Liquid Production & Packaging Technician

Join a High-Performing Liquid Production and Packaging Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and hands-on production environment, playing a key role in all aspects of liquid production whilst supporting packaging and wider site operations.

Working closely with the Production Management Team, you'll be involved in blending, vatting, reductions, R&D and recipe sign-off, as well as supporting packaging requirements when needed. You'll gain exposure to every stage of the production process and develop a deep understanding of how a vertically integrated drinks business operates.

We're looking for someone who is curious, proactive and eager to learn; someone who enjoys solving problems, takes pride in their work and wants to contribute to a team that's constantly looking to improve.

About the Role

In a nutshell, you'll assist the Production Management Team in all aspects of the site. Your primary focus will be liquid production, including blending, vatting, reductions, R&D and recipe sign-off, but you'll also assist with general packaging requirements.

You'll contribute to ensuring the best possible environment is maintained for the team, visitors and their activities.

You'll assist in the completion of liquid production and packaging to meet demand and forecast requirements whilst ensuring quality control, KPIs and the legalities we face when working with alcohol (amongst other things) are maintained as a minimum and surpassed wherever possible.

You'll report into the Liquid Production Supervisor. Whilst you'll be working closely alongside your line manager, we'll expect you to utilise your initiative and work autonomously wherever possible.

In Your First 30 Days

You'll go on a crash course to understand one of the most complex vertically integrated businesses around. You'll get your hands dirty in supporting departments, working alongside your new colleagues in every area to gain the necessary grassroots knowledge to help you become a huge success.

In Your First 60 Days

You'll be striving to understand the core of our business, how it runs, what it takes for it to continue to be successful and how you can contribute to that success.

In Your First 90 Days

You'll start to deliver your learnings back to the business. You'll have a great understanding of the inner workings of your departments, the journey Atom is on and how you can help us become more successful.

You'll begin a journey of continual improvement whilst developing fantastic relationships, understanding requirements and building a mental strategy for how you're going to help drive your departments forward.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities for Production (Liquid & Packaging) and Warehousing

• QC & compliance adherence
• KPI efficiencies
• Health & Safety
• Security
• Waste disposal (not the Tony Soprano sort, the real sort)
• Assisting with Production Schedule, Packaging Schedule and Demand Planning
• Communication to stakeholders and efficiencies reporting
• Assisting with building maintenance, cleaning, staff wellbeing, staff training and development
• Cask handling and regauging
• Liquid transfers, i.e. from cask to IBC
• Preparing liquid for bottling and third-party customers

About You

You want to be part of a cutting-edge, high-performing production site; an all-star team that can do what others can't. Coaching, empowering and creating an inclusive, productive and results-oriented environment.

You are highly intelligent, tenacious and motivated. You are utterly intolerant of corporate cliché and mediocrity.

You have a positive can-do attitude, learn fast and relish a challenge. You question things and need to understand them on a deep level. You get out of bed each morning excited to get cracking.

You are exceptionally curious and creative. Solving hard problems is what gets you out of bed in the morning.

You love efficiency and hate waste in all its forms. You want to relentlessly automate and eliminate repetitive tasks.

You question everything and are obsessive about deeply understanding everything around you.

You are not a corporate robot. Drawing on experience is a must; copy-and-pasting like-for-like, out-of-date processes does not exist at Atom.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

Essential

• Ability to evaluate, offer suggestions and implement where necessary in conjunction with continual improvement schemes
• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety, product safety and machinery safety within a production and warehouse environment
• Good logical, analytical and lateral thinking skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to be clear and concise
• Good knowledge of IT, Microsoft Suite and SAP Business One
• Cask handling and vatting experience
• Good mathematics skills, with the ability to perform basic calculations and formulas
• Comfortable working in small teams and alone when necessary

Desirable

• Distilling (or equivalent) qualification
• Experience working within the drinks industry, ideally with knowledge of the company's own products and lines
• Experience supporting the implementation of health and safety initiatives
• Familiarity with alcohol duty, import and export
• HACCP Level 3
• IOSH Training
• DSEAR Training

Fixed-Term Contract until 29 January 2027, Full-Time

Current working pattern: 7.00am - 3.30pm, Mon-Fri.

Salary: £28,000 depending on experience