Maintenance Engineer at Diageo

About the role  

Working across our canning and bottling areas, you’ll play a pivotal role providing maintenance and continuous improvement skills to deliver and improve on safety, quality, delivery, productivity, cost and asset care. You’ll be accountable to ensure all assigned Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules are carried out at the defined frequency and completed to the required standard to ensure downtime is minimized. 

In addition, you’ll be responsible for supporting installation, commissioning, and testing within the area as the need arises. You’ll work closely with and coach operators, engineers and team leaders to perform autonomous maintenance tasks, machine set ups optimisation and support growth in equipment capability as required. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Follow Diageo health and safety, environmental and food safety standards, and work to all applicable legislative procedures.
• Maintain a safe and organised workplace environment through alignment to the Safety and 5S MMS practices.
• Provide crafts resource (electrical and mechanical) to the Operations Team
• Make full use of SAP - SAP reporting & recording completion.
• Raise 5 why’s as defined by agreed trigger points. Work with Operators and site leaders to play   a proactive role in situational problem solving on shift. Fixing problems and finding solutions
• Participate in line improvement projects.
• Anticipate issues and be more proactive in approach.

  Health and safety compliance is key, and you’ll be at the forefront of making sure this is monitored alongside other KPI’s and targets.  

About you

For this role you will be a time served Electrical or Mechanical Engineer or have acquired a minimum of HNC in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering and SVQ Level 2 & 3 alongside relevant work experience.

In addition to this, you will have demonstrable knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk. It'd be advantageous if you had knowledge of working in the manufacturing industry however this is not essential.

We’re looking for someone who can work well within a team as well as the ability to make effective conclusions and thrive in situations where they can solve problems.

You’ll be able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities. You’ll have the aim to make a positive difference to manufacturing excellence and show your excellent communication skills.

Working with us

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

• Contributary pension scheme of up to 14%
• Share options
• 28 days’ vacation per annum (plus 8 statutory days)
• Product allowance so you can enjoy our brands at home
• Optional healthcare scheme
• And much more!