Laboratory Technician
Join First Ireland Spirits as a Laboratory Technician! Ensure every liqueur meets our world-class standards through testing, analysis, and teamwork in a passionate, quality-driven environment.
Quintessential Brands Group, the award-winning company behind iconic Irish Creams such as Feeney's, O'Mara's, and O'Casey's, is proud to uphold a legacy of crafting exceptional liqueurs. We now have an exciting opportunity to join our First Ireland Spirits team.
A Taste For The Job
As our Laboratory Technician at First Ireland Spirits, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring the exceptional quality of our award-winning liqueurs. Working at the heart of production, you'll conduct routine testing and analysis on ingredients and finished products, ensuring every bottle meets the high standards our brands are known for.
From chemical testing to sensory evaluation, you'll help maintain product consistency, support the production team with regular quality checks, and contribute to continuous improvement projects that enhance our processes and safeguard our reputation for excellence.
Your Impact Will Include
Product Testing – Conduct chemical analyses on in-process and finished products, including tests for alcohol, fat (Gerber), particle size, viscosity, pH, and specific gravity.
Quality Control – Perform organoleptic evaluations, hot spin and shelf-life testing, and bottle pour assessments.
Ingredient Verification – Test incoming raw materials to ensure all ingredients meet quality standards before use.
Equipment Care – Maintain and calibrate laboratory instruments to ensure accuracy, cleanliness, and readiness.
Collaboration – Partner with production and quality teams to resolve issues and maintain best practices.
Continuous Improvement – Participate in projects that refine processes and enhance quality systems throughout the production process.
A Flavour Of The Business
At Quintessential Brands Group, we proudly continue a legacy of craftsmanship and innovation dating back to 1761. From our flagship distillery in Warrington to our First Ireland Spirits site, we create award-winning products enjoyed by consumers around the world.
At First Ireland Spirits, we blend traditional techniques with modern expertise to produce some of the finest Irish cream liqueurs and spirits on the market. Joining our team means becoming part of a close-knit, passionate group of people who take pride in every bottle we make.
The Perfect Serve - A Bit About You
You're organised, analytical, and meticulous, someone who takes pride in getting the details right. You thrive in a fast-paced production environment and enjoy working collaboratively to maintain the highest levels of quality and consistency. You will be joining a supportive environment, which could be ideal for a graduate looking to gain experience.
You will bring:
A diploma or degree in Food Science or a related field.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and general computer systems.
Good basic maths skills - we'll be teaching you how to do lots of calculations
Strong communication and teamwork skills.
Excellent attention to detail and organisation, with the ability to work to demanding production schedules.
A proactive, can-do attitude and the confidence to make sound decisions or escalate when necessary.
The Garnish - The Benefits
Competitive company pension scheme to help you plan for the future.
Comprehensive life assurance for peace of mind.
Exclusive discounts with high street and online retailers.
The chance to be part of a small, passionate team at First Ireland Spirits, where you will receive excellent training, gain broad experience and enjoy work that genuinely makes a difference.
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Locations
- First Ireland Spirits (Abbeyleix)
- Employment type
- Full-time
Our Culture - The Essence of Quintessential Brands
We're an 'all hands on deck' kind of place where you'll have the opportunity to get involved in end to end projects, implement systems and process. We're fast, agile and entrepreneurial but, most importantly, our people are at the heart of what we do.
While we do work hard, we do it with a sense of fun, pride and passion that you won't find anywhere else.
Are you never shaken and very rarely stirred? More Cosmopolitan than Old Fashioned? Approach everything you do with a dash of creativity and a squeeze of positivity? Then we need you!
About Quintessential Brands Group
Established in 2011, Quintessential Brands Group is one of the most successful spirits companies to emerge from the UK in the last decade. The company offers a complete range of services and products to its customers across the world; producing and distributing some of the world's most-loved spirits brands, including Greenall's, the Original London Dry Gin, Opihr Spiced Gin and BLOOM Gin, as well as developing and producing some of the most commercially successful retailer brands of recent years for trade customers, and co-packing for some of the world’s most well-known spirits brands.
Recognised by the industry as International Spirits Challenge Gin Distiller of the Year five times in the last six years, Quintessential Brands is renowned for its unrivalled gin distilling capabilities heritage dating back to 1761 and is emerging as one of the most dynamic new entrants in the Irish whiskey market with the Dublin Liberties Distillery. With world-class product development and manufacturing at four world-class production sites across Europe and an award-winning premium brand portfolio comprised of English Gins, Irish Whiskeys, Irish Creams and Liqueurs, Quintessential Brands is committed to being the indispensable spirits partner of choice to its customers across the world, with customers and insights at the heart of everything we do.
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