Sr. Drinks Analyst

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Job description

Apex has an exciting direct hire opportunity for a Sr. Beverage Analyst in the Food & Beverage industry in the Greater Philadelphia Region! This is a great opportunity for someone with 1- 2 years of any industry lab experience who wants to take the next step into leadership in a global beverage company!

Sr. Analyst

The purpose of this role is to perform the analysis requested for packaging, ingredients, finished goods to ensure product quality, NSV growth, cost savings, and delivery of new product launches meets the consumer requirements and reliability in the market. The criticality of this role is to maintain the accuracy and traceability of results so that the quality of analysis is sustained within the desired timeframe.

Responsibilities:

• Manage test sample collection, logging, and storage of products, cross referencing
• product labelling with lab work request and notifying Product Quality Team Leader if there are inconsistencies
• Prepare test samples for analytical testing
• Perform and document ingredient, packaging, brewer, verification, and calibration testing
• Maintain laboratory equipment in prime operating condition
• Perform analysis according to required Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
• Collect, collate, and disseminate analytical data, providing an analytical report for the approval of Product Quality Team Leader
• Deliver analysis and reports for Special Projects from validation to conformance
• verification stage of project, link results of each project stage via report summaries
• Highlight out of specification or data irregularities to Product Quality Team Leader
• Highlight variances between the practical applications of any SOP's to the accepted controlled document version
• Develop and train Drinks Analysts on SOPs
• Support external laboratory testing such as sample and results management
• Prioritize testing and the schedule of fellow laboratory employees to ensure results meet deadlines
• Order consumables for the laboratory
• Identify, recommend, and implement improvements to the testing protocols and ways of working
• Follow the calibration schedule for laboratory equipment
• Adhere to all safety procedures required
• Maintain clean desk policy in all laboratory areas
• Maintain laboratory notebooks following documented laboratory standards

Education & Professional Qualification

• Degree in a science-based course or two years equivalent laboratory experience.

Knowledge/Experience

• Experienced with laboratory techniques and equipment
• Strong attention to detail & scientific background
• Data entry and computer literacy (Microsoft Office)
• Be able to work under pressure and self-motivating
• Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred requirement:

• Skilled at technical report writing
• Experience with statistical software (such as Excel or Minitab)
• Knowledge of machine servicing is an asset
• Knowledge of software validation is an asset

Please send resumes to for Immediate Consideration!

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