Operator Technician

Are you looking for new challenges and personal growth within Coca-Cola Europacific Partners? Then we have a great opportunity for you!
Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?
Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?
Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Edmonton Operations produce 50 million cases of drinks per year across their 5 manufacturing lines. The site can produce up to 142,000 litres of drink per hour consisting of both PET and Glass bottling. They are the only site in GB to produce our Oasis Drinks. There are over 200 people across Manufacturing, QESH and Engineering, experience here can lead to excellent career opportunities both in Edmonton and further afield across other GB sites and Pan-European locations.

What to expect:

The Laboratory Operator is responsible for ensuring product quality, food safety, and process compliance across all manufacturing lines. This role requires a strong chemistry or laboratory science background and the ability to independently perform analytical testing, maintain laboratory equipment, and support production through accurate process adjustments.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Conduct all routine and advanced tests on beverages, water, packaging, and ingredients, including Brix, acidity, carbonation, CO , chlorine, phosphate, sugar, RO water, rinse water, torque tests, burst tests, and sensory samples.
• Perform microbiological checks: ATP swabs, classical swabs, sample logging, and data entry.
• Operate, verify, and calibrate all major lab instruments including autotitrators, HPLC, conductivity meters, thermometers, pH probes, factory scales, and supporting equipment.
• Complete all asset care tasks and maintain audit ready documentation.
• Adjust syrup ratios and carbonation settings across production lines to keep products within specification.
• Perform manual CO checks and support water treatment tasks (UV unit swapping, rebooting).

Skills & Essentials:

• Background in Chemistry, Laboratory Technology, or related scientific field.
• Strong analytical skills and familiarity with laboratory instruments.
• Proficiency with SAP and digital data systems.
• High attention to detail, problem solving ability, and the capability to work independently.
• Clear communication skills for cross functional teamwork and training.

We are Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) - a dedicated team of 42,000 people, serving customers in 31 countries, who work together to make, move and sell some of the world's most loved drinks.
We are a global business and one of the leading consumer goods companies in the world. We help our 2.1 million customers grow, and we are constantly investing in exciting new products, innovative technologies and fresh ideas. This helps us to delight the 600 million people who enjoy our drinks every day.

From gender, age and ethnicity to sexual orientation and different abilities, we welcome people from all walks of life and empower unique perspectives. We recognise we've got some way to go, but we'll get there with the support of our people. It's them who drive our future growth. To find out more about what it's like to work at and our culture we would welcome you to speak to one of our employees on our live chat platform, just click here to speak to an insider

We recognise some people prefer not to participate in alcohol related sales, interactions, or promotions. If that's true for you - please raise this with your talent acquisition contact who will advise you on whether this role includes activities related to our alcohol portfolio.