Quality Assurance Technician

Quality Assurance Technician

Runcorn, GUINNESS Beer Packaging Site

Full-time - Permanent

Closing date: 24th October 2025

Salary: £55,137.11 including shift allowance plus share plans, competitive pension, and other additional benefits.

Join our Beer Manufacturing Team

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo's 27,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It's an intricate and sophisticated operation that's the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

We operate Guinness packaging facilities at Marshalls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Runcorn, in North West England, producing canned, bottled and kegged product for Ireland, UK and export markets. Significant investment is underway at both of these locations.

This role is site based at Runcorn which is an 18 Acre site running a 24/7 Operation with 4 rotational crews. It has 2 Bottling, 2 Canning lines and 1 Kegging production line. There are 90+ SKUs with 16 different Beer/Liquid types covering producing on average 23million cases of product per annum

About the role

As a QA Technician, you'll drive quality control efforts within production teams to consistently meet or exceed KPI targets. You'll focus on carrying out QC analysis, maintaining related equipment, auditing, monitoring and assessing adherence to quality.

Key Accountabilities:

• Routine calibration of instrumentation and random cleaning and maintenance carried out as required.
• Accurate results of ‘complex' analysis input into SAP and Harford on a timely basis.
• Stocks of laboratory chemicals and disposable/consumables, maintained.
• Routine Process Control audits conducted to confirm compliance to QC plans.
• Information and records made available to support problem solving.
• Appropriate responses made to out of spec results for components and packaged beer.
• Faults and fault trends recognised at team meetings and solutions identified
• Completion of quality audits

About you

We're looking for someone who can work well within a team as well as the ability to make effective decisions and thrive in situations where they can solve problems.

You'll have excellent communication skills and be able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities. You'll have the drive to make a positive difference to manufacturing excellence.

In addition, you'll have:

• An appropriate science qualification to a minimum HNC standard
• Strong analytical techniques
• Understanding of information systems, ideally SAP
• Basic understanding of instrumentation: laboratory and on-line inspection
• Knowledge of quality systems / HACCP / Food safety / ISO9001
• Knowledge of statistical process control
• Thorough and high attention to detail

An NVQ Level 2 Food and Drink is preferred but not essential.

Working with us

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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Client-provided location(s): Runcorn, United Kingdom

Job ID: Diageo-JR1118862

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-17T19:00:36