in society as part of a balanced lifestyle. It is central to our purpose to celebrate life, every day, everywhere!

Diageo is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (Deo) and the London Stock Exchange (DGE). For more information about Diageo, our people, our brands, and performance, visit us at www.diageo.com. Visit Diageo’s global responsible drinking resource, www.DRINKiQ.com, for information, initiatives, and ways to share standard methodology.

Context/Scope

The Quality Team Lead is responsible for ensuring that Diageo’s products are produced in compliance with government regulations, ISO 9001, and corporate requirements. The Team Leader will be responsible for supervising 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 distilled products to meet Diageo specifications. This includes sensory, analytical, and microbiological analysis of product and ingredients, the evaluation of manufacturing materials, monitoring the daily activities of the Quality Technicians in the lab and on production floor, and working with all production employees to assure products meet quality standards.

Purpose Of Role

As a member of the plant Quality Team, the Quality Team Leader is responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring policies, procedures, and training programs for the support of the site quality agenda. As a vital member of the team, this specific position will focus primarily on:

• Ensuring daily compliance of production operation to corporate, regulatory and governmental requirements, especially Food Safety/HACCP requirements.
• Assuring safety of employees
• Track key Quality Metrics and ensure actions are taken to improve critical metrics. Communicate metrics throughout the site.
• Lead Root Cause Problem Solving investigations and implementation of Corrective/Preventive Actions for issues impacting product quality.
• Support Manufacturing Management Systems programs to ensure a World Class Organization. Lead and motivate Quality Team to develop standard methodologies.
• Ensure laboratory systems are fully compliant and functional to assure efficient and effective Quality Control.
• Other duties as requested by Governance Manager
• Support Governance Manager during vacation coverage
• Development and implementation of processes and programs to improve the quality performance of the site; includes SPC and Quality database development and implementation.
• Act as site Quality lead for liquid control, change control, and incoming material supply.

Key Outputs

• Interact with vendors to ensure compliance to Diageo specification and performance standards, specifically concentrating on packaging components.
• 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 performance standards.
• 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 assigned projects to completion. Includes projects to build Quality and Food Safety systems and programs.
• Oversee nonconforming and qualification product holds on the assigned shifts to ensure the proper processing and disposition.

Qualifications And Experience Required

• Knowledge of TTB and provincial and federal regulations pertaining to the production of alcohol beverages is a plus, as is experience with ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certification.
• Demonstrated ability to effect change within a manufacturing environment through diagnosing, designing and implementing solutions.
• Strong leadership and management background, with two years of demonstrated experience managing direct reports preferred.
• BA/BS Chemistry or related field or five plus years of experience or training in Quality. Strong communication, writing, organization and analytical skills with the ability to multi-task.

Worker Type

Regular

Primary Location:

Gimli Plant

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date

2023-07-25