Quality Systems & Laboratory Manager
As Quality Systems & Laboratory Manager, you’ll play a critical role in protecting that legacy, ensuring our systems, standards, and teams deliver excellence in every bottle.
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 RTD cocktails.
A Taste of The Job
As our Quality Systems and Laboratory Manager, you’ll take full ownership of the site's Quality Management System and Quality Laboratory at our Warrington manufacturing site. This is a pivotal role responsible for ensuring we meet and exceed BRC, legal, customer, and accreditation standards, safeguarding the integrity of our award-winning spirits at every stage of production.
Reporting to the Quality Manager, you’ll combine strategic systems leadership with hands-on laboratory oversight. From chairing HACCP meetings and managing audit readiness to leading complaint investigations and calibration programmes, you’ll drive food safety excellence, build compliance confidence, and drive continuous improvement across the site.
This is a role for someone who thrives on accountability, precision, and influence, ensuring quality isn’t just maintained, but continually strengthened.
Your Impact Will Include
Quality Systems & Compliance
Own and manage the site QMS and document control systems in line with BRCGS and customer standards.
Lead HACCP, TACCP and VACCP programmes, chairing the HACCP team.
Act as site lead for external audits, retailers, and certification bodies, ensuring full audit readiness at all times.
Manage the internal audit programme and drive corrective actions to closure.
Oversee traceability exercises and mock recalls.
Develop and maintain all technical documentation required for compliance.
Laboratory & Operational Quality
Lead and manage the Quality Laboratory, resources, and equipment.
Ensure calibration and verification of laboratory and critical production instruments.
Manage QA budget for laboratory consumables and raise POs as required.
Act as site lead, ensuring accreditation standards are maintained.
Provide technical guidance and training to factory teams.
Incident, NCR & Complaint Management
Lead customer complaint investigations and root cause analysis.
Manage NCR, CAPA and Quality Incident systems with full trending and reporting.
Analyse quality data to identify patterns, drive KPIs, and support continuous improvement.
People & Leadership
Train, coach, and mentor laboratory and QA team members.
Develop a flexible, multi-skilled quality team.
Champion a proactive food safety and quality culture across production and engineering.
Continuous Improvement & Governance
Support GMP, hygiene and factory improvement initiatives.
Support continuous improvement through data analysis and KPI reporting.
Contribute to management reviews and strategic business planning.
Participate in taste panels and factory improvement initiatives.
A Flavour of the Business
At Quintessential Brands, we’re a unique blend, a growing global spirits business with over 250 years of distilling heritage. From Bloom and Opihr to Greenall’s and The Dubliner, our brands are enjoyed around the world.
We operate in a lean, agile way, constantly refining our processes as we expand. Joining QB, as we’re known to our friends, means playing a visible, influential role in shaping operational excellence as we scale. Quality underpins everything we do, and this role sits at the centre of that commitment.
The Perfect Serve - A Bit About You
You’re a confident quality leader with strong systems expertise and the ability to influence across departments. You combine technical precision with commercial awareness and enjoy working in a fast-paced FMCG environment where standards are high and expectations are clear.
You will bring:
Strong working knowledge of QMS, BRCGS, ISO standards, HACCP, TACCP and VACCP.
Experience leading internal audits and managing accreditation standards.
Expertise in document control systems and data analysis.
Experience managing quality incidents, complaints, NCRs and CAPA processes.
The ability to coach and develop teams while maintaining accountability.
Confidence liaising with auditors, customers, suppliers and senior management.
A proactive mindset focused on prevention, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
The Essence of QB - The Benefits
We know our people are our most important ingredient. That’s why we offer:
Company pension scheme
Life assurance
Company bonus scheme
25 days holiday
Discounts with high street and online retailers
Staff shop
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Locations
- G&J Distillers (Warrington)
- Yearly salary
- £35,000 - £40,000
- 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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