Quality Technician

Job Introduction

Join our team in Bellshill as a Quality Technician, where you’ll play a key role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance.

Main Responsibility

• Carry out in-process quality checks, incoming material evaluations, and finished product inspections to support packaging operations, ensuring all checks and analysis are accurately documented.
• Ensure non-conforming products are appropriately controlled in line with documented processes to prevent release to customers.
• Conduct audits to assess compliance with quality standards, identifying deviations and supporting continuous improvement activities within packaging operations.
• Perform quality analysis on products and materials, reporting findings and contributing to data-driven decision-making.
• Investigate quality complaints and issues, providing clear recommendations to support corrective and preventative actions.
• Complete line audits relating to glass breakage, recording findings and communicating outcomes effectively with operators and management.
• Support investigations into product and process non-conformances, raising and managing NCRs through systems such as IQMS or IFS.
• Monitor and collate quality performance data, sharing insights with line teams and actively contributing to improvement initiatives.
• Maintain and support quality standards, control plans, SOPs, and documentation, ensuring alignment with WGW governance and IQMS requirements.
• Promote a strong quality culture within the bottling hall, providing guidance and support to operators and team leaders on product quality matters.
• Work collaboratively across teams, applying learning from training and development activities to continuously improve performance.
• Manage product sampling activities across WGS bottling sites in line with established schedules and standards, taking corrective action where required.
• Maintain and reconcile sample stock levels, using systems such as LIMS to ensure samples are effectively controlled and available.

Our Ideal Candidate

• A strong understanding of quality systems and standards (e.g. ISO, IQMS)
• Experience in a manufacturing or packaging environment is highly desirable. 
• Excellent attention to detail and a proactive approach to problem-solving. 
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams. 
• A commitment to continuous improvement and maintaining high workplace standards.

Be part of something legendary. Your quality mindset could be the perfect match for our world class brands.

Early Shift:

Monday to Thursday: 6:00am – 2:00pm

Friday: 6:00am – 12:00pm

Backshift:

Monday to Thursday: 2:00pm – 10:00pm

Friday: 10:00am – 4:00pm

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.