Micro Analyst and Day Support

Job Overview

Job Title: Micro Analyst and Day Support

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Contract Type: 12 month FTC/Secondment (Family Cover)

Closing Date: 15th June 2026

Shift work is required with a 20% shift allowance on top of base salary.

About the Function: Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. It's fast paced and hands on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers' hands, you'll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.

About the role: Join our dynamic Quality team at the world famous St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin as a Micro Analyst & Day Support-a role at the heart of ensuring the quality and consistency of some of the world's most iconic brands. Reporting to the Quality Manager, you'll work closely with production, brewing, and quality teams across the site to provide critical microbiological analysis that supports both day to day operations and wider site projects. Your work will directly contribute to maintaining the high standards expected across Diageo's global supply chain. This is a hands on, fast paced role where no two days are the same. You'll be balancing routine analysis with problem solving, collaborating with multiple teams, and continuously looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes.

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing:

• Delivering laboratory excellence: You'll carry out microbiological sampling, testing, and reporting to ensure products meet stringent quality standards. This includes working with techniques such as aseptic sampling, plating, staining, microscopy, and LIMS systems-ensuring data is accurate, timely and reliable.
• Supporting brewery operations: Acting as a key partner to production teams you'll help troubleshoot issues, interpret results, and provide insights that support operational decision making across the brewery.
• Driving quality and compliance: You'll play an active role in delivering the site's Quality Agenda-ensuring adherence to Quality Sample Plans, GMP standards, and food safety requirements. You'll also support the preparation of analytical reagents and ensure all lab processes remain audit ready.
• Collaborating across teams: This role involves regular interaction with cross functional teams, building strong working relationships and ensuring a seamless flow of information between Quality and Operations.
• Supporting and developing others: You'll help train and guide laboratory staff and production personnel on QC testing methods, contributing to capability building across the site. While the role has no direct reports, you'll act as a subject matter support for newer team members.
• Providing flexible shift support: In addition to your core responsibilities, you'll support shift based Micro Analysts when required-bringing flexibility and adaptability to meet business needs.
• Continuous improvement & problem solving: You'll be encouraged to challenge existing processes, identify improvement opportunities, and contribute to enhancing efficiency, quality, and performance across the lab and wider site.

Qualifications

About You: We're looking for someone who combines strong technical capability with a proactive, solutions focused mindset. You'll bring:

• A degree in a relevant scientific field
• Experience in a laboratory or food manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of microbiological techniques
• Understanding of GMP and quality standards
• Familiarity with Food Safety legislation and HACCP (desirable)
• Strong problem solving and diagnostic skills
• Ability to manage workload effectively in a fast paced environment
• Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Benefits

Rewards & Benefits Statement: We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity statement: 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.