Polyvalent Chemist at BGI Ethiopia

Polyvalent Chemist

Employer: BGI Ethiopia

Employment: Full-Time | Permanent

Place of Work: Kombolcha - Ethiopia

Posted date: 3 weeks ago

Deadline: Submission date is over

Job Summary

Assure physico-chemical laboratory analysis and result from raw materials to final product, and wastewater is compliant with company’s standard and national regulations by performing generic, both planned and unplanned, physico- chemical analysis, inspections and maintains quality related records according to control plans, through making-up of cleaning chemicals/reagents, handling of laboratory equipment and maintaining good housekeeping and record keeping of analytical results and chemical consumptions.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Follow Quality Assurance standards and specifications, and Conduct Physico - chemical analysis of raw material, intermediate products, and final products and byproducts from brew house, fermentation, and maturation beer, filtered beer, final products, waste treatment samples. And record results properly on established applications.
• Perform all quality activities are conducted in alignment with safety, quality, and sustainability initiatives, using PPE and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP).
• Conduct Physico-chemical and some microbiological test samples from beer processing, general utilities like CO2 purity, treated water sample, Boiler water samples, cooling glycol concentration, chlorine residue test, and etc.
• Perform calibration schedule of instruments and devices of both inline and laboratory equipment’s are according to requirements
• Do organoleptic changes detection for the raw materials, intermediate and finished products is within the typical requirements in every process steps
• Make appropriate registration of stock usage of both chemical and materials movement
• Perform analysis of product recall and market complaint samples
• Communicate deviations on test results timely and impose process stoppage when necessary for further investigations and decisions
• Take the shift and daily control plans in to account and, prepare and make available necessary reagents and materials and engage on shifts assigned duties in cooperation with colleagues.
• Commit for their own professional development in the respective discipline’s state of the art technological knowledge
• Apply safety measures are as required and perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the line manager

Education

• The position requires a minimum of bachelor’s degree in applied chemistry/applied biology/chemical engineering/industrial chemistry or food science or microbiology or relevant fields

Experience

• 4 years’ minimum experience in food and drinks industry