**Job Description :** **Quality Assurance Analyst** **St. James’s Gate Brewery, Dublin** **12 Month Fixed Term Contract** **Closing Date: 22nd** **August 2025** **About Us** With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating! **About the Function** Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations. Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture. **About the Role** We are looking for a Quality Assurance Analyst to join our team, providing a wide range of laboratory analysis to support our brewing and project teams. This role plays a key part in driving the Quality Agenda on-site, supporting projects, developing new analytical testing methods and ensuring high standards across all lab operations. You will work closely with production teams across the brewery, reporting directly to the Quality Manager and acting as a key liaison between quality and operational teams to ensure accurate, timely data and continuous improvement of laboratory processes. **Purpose of the role:** + Provide accurate and repeatable analytical data to the brewing teams in a timely manner. + Understand the relevance of analysis at each stage of the brewing process and promptly report any out-of-spec results to the Brewing Shift Manager. + Analyse trends in laboratory instrument performance, troubleshoot deviations and diagnose root causes. + Provide technical input and coaching to production teams when issues arise. + Support all aspects of the Quality Agenda on site, including projects and the development of new analytical tests. **Key Responsibilities:** + Ensure asset care of all laboratory instruments, maintaining the lab to a high operational standard. + Maintain and calibrate instruments, prepare standards and analytical reagents required for testing. + Conduct routine sample analysis as required and coordinate external sample testing, including monthly submissions and result recording. + Operate and calibrate the Thermofisher for Poly, FAN, Iron and Calcium analysis, including introducing ABV analysis for pure brew. + Perform Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) for yeast zinc and wort magnesium analysis, and GC-MS pyrazine analysis when requested. + Handle site-wide sampling, particularly in support of project-related work. + Deliver accurate analytical data on time, ensuring all Quality Sample Plans are met. + Work to safe systems of operation, conducting risk assessments of laboratory processes. + Take ownership of your training and development needs to maintain high technical capability. + Support the development and implementation of the site’s Quality & Food Safety Strategy, contributing to FSSC 22000, ISO 9000 and FEMAS certification compliance. + Lead and support initiatives to enhance lab capabilities and reduce operational costs. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone who thrives on problem-solving, process improvement and delivering precise, reliable analytical data to support brewing excellence. Additionally, this role entails providing long-term sick cover for analytical and micro lab duties, so it is important that the successful candidate is flexible around business requirements at short notice. This would potentially cover day, night and weekend shifts. **About You** We’re looking for someone with a passion for quality, continuous improvement, and scientific excellence, who can work collaboratively to support our teams. If you’re motivated to make an impact and thrive in a hands-on laboratory environment, this could be the perfect role for you. You’ll bring: + A science degree in a relevant scientific subject. + An IBD brewing qualification (desirable, but not essential). + Knowledge of statistical techniques, including Statistical Process Control (SPC). + Strong problem evaluation and solving skills, with the ability to think critically and deliver solutions. + Excellent organisational skills and great attention to detail. + A team-focused approach, contributing positively to collaborative working and shared goals. **Working with Us** Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. **Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!** **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** St James Gate **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-08-06 With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. 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