Quality Technician

職位介紹

The Opportunity

Join our team in Dufftown as a Quality Technician and play a key role in ensuring our world-class brands meet the highest standards of quality, food safety, and regulatory compliance. Working closely with production teams, you'll help drive continuous improvement and maintain excellence throughout our packaging operations.

主要職責

What you’ll be doing

• 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.
• Support New Product Development activities and participate in bottling line trials.
• 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.

理想候选人

About You

• A good understanding of quality management systems and standards (e.g. ISO 9001, IQMS, IFS or similar).
• Competent in Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience within a manufacturing, food and drink, FMCG, 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.
• Previous experience in a quality assurance, quality control, or quality technician role would be advantageous.

If you have a passion for quality, attention to detail, and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you. Your quality mindset could be the perfect match for our world-class brands.

我们可以提供你?

• 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.

有关格兰父子公司

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. 

We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.

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