Müller UK & Ireland

Laboratory Technician

Manchester M17 1TU

Key information

Pay
£30000-50000 per annum
Hours
Full-time
Contract
Permanent
Posted date
20 Aug 2026
Closing date
19 Sep 2026

About this role

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Müller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.

Laboratory Technician

Manchester

Permanent contract

4 on 4 off shift pattern (2 days, 2 nights 7-7)

Salary £34,910.16

We are looking for a Laboratory Technician to join our Manchester Dairy within our Müller Milk & Ingredients business.

The main purpose of the Laboratory Technician is assuring quality performance through analysis, subject knowledge and testing performance whilst striving to continuously improve in line with the Müller values.

Lab Technician Key tasks

  • Provide expertise through quality based testing and data evaluation
  • Demonstrate active involvement in solving problems / trouble shooting through data analysis and evaluation
  • Play an active part in building QMS capability across site
  • Responsible for laboratory tasks and management systems (5S etc)
  • Support and process confirms operations quality control responsibilities
  • Provide governance and ownership of Quality Index and other monthly reports
  • Responsible for internal and external audit processes
  • Looks for “waste” in everything that we do
  • Actively seeks out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own continuous improvement projects
  • Collaboratively works with other team members to improve our business

We’re looking for the following from our

Lab Technicians

  • HACCP Awareness (Level 2-3)
  • Basic Food Hygiene
  • Microbiology and aseptic techniques
  • Internal Audit
  • Yellow and Green belt problem solving
  • A3 problem solving
  • Word and Excel
  • Electronic Data Capture
  • Eden Technologist
  • Dairy Science

Benefits

  • Career progression and development
  • Salary sacrifice pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
  • Life Assurance at 2 x your annual salary
  • 264.5 hours holiday