Liquid Production & Packaging Technician

About the role 

In a nut-shell, you’ll assist the Production Managerial Team in all aspects of the site. Primarily liquid production (blending, vatting ,reductions R&D & recipe sign off) but you’ll also assist in general packaging requirements. You’ll contribute in ensuring the best suitable environment is attained for the teams, visitors and their activities. 

You’ll assist in the completion of liquid production & packaging to meet demand & forecast whilst ensuring quality control, KPI’s and the legalities we face when working with alcohol (amongst other things!) are maintained at the very minimum and surpassed wherever possible, 

You’ll report into the Senior Liquid Production Technician, although you’ll be working alongside your line manager, we’ll expect you to utilise your initiative and work autonomously where ever 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 be getting your hands dirty in your 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 help with that success.

In your first 90 days you will start to deliver your learnings back to the business. You’ll have a great understanding of the inner workings of your departments and the journey Atom is on and how you can help us be more successful. You’ll start on a journey of continual improvement whilst developing fantastic relationships, understanding requirements and building a mental strategy for how you are going to drive your departments forward.

Day to day responsibilities for Production (Liquid & Packaging) & 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, ie 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 & results orientated environment
• You are highly intelligent, tenacious and motivated. You are utterly intolerant of corporate cliché and mediocrity.
• You have a positive can-do attitude, you 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 process does not exist at Atom

Experience, skills and qualifications 

• Ability to evaluate, offer suggestions and implement were necessary in conjunction with continual improvement schemes.
• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety,product safety & machinery safety - in a production & 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.
• Distilling (or equivalent) qualification 
• Cask handling, vatting experience
• Good mathematics, can perform basic calculations and formulas
• Comfortable working in small teams and alone when necessary

Desirable

• Experience of working in the drinks industry, ideally with knowledge of the company’s own products and lines.
• Experience in supporting the implementation of health and safety initiatives.
• Familiarity with alcohol duty, import and export
• HACCP Level 3 
• IOSH Training
• DSEAR Training

We’re all about boundless curiosity, so you’ll find plenty of opportunities to develop your skills and work alongside talented people who all share the same goal: to make Atom successful. Trust is at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll be part of an open and supportive environment where we have each other’s backs, free from outdated corporate policies.

Life here is about more than just pay. While salary is important, it’s the unique culture, teamwork, and the chance to be part of something different that really sets us apart.

As this is a fixed-term position, you’ll still enjoy a great range of benefits during your time with us, including access to our workplace pension scheme, free on-site parking, complimentary hot drinks and healthy snacks (like tea, coffee, toast, and fresh fruit), staff discounts on selected products, and the chance to be part of a supportive, down-to-earth team that values collaboration and a positive work environment.

Fixed-Term Contract (6 Months), Full-Time

Working Hours: Full-time, 7.00am - 3.30pm, Mon-Fri.

Salary: £28,000 depending on experience