Vacancy title:
Brewery Microbiologist and Food Safety Specialist

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Manufacturing, Category: Healthcare]

Jobs at:
Nile Breweries Limited (NBL)

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, August 1 2025

Duty Station:
Uganda | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 25 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

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 Roles 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 qualitycompliance and management on site and reduce reputational risks for the site
• Achieve VPO targets and Quality KPI and PI targets for the site

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

Minimum Requirements:

• 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

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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