Shift Engineer
Help keep over 260 years of distilling heritage running at its best. Join our engineering team maintaining and improving the equipment behind some of the UK's most recognised spirits.
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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
As a Shift Engineer at G&J Distillers, you'll be more than just the person who fixes breakdowns. You'll play a vital role in keeping one of the UK's leading distilleries and bottling operations running safely, efficiently and reliably 24/7.
Working across our bottling lines, distillation processes, utilities and warehousing operations, no two shifts are the same. One day you could be fault-finding complex automation systems, the next improving equipment reliability, supporting major changeovers, or delivering engineering improvements that reduce downtime and boost performance.
This is a hands-on role where you'll have the freedom to use your skills, make decisions and take ownership. You'll join a close-knit engineering team that values practical problem solving, continuous improvement and teamwork. If you enjoy getting stuck into real engineering challenges and want to see the direct impact of your work on a world-class manufacturing site, this is the role for you.
A Flavour of the Business
At Quintessential Brands Group, we’re proud to continue the legacy of Thomas Dakin, the visionary who pioneered quality English gin in 1761. Today, our portfolio includes award-winning brands such as Greenall’s, Opihr, Thomas Dakin, and The Dubliner.
At our Warrington distillery, tradition meets innovation. It’s here that we bring our brands to life, and where you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the quality and consistency that make them loved worldwide.
The Perfect Serve - A Bit About You
You're a practical, apprenticeship-trained engineer who enjoys diagnosing faults, solving problems, and keeping production running. You thrive in a fast-paced FMCG environment, take pride in maintaining high engineering standards, and work collaboratively to improve reliability, safety, and performance across the site.
You will bring:
Recognised engineering apprenticeship (electrical or multi-skilled) with an NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, BTEC, or equivalent engineering qualification. HNC/HND, NVQ Level 4 and higher-level qualifications are desirable but not essential.
Demonstrable experience of electrical control systems, PLCs, automation, and fault finding within a manufacturing environment.
Demonstrable mechanical maintenance experience with excellent fault-finding and diagnostic skills across a range of manufacturing and process equipment, with the ability to carry out repairs safely and effectively to minimise downtime.
Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of OEE, 5S, Lean Manufacturing, TPM, and planned preventative maintenance (PPM).
Able to work independently, prioritise workload, and use their own initiative to resolve issues effectively.
Committed to continuously challenging existing practices and driving improvements in reliability, efficiency, and performance.
Willingness to support activities across all areas of the site as business needs require.
Maintains high standards of product safety, food safety, and personal safety, ensuring compliance with HSE, Environmental Health, HMRC, and all relevant legislative requirements.
The Essence of QB - The Benefits
We know our people are the most important ingredient in our success, so we offer a benefits package designed to support you:
Competitive salary with shift allowance:
+28% for 24/7 rotating shifts (AM, PM & Nights)
Company pension scheme
Annual bonus opportunity
Life assurance cover
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Discounts with high street and online retailers
Staff shop and product allowance
Private healthcare and wellbeing support
The Essence of QB
Joining QB means joining a business with a rich history and an exciting future. We’re bold, ambitious, and passionate about spirits, and we’re looking for people who want to be part of that journey. As a Shift Engineer, you’ll be right at the heart of it, helping us craft products enjoyed by consumers around the world.
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Locations
- G&J Distillers (Warrington)
- Monthly salary
- 53,351
- 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.