Senior Barley Quality Technician at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Barley grading across the process from pre-harvest, intake, composite, transfer and LTS outloading and quality monitoring.
• Execute food safety compliance testing (collecting/compiling sample sets/liaising with third party laboratories to conduct analysis and securing reports, communicating results to stakeholders)
• Support pre-harvest process compliance by storage partners and Barley quality team: ensuring equipment calibration, grader certification and ring test analysis is conducted internally.
• Manage/execute ad hoc refresher training by barley quality team with storage partners on specific parameters identified as risk pre-harvest, to reduce rejections at mill door.
• Track and report progress on analysis vs requirements and communicating status of crop analysis effectively to relevant stakeholders.  
• Track disputes between Maltings and storage partners when applicable or disputes between barley quality team and storage partners and communicate outcomes.
• Track rejections and conducting problem solving for barley rejections along with the Barley Quality Specialist.
• Support closure of improvement actions plans for rejections.
• Support heatmap data management through ensuring all relevant data is captured and reviewed weekly (temp monitoring data/fumigation compliance data etc) for accurate risk allocation.
• Ensure all analysis data is updated and available for VOPs weekly reviews and approval to order or reject stock and capturing decision on heatmaps.
• Execute depot visits, reporting findings and tracking action plan via weekly engagements with storage partners.
• Supports gap closure on storage facility compliance to operational standards through weekly storage partner engagements.
• Support storage partner compliance to contractual agreements and storage practices through monthly depot visits, inspections and ad hoc visits for DMR investigations.
• Executes DMR investigations from VOPs with storage partners, report findings and support action plan closure.
• Manage laboratory consumable stock (Track and monitor stock levels, Raise POs/liaise with suppliers).
• Manage laboratory equipment maintenance through timeous calibration, maintenance and inspections of equipment.
• Support planning and execution of ad hoc trial or research project analysis and data reporting.
• Support SMS implementation.

Minimum Requirements:

• Food science or related tertiary qualification
• Data: Statistical analysis and evaluation/data interpretation capability.
• Experience with working in multi-disciplinary teams is critical.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Initiative and self-starter.
• Barley grading certificate (beneficial)
• Auditor certification (beneficial)
• Experience with barley grading, handling and storage (beneficial)