Quality Team Lead

Diageo•Montgomery, AL

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Diageo Montgomery is a new manufacturing and warehousing facility in Montgomery, Alabama, enhancing the company’s North America supply chain operations. The Quality Team is responsible for ensuring compliance with government regulations, ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, and corporate requirements. The Quality Team Leader supervises the day-to-day quality operations to ensure Food Safety and Quality assurance standards are maintained and quality systems reliably control distilled products to meet Diageo’s specifications. This role involves sensory, analytical, and microbiological analysis, evaluation of manufacturing materials, monitoring Quality Technicians, and collaborating with production employees to ensure products meet package quality standards. The Quality Team Leader develops, implements, and monitors policies, procedures, and training programs to support the site quality agenda, focusing on employee safety, management of night shift Quality Technicians, ensuring compliance with Food Safety/HACCP requirements, providing leadership for Food Safety and Quality issues, supporting innovation and brand changes, and developing processes to improve quality performance.

Requirements

4 year Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
Strong communication, writing, organization and analytical skills with the ability to multi-task.
Ability to effect change within a manufacturing environment through diagnosing, designing and implementing solutions.
Strong leadership and management background, with two (2) years of demonstrated experience leading teams preferred.
Flexibility to work nights and cover assigned weekend shifts in support of a 24/7 operation.

Nice To Haves

Preferably in Packaging, Chemistry or related field or five years' of direct experience or training in quality within a bottling company.
Knowledge of TTB and State regulations pertaining to the production of alcohol beverages is a plus.
Experience with ISO 9001 and FSSC 22000 standards.

Responsibilities

Champion the site Food Safety and personnel safety agendas.
Lead shift operations for Quality.
Deliver product quality on the shift by ensuring day-to-day processes and procedures are in place and followed.
Lead Quality Technicians on assigned shifts, identifying and providing resources required.
Monitor the activities of the Quality technicians and production employees, including evaluation of finished product package quality, formula adherence, and analysis, approval, and release of ingredients, raw materials, liquids, and finished products.
Interact with vendors to ensure compliance to Diageo specification and performance standards, specifically concentrating on packaging components.
Oversee nonconforming and qualification product holds on the assigned shifts to ensure proper processing and disposition.
Lead assigned projects to completion, including projects to build Quality and Food Safety systems and programs.