Quality Assurance Technician

Quality Assurance Technician

Guinness Packaging Site

Marshalls Road, Belfast

Permanent Contract

Closing date 10/03/2025

We are delighted to share that we are looking for aQuality Assurance Technician to join our team at our Marshalls Road site in Belfast!

About Us

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company known for our wonderful collection of iconic brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness.

At Diageo, we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of our world leading products every year with over 200 brands in 180 countries. Our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge, and skills. Join us to collaborate, explore, and innovate as you build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

About the Role

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Technician to join our team at the Guinness Packaging site in Belfast.

At Diageo Marshalls Road, Belfast, our Quality Assurance team plays a vital role in ensuring excellence across our production operations. We provide experienced analytical support and technical guidance in Quality, Food Safety, and Quality Management Systems. Our mission is to uphold the highest standards, ensuring every packaged product meets statutory requirements and market specifications. As part of our team, you'll contribute to driving continuous improvement and delivering Diageo's strategic vision for quality and innovation.

As part of the shift quality team, you will work closely with other teams such as the Team Manager, production coordinators, operators, engineers, and compliance teams. Responsibilities include conducting quality analysis, calibrating equipment, auditing processes, and ensuring adherence to safety, hygiene, and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work within the shift team, following a continental shift pattern and providing holiday cover.

• Conduct analytical and microbiological sampling as per the Quality Sampling Plan.

• Ensure accurate and efficient sampling in the packaging environment.

• Analyse QA and production data, address quality issues, and provide feedback.

• Monitor, validate, and troubleshoot quality instrumentation.

• Support the site's Quality Management Systems.

• Act as the key contact for quality-related matters during shifts.

• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.

• Work reverse days as scheduled to meet contractual hours and support projects.

Health and safety compliance is key, and you'll be at the forefront of making sure this is supervised alongside ensuring both site and personal KPI's are achieved.

About You

This role offers an opportunity to contribute to the highest quality standards within our packaging operations. We are looking for a diligent professional with a strong commitment to quality and compliance in a fast-paced production environment.

Skills and proficiency are things that matter to Diageo, and so we'd love to hear from candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and experience who are passionate about transferring those skills and experience into a quality environment.

Working with us

As one of the world's leading alcoholic beverage companies, we pride ourselves on providing our employees with a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

• Base salary + substantial shift allowance

• End of year annual bonus (dependent on performance)

• 6 months, fully paid, family leave for ALL parents - regardless of gender

• Contributary pension scheme

• Product allowance

• Free onsite parking with electrical charging, ensuring that your commute is hassle-free

• Opt-in private medical care for you and your family

• Share programmes and other voluntary benefits

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.

Join us, and you will be part of an organisation that embraces diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you will be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You will be part of - and help build - an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. And you will help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.

We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive culture, you will have the backing you need to test innovative ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let us unlock a brighter, more exciting future together.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world's best people. We are looking for people with curiosity, creativity, boldness, and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.]]>