About this role
Job Description :
Microbiologist
Location: Leven, Fife
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
End date to Apply: 01st Feb'2026
Salary- £40,646.00 plus competitive benefits package with pension, shares scheme and bonus.
Join our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team.
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’re excited to offer a brand-new role with the opportunity to truly make it your own. Reporting directly to our Food Safety Lead, you’ll collaborate with global stakeholders and play a key part in crafting the future of our innovative product range. Based in our brand-new laboratory, this position focuses on developing and ensuring the safety of 0% alcohol products, giving you the chance to work at the forefront of a growing market.
You will be instrumental in guaranteeing the safety, stability, and premium quality of Diageo’s low and no alcohol products. Your expertise will protect consumer safety, uphold product integrity, and strengthen brand reputation by applying microbiological knowledge across spirit production, packaging, and innovation. You will also ensure full compliance with Diageo Quality Standards, HACCP, FSSC 22000, GMP, and all relevant regulatory requirements
Additional responsibilities include:
Provide technical microbiological input into product development, trials, scale-up, and shelf-life studies, supporting innovation and the successful delivery of new low/no alcohol products.
Develop, validate and continuously improve microbiological test methods tailored to low and no alcohol products ensuring accurate, reliable and timely results.
Monitor, analyse and interpret microbiological data and trends to proactively identify risks, resolve issues and implement preventive measures.
Partner with cross-functional teams (Quality, Operations, Technical, and Engineering) to embed microbiological protocols into processes, systems and everyday culture.
Performing routine and non-routine microbiological testing of raw materials, water, in-process samples, environment and finished low/no alcohol products using validated methods appropriate to product matrices.
About You
To be successful for this role, you have a degree in Microbiology, Food Science, or a related scientific discipline. You’ll also be able to demonstrate good practical knowledge of classical microbiology techniques such as aseptic technique, serial dilution, spread plating, filtration plating, water and environmental monitoring, and GLP.
In addition, you’ll have:
Practical experience in industrial microbiology, ideally within beverage, food, or pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Proficiency in aseptic techniques, microbial identification and microbiological method development/validation.
Good working knowledge of CIP systems and their efficiency with a track record in trouble-shooting microbial issues.
Ability to interpret microbiological data, trend results, and translate findings into risk-based actions.
Practical experience with low and no alcohol products or other high-risk food categories would be an advantage.
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!
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Worker Type :
RegularPrimary Location:
Leven ProcessingAdditional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-12-17Other facts
About Diageo
Diageo's official LinkedIn account. We're a global leader in premium drinks, across spirits and beer, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of the industry.
With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, our portfolio has remarkable breadth. From centuries-old names to exciting new entrants, and global giants to local legends, we're building the very best brands out there, and with over 30,000 talented people based in over 135 countries, we're a truly global company. With such diversity, we're able to truly represent our broad consumer base and think differently about the future.
To maintain our position as leaders in the alcoholic beverage market, we always invest in the future and are mindful of the impact we have. Because just like the legends of our past, we're here to raise the bar – for people as well as the planet.
What you'll do
- The role involves developing and ensuring the safety of 0% alcohol products while collaborating with global stakeholders. Responsibilities include providing technical microbiological input into product development and ensuring compliance with quality standards.
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