Manufacturing Team Leader - Bottling
Lead the line at G&J Distillers! Drive performance, safety, and quality in a fast-paced bottling environment with real impact, growth opportunities, and a legacy brand behind you. Apply now!
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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, The Dubliner, and Chamère, our exciting new venture in the world of RTD cocktails.
A Taste of The Job
Are you ready to lead from the front and ensure our award-winning spirits are bottled with precision, pride, and performance?
As our Team Leader (Bottling), you'll be the driving force behind a high-performing production line – keeping people safe, processes efficient, and products flowing. Based at our Warrington site, you'll work closely with our Bottling Manager and cross-functional teams to deliver daily output targets while upholding our industry-leading quality and safety standards.
This is a hands-on, fast-paced role where you'll manage line performance, support your team, and ensure bottling runs like clockwork from the first pour to the final pallet.
Ready to raise the bar? Your Impact Will Include:
- Line Leadership – Oversee bottling line operations to ensure your team meets safety, quality, and production KPIs.
- Performance Monitoring – Track hourly and daily metrics, lead Short Interval Control (SIC) meetings, and keep the production board up to date.
- Issue Resolution – Escalate production issues early, support root cause analysis, and ensure corrective actions are implemented and closed.
- Compliance Champion – Ensure H&S, hygiene, and quality standards are consistently met, with accurate documentation to support them.
- Resource Management – Plan and allocate workforce efficiently, manage holiday/sickness cover, and ensure smooth shift transitions.
- Team Development – Support training and development, ensure SOP sign-offs, and complete appraisals and return-to-work processes.
- Continuous Improvement – Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, and Planning teams to ensure the line runs smoothly and efficiently.
- System Savvy – Confidently operate NAV, the Production Database, Kronos, and Excel to keep everything on track.
A Flavour of the Business
At Quintessential Brands, home of G&J Distillers, we're proud to carry forward a legacy that began in 1761 with Thomas Dakin. From the iconic Greenall's Gin to innovative Ready-to-Drink offerings under Chamère, we produce world-class spirits that are enjoyed globally.
Our Warrington site is the beating heart of this legacy, blending tradition with modern manufacturing excellence. As we continue to invest in people, processes, and technology, this role plays a crucial part in driving our success forward.
The Perfect Serve - A Bit About You
You're a natural leader who thrives in a dynamic production environment. You care about quality, you're laser-focused on safety, and you know how to get the best out of your team. You remain calm under pressure, bringing structure, accountability, and energy to everything you do.
You'll likely bring:
- Previous experience in a team leadership or supervisory role (manufacturing/FMCG preferred).
- Strong understanding of H&S, GMP, and quality procedures.
- The ability to motivate and manage a production team to hit KPIs.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally.
- Confidence using systems such as NAV, Kronos, Production Databases, and Excel.
- A solution-focused mindset and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Flexibility and resilience to adapt to changing plans and production demands.
The Essence of QB - The Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Pension scheme & life assurance
- Product discounts and employee recognition programmes
- On-site parking
- Full training and development support, with the opportunity to grow in a global business
If you're ready to lead with purpose, keep performance flowing, and be part of a proud distilling heritage – we want to hear from you.
Apply now and bring your leadership to life at G&J Distillers, part of the Quintessential Brands family.
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Role
- Bottling Operator
- Locations
- G&J Distillers (Warrington)
- 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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