Quality Assurance Technician

Quality Assurance Technician

Fixed Term Contract - 8 Months

Runcorn

Shift - This role involves working a 42-hour week on a continental day/night shift pattern, which includes two weekend shifts per month. You’ll contracted to a suite of flexible shift patterns, and your working hours will adjust according to the pattern you’re assigned.

About the Function:

Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world.

With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships.

It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.

About The Role

• To provide quality control analysis within production teams to deliver production in line with agreed benchmark targets: Customer service, quality, safety, hygiene, cost, flexibility. Focusing on carrying out QC analysis, maintaining related equipment, auditing, monitoring and assessing adherence to quality standards

Organisational Context:

• Diageo’s vision creates a powerful mandate for a Continuous Improvement culture, which reinforces strong performance.
• Runcorn Packaging operates within a constantly evolving environment in terms of cost, volumes and performance.
• Significant change is required to deliver improved people performance and a Continuous Improvement culture. Clear achievements and budgeted performance will be set to deliver these goals.
• Runcorn Packaging is one of G&E RTD Supply’s eight sites employing 2,000 people in UK, Ireland and Italy.

Role Dimensions:

• The role is shift team quality analysts covering the small pack production operation from beer intake to finished goods loading
• Key relationships will be with Team Manager, production co-ordinators, shift operators, shift engineering team and compliance support team

Key Outputs:

• Routine calibration of instrumentation and random cleaning and maintenance carried out as required.
• Accurate results of ‘sophisticated’ analysis input into SAP and Harford on a timely basis.
• Stocks of laboratory chemicals and disposable/consumables, maintained.
• New methods set up and effective implementation ensured. Routine Process Control audits conducted to confirm compliance to QC plans.
• Information and records made available to support Problem Solving. Actively participate.
• 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

Skills/Knowledge:

Essential:

• 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
• Quality systems / HACCP / Food safety / ISO9001
• Knowledge of statistical process control
• Thorough and high attention to detail

Preferred:

• Auditing skills to carry out process control and due diligence audits
• NVQ level 2 Food and Drink

Experience

• 2 years experience working in a QA role in an FMCG environment
• Experience of working in an exciting quality & customer focused environment
• Experience of high-pressure situations, where decision making may be required with little supervision.

People Performance:

• Positive demeanor to own development

• Able to adapt when faced with new challenges

• Looks for opportunities to help others learn and develop Ideas:

• Pushes forward own ideas regarding improvement to current approaches

• Uses sound analytical decision making

• Develops understanding of own area and shows understanding of other parts of the business Values:

• Actions show evidence of an active interest in consumers, customers and brands

• Speaks up when others are acting inconsistently with Diageo values

• Is proud of what they and their team stand for and helps others to share this sense of pride

• Working with Us

• Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

• We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly driven Rewards and Benefits package.

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

Worker Type:

• Regular

Primary Location:

• Runcorn

Additional Locations:

Job Posting Start Date:

• 2026-10-27