Tank Farm / Stillhouse Operative
As a Tank Farm / Stillhouse Operative, you’ll play an important role in helping us craft and deliver products to the highest standards every day.
A Taste of the Job
As a Tank Farm / Stillhouse Operative at our Warrington site, you’ll play a key role in helping produce the award-winning spirits behind brands such as Bloom, Opihr and Greenall’s.
Reporting to the Stillhouse Team Leader and Liquid Process Manager, you’ll support the day-to-day running of our Tank Farm and Stillhouse operations, ensuring liquid production and supply run smoothly, safely, and efficiently. Working to BOM specifications, you’ll operate process and mechanical handling equipment while maintaining the highest standards of safety, hygiene, and quality.
This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced manufacturing environment where teamwork, reliability, and attention to detail are essential. You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute ideas for continuous improvement and support projects that help shape the future of our operations.
Your Impact Will Include:
Production & Operations
Operate Tank Farm and Stillhouse equipment in line with production requirements and BOM specifications.
Support production lines with a liquid supply to ensure operational continuity.
Operate process equipment and mechanical handling equipment safely and efficiently.
Maintain product quality and hygiene standards across the production environment.
Health, Safety & Quality
Follow all Health & Safety procedures and site standards.
Ensure compliance with hygiene policies and quality standards.
Maintain a clean, safe, and organised working environment.
Continuous Improvement
Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, processes, and ways of working.
Participate in improvement projects across the factory and production areas.
A Flavour of the Business
At Quintessential Brands, we’re a unique blend, a growing global spirits business with over 260 years of distilling heritage. Our award-winning portfolio includes iconic brands enjoyed by consumers worldwide.
We operate in a lean, agile way where teamwork, adaptability, and a hands-on attitude are valued. Joining QB, as we’re known to our friends, means rolling up your sleeves, getting involved, and helping us continue to grow and innovate.
The Perfect Serve – A Bit About You
You’re practical, reliable, and enjoy working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. You take pride in doing things safely and to a high standard, and you’re happy working collaboratively as part of a production team.
You will bring:
Experience working within a manufacturing environment, ideally food & beverage or FMCG.
Strong communication and teamwork skills.
A safety-first mindset and attention to detail.
Flexibility to work shifts, including potential night shifts.
FLT experience is advantageous, although training can be provided.
A proactive, can-do attitude and willingness to support operational improvements.
The Garnish – Benefits that come with the role
We know our people are the most important ingredient in our success. That’s why we offer:
Company pension scheme
Health insurance
Annual bonus opportunity
Staff shop and product discounts
Discounts with high street and online retailers
Shift allowance
The Essence of QB
At Quintessential Brands Group, we proudly continue the legacy of Thomas Dakin, who pioneered quality English gin in 1761. Today, we combine centuries of distilling heritage with modern innovation to create award-winning spirits enjoyed globally.
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Locations
- G&J Distillers (Warrington)
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.