Qc and Central Lab Manager

**Missions essentielles**:
As the Laboratory Manager EU, you are responsible for leading the Boortmalt EU laboratories (Antwerp, Herent and Nova Gradiska). By enabling effective quality control capabilities and generating accurate, timely and reliable results you make sure that the Antwerp and Herent labs are the reference within the industry. You develop the Antwerp lab as the research and development lab of Boortmalt, both for lab equipment and practices as for supporting the innovation department of Boortmalt.

You enable root cause determination for technical solutions, using your problem solving skills and help ensure lab practices are aligned with other global labs.

** Your main responsibilities include**:

- Embracing the safety culture in the regional lab organization, and making sure that each lab member understands and implements this.
- Providing direct leadership, role modelling, support and guidance, talent development to the laboratory team.
- Providing oversight that ensures the provision of cost efficient and reliable laboratory services. Deploy and validate “new” methods as needed.
- Making sure there is accurate and timely completion of laboratory analysis for all Boortmalt malting plants across Europe region
- Utilisation of Standard Laboratory Methods, or other industry recognized methods, across all labs.
- Overseeing the data management and reporting-out requirements to deliver to customer satisfaction
- Provide strong structured problem solving processes involving the lab team and other key stakeholders.
- Coordinate participation in laboratory proficiency testing schemes for all the malt labs.
- Manage the maintenance and repairs for analysis equipment and their accessories. This shall also include any requirements for the purchase, installation and maintenance of new instrumentation
- Direct communication with stakeholders in Operations, Commercial and Barley Supply chain
- Support the innovation department of Boortmalt
- Key contacts to external laboratories and involvement for customer/barley suppliers in case of lab analysis-related complaints
- Ensure implementation of the Boortmalt Good Laboratory Practice program and compliance of laboratories to Boortmalt EHS requirements
- Make Antwerp the research and development lab of Boortmalt, both for lab equipment and practices

**Master recherché**:
**Your profile**:

- Master degree, preferably in agricultural science, chemistry, engineering, food science or related discipline
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a senior laboratory role / quality control
- Minimum 3 years’ experience managing a medium to large sized team. Experience managing a team in multiple locations is a plus.
- Experience in identifying trends and problem solving with results
- Experience in the calibration, maintenance and troubleshooting with laboratory instruments
- Innovative mindset
- Preference for any certification/qualifications for Lean and/or problem solving skills

**Trésor des Masters of Malt**:
We offer an attractive salary and benefits package and as part of a global organization can offer career opportunities internationally. As Masters of Malt we want to be a great employer, focusing on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing. We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do.

“**Strive**” - our ambition is to be the best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve the highest level.

“**Care**” - our strength is magnificent when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. We encourage trust, respect and treat each other with respect. We believe that Diversity makes us stronger.

“**Inspire**” - We adopt a long-term orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and digitization, becoming praised Masters of Malt.

“**Explore**” - thinking out of the box and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like challenging the status quo to develop full potential.
- **L'entreprise**:
Présentation-BOORTMALT is a global malting company with a 3 million tonnes production capacity. The group is present on 5 continents with 27 malting plants. Boortmalt's expertise is widely acknowledged by brewers, distillers, and food industries, who rely on the supply of top-quality barley malts.
The Boortmalt Group is a fully owned subsidiary of the agricultural and agribusiness cooperative Axereal. Our relationship with Axereal, Europe's largest grain cooperative, ensures us access to high-quality barley year-round.