We have an exciting opportunity for a Packaging Technologist to join our team based in Irlam, Manchester. This is a permanent, full time position, working 40 hour per week, Monday - Friday.

Kingsland Drinks is a well-established premier independent UK supplier of wine and spirits specialising in providing a complete category solution. Using our consumer understanding and drinks experience, we provide innovative, bespoke solutions to become the partner of choice as we create value for our customers.

Working at Kingsland, a company that is employee owned, means that you can suggest ideas and innovative ways in how we, as a collective run our business. Our most important stakeholder is our members (employees), who have also been key to our success. We have built on our heritage, with a family ethic, and always tried to encourage a positive can-do culture that encourages individual responsibility. We have always valued our members contribution and we recognise that the success of Kingsland has only been possible with everyone’s valued contributions.

Our key objective when we decided on the next step on the journey for Kingsland is for our business to continue to grow and develop and provide security for all our stakeholders. We strongly believe we have created a great legacy that we want to securely hand this on to the next generation and beyond, so the future of the business remains in its own hands. We want Kingsland Drinks Group to be a place people enjoy coming to work and a business our members feel proud of.

What does this corker of a job entail?
- To perform audits at Kingsland
- To effectively communicate at all levels
- To ensure all Artwork Checks are completed
- To report any non-conforming packaging to suppliers and follow up corrective actions and return of stock
- To liaise with the Engineering/Production Teams
- To decide whether downtime is due to packaging or equipment failures
- Project work / investigative work
- To control non-conforming packaging products in accordance with the documented procedure
- To co-ordinate trials of non-conforming packaging
- To assess incoming packaging materials against specifications
- To provide Packaging support and assistance to Operations
- To carry out project work as directed by Packaging Manager
- To ensure that all packaging specifications are up to date
- To assist in the checking and approval of all packaging pilot samples
- To organize and oversee production trials to ensure the suitability of new packaging materials
- To liaise with Finance to charge and recover costs from suppliers for non-conforming packaging
- To be involved in obsolescent packaging materials

Key Ingredients
- New incumbents would be expected to possess at least 5 O’levels/GCSEs, including passes in Maths and English.
- Proven track record of successfully working with packaging materials from a technical viewpoint
- Good administration skills are essential.
- Must have the ability to communicate at all levels.
- Must have the ability to maintain a high level of discipline.
- IT skills to support and enhance performance.
- Proven track record of team working and continuous improvement objectives.
- Ability to make reasoned decisions and strength of character to stand by them
- Ability to autonomous and self-motivated

This job comes with a full bottle / glass of benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement that increases with length of service
- Company day at Christmas, to share with your nearest and dearest
- Annual profit share based on company KPI’s
- Huge discounts on wine and spirits in our company shop
- Flexible working options
- Life assurance cover
- A generous thank-you gift if you 'recommend a friend' to work with us too. Lots of people work alongside their loved ones at Kingsland.
- Wellbeing resources, including Mental Health First Aiders and access to an EAP with free counselling. **Your wellbeing is a top priority, and there's lots of support at Kingsland.**:

- Well-being App to help support your mental health
- Health Checks (diabetes/blood pressure, stop smoking advice etc.)
- Training and progression opportunities open to all, including fully funded apprenticeships.
- Involvement with New product development (Wine / Spirit tasting)
- On-site free car parking
- Electric Vehicle charging
- Local Community involvement - Irlam Live ticket discounts and Rugby ticket discounts

Don’t bottle it, this job will make your career Fizz