# Quality Team Lead

**Company**: Diageo
**Location**: Shelbyville, Kentucky
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $68,400 to $114,000 (annual)
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Diageo is seeking a Quality Team Lead to manage quality and food safety for two distilleries.

The successful candidate will ensure high-quality products are produced that satisfy Diageo quality ratings.

Responsibilities include:

- Leading and handling Quality Specialists to ensure compliance with Diageo standards and regulatory requirements

- Ensuring high-quality products are produced from a chemistry and sensory perspective

- Leading laboratory and application of test procedures relating to fermentation, distillation, and maturation

- Managing ISO 9001/FSSC 22000 Quality & Food Safety system compliance

- Developing and running the Quality budget and optimizing capital investments and expenditures

- Identifying business risks and completing required changes to achieve performance results

- Effectively leading and developing direct reports

- Controlling costs and driving Quality/Food Safety benchmarks through continual improvement and root cause problem solving

Key Outputs:

- Delivering the Quality plan to ensure high-quality distillates and by-product production

- Optimizing quality standards through manufacturing excellence and quality-driven business systems

- Maintaining accurate document control for the site

- Driving the quality engagement platform and a continuous improvement culture

- Building and leveraging relationships within Diageo supply sites and the broader NA business

- Ensuring project opportunities are aligned with the NA Quality Strategy

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Science, Engineering)

- 3+ years in Distillation, Brewing, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing Industry

- Shown leadership and employee engagement skills

- Project management skills

- HACCP supervisory/managerial level qualified

- ISO 9001 or ISO 22000 lead auditor qualified

- Experience working with suppliers and ICIX

- Harford Superuser

- Excellent knowledge of document control and Management of Change

- Excellent verbal and written skills

- Financial and budgeting experience

- Excellent problem-solving skills

Benefits:

- Competitive Rewards and Benefits package

- Flexibility to manage wellbeing and balance priorities

- Opportunity to contribute to a diverse and inclusive team

## Skills

### Required
- HACCP
- ISO 9001
- ISO 22000
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Employee Engagement
- Document Control
- Management of Change
- Financial Management
- Problem-Solving

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