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

• The Key Purpose of this role is for one to be responsible for barley quality monitoring from harvest until delivery to VOPS. This includes continuous barley storage compliance monitoring throughout the year. The role will take full accountability of all Food Safety and Storage Facilities audits, including audit gaps prioritization and management. Data management to support crop management for SA Dryland and Zambia is key in this position

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 for Caledon Lab (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. 

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• Experience with working in multi-disciplinary teams is critical.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Initiative and self-starter

Minimum Requirements:

• BSc: Agriculture/ Biochemistry/Food Science or equivalent
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in barley quality and grading certificate a requirement
• Auditing certification an advantage
• Exposure to alternative crops- cassava and sorghum - an advantage
• Data: Statistical analysis and evaluation/data interpretation excellence a requirement
• Experience with working in multi-disciplinary teams is critical.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, Power Point and Power BI
• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Initiative and self-starter
• Traveling to Africa will be required