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Manager Quality Assurance
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📊 Market ₹180,000–₹300,000/mo (₹2,160,000–₹3,600,000/yr)
About the Company
Job Description : About the Function: Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. It's fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers' hands, you'll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love. About this role Role Purpose Lead the Quality function across the distillery and bottling operations, ensuring product quality, food safety, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement while meeting Diageo quality standards and customer expectations.
Responsibilities
- ● Lead Quality Management System (QMS), GMP, HACCP, FSSC 22000/ISO compliance and internal audits.
- ● Ensure quality of raw materials, in-process controls, fermentation, distillation, maturation, blending and finished spirits.
- ● Manage laboratory operations including chemical and microbiological testing, calibration and batch release.
- ● Drive packaging quality by monitoring filling, closures, labels, coding, leakage, and finished goods inspection.
- ● Investigate customer complaints, quality incidents using RCA, CAPA and continuous improvement tools.
- ● Manage supplier quality, incoming material approvals and vendor audits.
- ● Lead quality KPIs including Right First Time, consumer complaints, process capability, yield improvement and cost of poor quality.
- ● Develop and coach the quality team while fostering a strong quality and food safety culture.
Requirements
- ● M.Sc. (Chemistry/Microbiology/Food Technology/Biotechnology) or Chemical Engineering.
- ● -10 years of experience in distillery, brewery or beverage manufacturing quality.
- ● Knowledge of SAP/LIMS, laboratory systems, HACCP, ISO/FSSC 22000 and statistical quality tools.
- ● Key Competencies
- ● Analytical Thinking
- ● Problem Solving
- ● Stakeholder Management
- ● Regulatory Compliance
- ● Continuous Improvement
- ● Communication
- ● Quality Operations
- ● Play a pivotal role as unit quality manager in collaboration with unit team to improve and sustain quality systems and capability development at unit level
- ● Carry out end of the line inspection of all finished goods at the unit as per UFPS standards
- ● Conduct RM/PM inspection as per standards and sensory evaluation of samples
- ● Lead root cause problem solving investigations for issues that occur on quality at units
- ● Responsible for capability development of unit quality team on quality standards
- ● Engage unit quality teams for the implementation of quality standards
- ● Ensure all regulatory requirements to be complied without any deviations
- ● Responsible for planning and conducting periodic Internal Audit, MRM for FSMS
- ● Take appropriate action/approval for QC hold/under deviation/reworked material
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