Engineer
At Quintessential Brands Group, we are proud to continue the legacy of Thomas Dakin, the visionary who pioneered quality English gin in 1761. Today, our award-winning portfolio spans iconic names like Greenall’s, Opihr, Thomas Dakin and The Dubliner.
Now, G&J Distillers - our flagship distillery in Warrington - is looking for a Shift Engineer to help keep our bottling operations running smoothly around the clock.
Shift Allowances:
+28% for 24/7 rotating shifts (AM, PM & Nights)
+15% for 2-shift pattern (AM & PM)
A Taste of The Job
You’ll be part of a small but mighty team of Engineers, reporting to the Maintenance Manager and playing a vital role in both planned and reactive maintenance. You’ll help reduce downtime and maximise equipment uptime across our fast-paced bottling, distillery, and warehousing operations.
From machine changeovers to troubleshooting automation systems, you’ll be at the heart of our production—keeping things flowing, fixing problems fast, and ensuring we deliver every bottle to the highest standard.
Key Ingredients We’re Looking For
- A qualified Multi-Skilled Engineer (NVQ Level 4 / HNC / Recognised Apprenticeship)
- Proven experience with electrical control systems, PLCs, and automation
- Experience in FMCG, bottling, or canning is desirable but not essential
- Comfortable with CMMS systems and strong fault-finding techniques
- A team player with initiative, problem-solving skills, and a “get stuck in” mindset
- Able to operate safely and efficiently in a high-paced production environment
The Essence of QB - The Benefits
- Company pension
- Shift allowance
- Life Assurance
- Bonus
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Discounts with high street and online retailers
- Staff Shop
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Locations
- G&J Distillers (Warrington)
- Yearly salary
- £40,565.6
- 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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