Laboratory Technician

　　Date: Jan 18, 2024

　　Location:

　　Burton Upon Trent, GB

　　Company: MolsonCoors_UK

　　Requisition ID: 29486

　　T2 – Laboratory Technician

　　Full Time Permanent position

　　39 Hours a week

　　Monday – Friday

　　Why You Should Join Us

　　For over two centuries, Molson Coors has been bringing people together over a cold beer, but today, our modern portfolio of award-winning brands extends beyond beer to meet the evolving tastes and preferences of our consumers.

　　With a presence in over 100 countries and a team of 16,000 talented employees globally, we take pride in our traditions, brands and the role we play in uniting people to celebrate all life’s moments.

　　As one of the world’s leading beverage companies, we are passionate about promoting responsible drinking and creating a sustainable future.

　　In addition to popular favourites like Coors, Carling and Doom Bar, our beverage portfolio includes Aspall, Rekorderlig, Staropramen, Madrí Excepcional and Blue Moon. We also have an expanding and evolving premium spirits range that include Black Cow Vodka, Bandero Tequila and Tarquins Gin.

　　As a People First organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working options.

　　T2 – Laboratory Technician

　　We are looking to recruit a candidate on a permanent, full-time basis to work within the local team to provide operational and continuous improvement skills to deliver the laboratory needs for the department to deliver and continuously improve on safety, cost, quality, and service targets. Demonstrate flexibility and implementation of skills, developing and utilising World Class Supply Chain processes to contribute to delivering World Class standards of operations within the work-team and Burton Brewery. Develop others, build capability, and continuously improve through the sharing of knowledge and skills, as well as being a willing recipient of new skills to grow overall team competence and flexibility.

　　Your Purpose

　　To carry out Laboratory Analysis in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Operate and continuously improve departmental control systems (e.g. safety, quality, environment, cost) in the interest of achieving the highest standards of operations and supporting effective communication in the department and across Burton Brewery, internal and external customers, and suppliers.

　　Take responsibility for auditing and monitoring standards. Highlight issues and take ownership of 'close-out' actions. Maintain equipment and work area in optimum condition by performing autonomous maintenance and 5S tasks during the normal course of operations.

　　Share responsibility for the sustainability of maintenance performance across the department and site to ensure optimum performance and World Class standards.

　　Work within all local hygiene, health, safety and environmental legislation and best practice, including, and not limited to; HACCP, COSHH, BRC, FEMAS, Safety the Molson Coors way and maintain personal legislative training compliance. Continuously review practices, process, and operations to identify opportunities to improve standards. Work with colleagues and peers to develop these improvements and embed into day-to-day operations. Monitor and record trends in quality and hygiene outputs. Continuously improve performance - Productivity, Cost, Delivery, Quality, Environment, Morale, Safety, PCDQEMS - taking responsibility for the implementation and execution of key World Class Supply Chain activities.

　　Improve process and/or operational capability by leading problem-solving tools and techniques, carrying out root cause analysis to determine cause of problems with the overall objective of improving department and site KPIs. Initiate, monitor and utilise trend analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of problem-solving activities and sustainability of solutions. Take responsibility for auditing to improve performance and monitoring best practice in World Class Supply Chain elements across the team, department, and site.

　　Own and drive metrics, sharing responsibility for planning and execution of work to achieve defined schedules, ensuring all product quality, cost and customer service targets are achieved by the team. Monitor and record changes to plan and engage in activity to improve.

　　Review and continuously improve performance management standards and systems while actively engaging with communication processes to share outputs with colleagues, peers, and management groups. Actively participate in routine meeting. Maintain and improve data scheduling and data collection systems, including variance investigation and system improvements. Work in a flexible way to support other functions such as microbiology, analytical chemistry and sensory.

　　About You

　　You may not meet all the criteria for the role, but don't let that stop you from applying. We all need to learn and develop and here at Molson Coors we can help you do this.

　　Experience working in an appropriate lab environment in a food/drink manufacturing environment, leaning towards a microbiological focus.

　　Effectively communicate with teams on other shifts through logbooks and daily handover meetings.

　　Able to facilitate meetings and team-based project groups.

　　Able to plan, co-ordinate and improve work done by the team, as a member of that team. Within agreed timescale achieve WCSC validation

　　Working knowledge of SAP.

　　About Us

　　We’re one of the UK’s Most Attractive Employers winning the Top Employer award for the last 10 years

　　Flexible work programmes to ensure a work life balance is maintained such as our market leading Moments That Matter for significant moments in your life.

　　Commitment to the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people. We are proud to have been awarded Gold in Mind’s Workplace Wellbeing Awards.

　　We’re committed to raising industry standards and leaving a positive imprint on our employees, consumers, communities, and the environment which is reflected in Our Beer Print and our 2025 sustainability targets .

　　Molson Coors Beverage Company: Building Careers

　　Molson Coors Beverage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we seek diversity. We want to continue to create an environment where our people are truly able to be themselves at work, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We want people to be able to bring their own creativity and style to work, so that we get diversity in our thinking across our organisation, as we believe that we are a better business for it.

　　This makes our talent strategy simple – we want the best talent in all our roles, regardless of their background. We take pride in celebrating our unique brew and our people are our greatest asset.

　　We are Disability Confident Committed. If you require any additional assistance or adjustments in advance of, or during the application and/or hiring process, please contact us at [email protected] .

　　We want you to succeed and will be happy to support you.