Plant Quality and Food Safety Technician

At Nigerian Bottling Company, we're looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Plant Quality & Food Safety Technician to join our Quality & Sustainability Team.

Are you passionate about quality assurance, food safety, laboratory operations, and ensuring products consistently meet the highest standards?

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in protecting our brands by supporting product quality, food safety compliance, laboratory excellence, and continuous improvement within a world-class manufacturing environment.

What You'll Do

• Perform beverage quality tests including brix, carbonation, taste, appearance, date code, torque, fill height, net content, and other quality parameters in line with company standards and testing frequencies

• Ensure all bottling equipment is inspected before and during production and escalate any issues that may impact product quality or food safety

• Investigate out-of-specification results and support the implementation of corrective actions

• Monitor and validate laboratory and production equipment performance, including ASEBI systems

• Monitor Critical Control Points (CCPs) and Operational Prerequisite Programs (OPRPs) and escalate deviations promptly

• Support initiatives aimed at reducing product loss and improving operational efficiency

• Ensure compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), food safety, environmental, health and safety standards

• Maintain laboratory reagents, ensuring they are available, valid, properly labelled, and fit for use

• Support raw material and packaging quality management processes across the plant

• Partner with Production, Engineering, and Quality teams to maintain world-class product standards

What We're Looking For

• HND or B.Sc. in Applied Sciences or a related discipline

• Minimum of 6 months' experience within a food or beverage manufacturing environment

• Strong understanding of quality assurance and food safety principles

• Technical dexterity and laboratory operations experience

• Computer literacy and ability to work with laboratory systems and equipment

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Attention to detail and good organizational skills

• Problem-solving ability and experience managing quality-related issues

• Ability to work independently and within a team environment

• Ability to work a 3-shift rotational pattern

If you're passionate about quality, food safety, laboratory excellence, and delivering products that meet the highest standards, we'd love to hear from you.