**Job Description :** **About you:** As a Quality Assurance Specialist, you are a meticulous and diligent professional with a strong background in quality control within the food & beverage manufacturing industry. You possess excellent leadership skills and have experience leading teams of lab technicians during shifts to ensure that all quality standards and protocols are strictly adhered to. Your expertise in conducting thorougdetailedtions, analyzing data, and implementing corrective actions is crucial for maintaining the highest levels of product quality. In this role, you will also collaborate closely with operational teams to ensure they deliver and own quality throughout the production process. We seek an individual who can effectively connect with cross-functional teams, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and encourage excellence among team members. If you are passionate about upholding quality standards and have the ability to lead by example, we want to hear from you. **Responsibilities and Deliverables:** This role is the main contact point for quality on site during each shift and (in general) needs to: + Ensure that the quality team on shift performs all the required activities and checks + Ensure that the operational team on shift performs all the required activities and checks to produce good quality (semi)product – from raw material intake to finished product + Support the site quality manager to deliver quality improvement programs and projects and to promote quality improvement in their shift + Make on-shift quality decisions and escalate any on-shift quality problems **Subsequently, this role is (during the production shift):** + Responsible to ensure compliance to specifications of raw materials, work in progress and semi-finished product (bulk) through the execution of microbiological and physicochemical analysis, reporting any type of deviation to the corresponding areas and participate in a collaborative manner in the resolution of deviations. + Responsible to make decisions that impact the activities of the QA shop floor and client areas on a day to day basis. + Responsible to be the voice of Quality Assurance with all client areas during a shift + Supervises physicochemical and microbiological laboratory analysis (of raw materials, utilities, semi-finished product and finished product) using high technology equipment ensuring the reliability of results based on local and international standards and methodologies. Examples of analyses are %ART (Total Reducing Sugars), %Alc Vol, %Dry Extract, Gas chromatography and liquid chromatography. + Support the production teams to adjust processes where necessary to ensure proper quality is achieved. + Participate in the application of diagnostic and quality improvement tools, such as root cause problem solving, GMP’s, 5S fundamentals, RCA, and autocontrol systems. + Provides performance tracking and support on production metrics and related processes + Assure the quality of measurements through: + Assurance of accurate maintenance of equipment + Assurance that calibration of verification plan of all equipment (lab & autocontrol) are fully adhered to + Repeatability and reproducibility analysis + Provide training to lab technicians and operations from production areas Team This role reports into the Site operations QA coordinator. The role has no direct reports, but during the shift does have a supervisory role over the shift QA lab analysists. **We Offer stellar benefits!** **Diversity statement:** Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings. Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying. **Character Is Everything** **Don't miss the opportunity and join our phenomenal team!** **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** La Barca **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-05-13 With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. 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