Quality Lead Packaging Technician (SAPB)

Boston Beer Company•Breinigsville, PA

18d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Lead Packaging Technician is a full-time night-shift role at the Samuel Adams Brewery in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. The role leads packaging quality assurance and packaging material activities while supporting brewery quality and safety programs. It oversees night-shift operations across packaging, chemistry, and microbiology laboratories; supports and coaches technicians; and helps ensure products and materials meet quality standards. The position also drives continuous improvement, troubleshoots issues, and partners with Brewing and Packaging to resolve process deviations. The role works in a production environment with constant noise, production equipment, forklifts, and spaces that may experience extreme temperatures. Overtime may be needed, including 12-hour days, weekends, and holidays. Required brewery safety procedures and assigned personal protective equipment must be followed.

Requirements

2 to 4 years of work experience in a production facility or laboratory environment.
Familiarity with packaging, brewing, and microbiological laboratory practices.
Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), 5S, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and laboratory and production safety practices.
Mechanical aptitude and experience operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting equipment.
Proficiency with computers and automated equipment used to enter and interpret data, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and QI Analyst.
Experience using continuous improvement, analytical, problem-solving, and project-management skills in a production or laboratory environment.
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across multiple functions and levels.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, including repeated lifting, and regularly walk or stand for extended periods of up to 11 hours per day.
Ability to perform production activities including crouching, bending, twisting, reaching, climbing stairs, and working from heights or elevated platforms, and to wear assigned personal protective equipment.

Responsibilities

Oversee night-shift operations across the packaging, chemistry, and microbiology labs, ensuring work meets quality, safety, and operating standards.
Lead and support technicians by coordinating workflow, providing coaching and training, validating adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and maintaining capability records.
Investigate production and process deviations, facilitate Root Cause Analyses (RCAs), escalate issues as needed, and help develop effective resolutions.
Review, update, and create quality SOPs and communicate process changes through One-Point Lessons (OPLs) in partnership with the Training Department.
Audit Critical Points (CPs) and Critical Control Points (CCPs), conduct Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) audits, validate processes, and follow through on Quality Assurance Reports (QARs) and Defective Product Material Reports (DPMRs).
Operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and verify laboratory equipment; maintain Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) tracking; participate in sensory panels; and determine whether products meet specifications for release or hold.
Drive continuous improvement by recommending process and equipment improvements, supporting new product transitions, maintaining the lab Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), and building partnerships across Brewing, Packaging, and Quality Assurance.
Work safely in a production environment and follow brewery safety procedures and use assigned personal protective equipment.
Work overtime as needed, potentially including 12-hour days, weekends, and holidays.