Job Description

Requisition ID: 38675

Brands to love, Careers to last. 

Why You Should Join Us

At Molson Coors, we've been bringing people together over a cold beer for more than 200 years. Our award-winning portfolio includes beloved brands such as Coors, Carling, Madri Excepcional and Blue Moon. Our diverse range also features popular brands like Aspall, Rekorderlig, Staropramen, Doom Bar.
As a global leader in the beverage industry, we are deeply committed to promoting responsible drinking and driving sustainability. 
With a presence in over 100 countries and a team of 16,000 employees, we are dedicated to fostering a sustainable future for our communities and championing responsible drinking worldwide. 
Joining us means becoming part of a company that values tradition while innovating to meet the evolving tastes of our consumers. We believe in celebrating all of life’s moments together and making a positive impact in the world. 
As a People First organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working options.

Your Purpose

We’re currently recruiting for a Laboratory Technician to support quality and process excellence within our operation. In this role, you’ll manage laboratory testing, standards management, and yeast systems playing a vital part in preventing defects and delivering right-first-time quality. You’ll ensure high standards of hygiene, reliability, and performance, while coaching operational teams to uphold QA and OPQC standards.

The role is shift based, you will be working over 6am - 2pm, 8am - 4pm and 2pm - 10pm.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out laboratory testing (physical chemistry and microbiological) in line with SOPs and ensure results meet quality standards.
• Maintain and improve SOPs and train Process Technicians to follow quality and OPQC requirements, to drive defect prevention and right‑first‑time quality.
• Own laboratory and yeast propagation processes, ensuring consistency from lab scale to production, ensuring hygiene and consistency.
• Maintain laboratory and yeast plant equipment, including calibration, validation and hygiene, and escalating reliability risks.
• Champion hygiene, safety and compliance standards (HACCP, COSHH, BRC, FEMAS), maintaining training compliance and acting immediately on deviations.
• Support problem solving and continuous improvement using data, SPC, and root cause analysis to investigate and eliminate quality deviations.

About You

• Hands-on experience in physical chemistry and microbiological testing.
• Experience developing and working with SOPs and quality standards.
• Strong data analysis skills, including SPC and root cause analysis.
• Ability to coach, train, and influence others on quality standards.

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 we can help you do this here at Molson Coors.

About Us

• We’re one of the UK’s Most Attractive Employers winning the Top Employer award for the last 13 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 reflective of our People First value.
• 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, value and respect everyone’s unique perspectives and experiences knowing that we are stronger together.

Our aim to build a skilled and highly engaged workforce that unites around our shared values and reflects our diverse marketplace; and foster a workplace where all employees’ unique talents, skills and perspectives are valued and leveraged – where all people feel that we are #BetterWithYou. This makes our talent strategy simple – we want the best talent in all our roles, regardless of their background.

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 careers@molsoncoors.com.

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