Job Title: Brewery Microbiologist and Food Safety Specialist
Organisation: Nile Breweries
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About Organisation:
Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.
Job Summary: The key purpose of this role is to manage brewery Food Safety standards and specifications and to define, develop and implement optimal brewery wide microbiological standards and work practices to ensure compliance to microbiological processes, food safety standards and product specifications.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain safe, healthy and risk-free working environment
- Implement safety, health/environmental procedures and legislation
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
- Manage Human Resources
- Develop employees
- Ensure a positive employee relations climate
- Manage and apply personnel practices
- Quality Control & Food Safety governance for the brewery
- Standards are in place and well understood.
- Training is done against the specified methods.
- Verification of the execution of the procedures to ensure that they comply with the standards.
- Ensure that equipment is calibrated and is functioning as per original standard.
- Highlight of any deviations to the Brewing manager, Packaging manager and Plant manager for action and stopping of the process when necessary
- Manage quality control management
- Conform to value chain requirements
- Manage QC administration
- Optimise the availability of measuring equipment
- Maintain and control consumable stock levels
- Optimise quality control management system
- Optimise team performance
- Facilitate effective team dynamics
- Maintain performance management system
- Communicate effectively in the workplace
- Lead Quality strategy as per VPO
- Improve quality compliance and management on site and reduce reputational risks for the site
- Achieve VPO targets and Quality KPI and PI targets for the site
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor of Science in Microbiology/ Biological Sciences or equivalent
- 3-6 months on the job training
- Experience: 2-3 Years in Laboratory, Brewing or Packaging operation
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- Good knowledge of Food Safety and Micro Laboratory Systems, processes and analyses Experience in the application of problem solving techniques and statistics.
- Good understanding of HACCP, GMP standards and CIP requirements PC literacy Good all round knowledge of AB InBev manufacturing processes and philosophies
- Proven knowledge and experience in integrating and facilitating a multidisciplinary group of skills, specialists and functions
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good auditing skills Information systems knowledge.
- Analytical ability.
- Communication skills (verbal and written).
- Problem Solving ability Ability to work in teams
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
Deadline: 1st August 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 3