Wanted: Senior Liquid / Spirits Production Technician

(Strong bias for action essential, accompanied by a passion for liquid production / distilling. Brilliant people to work with, huge staff discount, an amazing culture of freedom and responsibility, and a total lack of corporate rubbish)

About us:

We’re a multi-award-winning drinks and technology start-up on a mission to disrupt the drinks industry.

We’re re-imagining online drinks retail from the ground up, using cutting edge technology and fanatical customer service to build a company we want to be customers of and create unexpected delight as we help people explore, buy and enjoy high end whisky and other spirits.

In everything we do, we are disruptive innovators; it is baked into our DNA to challenge orthodoxy and received wisdom wherever we find it.

We’ve grown a lot since we were just a few kids in a shed with big dreams, but we haven’t lost our hunger to build something great, and we’re looking for people who have the same passion for making things better to join us on that journey.

In the last 10 years we’ve become the number 1 player in our industry, but we’ve barely gotten started. We’re excited about the future, so if you’d like to come and help us build it, read on!

About the role 

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 site management, including facilities, machinery, health & safety and any other processes that support our core business. You’ll contribute towards ensuring the best suitable working environment is attained for the teams, visitors and their activities. 

You’ll assist in the planning 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 where ever possible, 

You’ll report into the Assistant Liquid Production & Site Manager who is based in Edinburgh, 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 Production & Packaging) & Warehousing

• QC & compliance adherence
• KPI efficiencies
• Health & Safety 
• Security 
• Waste disposal (not the Tony Soprano sort, the real sort).
• Staffing levels, training and development,coaching and overall well being
• Production schedule, Packaging schedule and Demand planning
• Product legality 
• Continual improvement plan
• Communication to stakeholders and Efficiencies reporting
• Assisting with Building maintenance, Cleaning, Staff Wellbeing, Staff Training and Development

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 

• Distilling (or equivalent) qualification
• Leadership experience, training of staff.

• 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.

Desirable

• Involvement in forecasting and production planning.
• 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 Management Training
• DSEAR Management Training

We're a growing business and also regularly recruit similar roles in Tonbridge (Kent). If this area is better for you, we’re always happy to hear from great people so please apply and we can let you know as soon as opportunities arise

Benefits

We’re all about boundless curiosity, so you’ll discover loads of opportunities to spark your creative flair and work along-side unreal talent who all have the same job description, to ‘Make Atom Successful.’ Trust is at the epicentre of all that we can do, so you’ll work in a transparent and honest environment where we have each other’s backs, and be free of aging corporate policies and rules.

Life here’s about so much more than pay and benefits - you might get a slightly higher salary if you cram onto an expensive, crowded commuter train into the city, but you’ll struggle to find a company with the flex, agility and unique-ness that we have. In short, we’ve got you covered financially but if money is your main driver, we’re not for you.

We hate waste in all of it’s forms and time is no different, so we’re focused on productivity and output rather than when or where you work, or what you wear into the office - you can come in fancy dress for all we care! This means that although we can’t promise anything, flexible working options are built into our DNA.

Not based in Edi but like what you see?

We're a growing business and also regularly recruit similar roles in Tonbridge (Kent). If this area is better for you, we’re always happy to hear from great people so please apply and we can let you know as soon as opportunities arise

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