Shift Engineer
Keep our world-class spirits flowing! Join QB Warrington as a Shift Engineer, tackling maintenance & troubleshooting to maximise uptime and quality across our fast-paced operations.
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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 in Warrington, our flagship distillery and bottling site, you’ll be part of a small but mighty team keeping operations running smoothly around the clock. Reporting to the site engineering manager, you’ll play a key role in planned and reactive maintenance, ensuring our fast-paced bottling, distillery, and warehousing operations perform at their best.
From machine changeovers to troubleshooting automation systems, you’ll be at the heart of production, reducing downtime, maximising uptime, and making sure every bottle leaves our site to the highest standard. This is a hands-on role where your technical expertise and problem-solving mindset will make a real impact every single shift.
Your impact will include
Maintenance Excellence – Perform both planned and reactive maintenance on bottling, distillery, and warehousing equipment.
Troubleshooting – Use strong fault-finding skills to diagnose and resolve issues quickly.
Technical Expertise – Work with electrical control systems, PLCs, and automation to keep operations running smoothly.
Changeovers & Upgrades – Support product changeovers and improvement projects to boost efficiency.
Collaboration – Partner with colleagues across production to minimise downtime and keep lines running.
Safety First – Operate with a strong commitment to health & safety at all times.
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 multi-skilled engineer with a hands-on approach, a sharp eye for problem-solving, and a proactive mindset. You enjoy the buzz of FMCG production, thrive under pressure, and work best as part of a close-knit team.
You will bring:
NVQ Level 4 / HNC / recognised apprenticeship in a relevant engineering discipline.
Proven experience with electrical control systems, PLCs, and automation.
Background in FMCG, bottling, or canning (desirable but not essential).
Familiarity with CMMS systems and strong fault-finding skills.
A collaborative, can-do attitude and the initiative to get stuck in.
A strong commitment to working safely and efficiently in a high-paced environment.
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)
+15% for 2-shift pattern (AM & PM)
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
- 40,565 - 51,900
- 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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