About the role
As Shift Leader, reporting to the Brewing Manager, you’ll play a key role in leading production line performance and team effectiveness. You’ll also support and develop colleagues, ensuring they feel engaged, capable, and confident in their roles, all while working collaboratively with your peers to maintain a safe, efficient, and high-performing operation aligned to Total Productive Management (TPM) principles.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Lead shift brewing operations to achieve KPIs, performance, and financial targets.
- Champion safety, behavioural standards, and occupational health to support a Zero Accident Culture.
- Maintain high quality standards through effective assurance, control, and team capability.
- Drive clear communication, Daily Control System routines, and effective shift handovers.
- Collaborate with TPM stakeholders and lead Autonomous Maintenance and loss-reduction activities.
- Minimise material and product losses while ensuring accurate stock management.
- Strengthen performance through coaching, training, and development planning.
- Build a positive, high-performance team culture aligned with Heineken supply chain priorities.
About the team
- Helping millions of consumers enjoy our beers and ciders is a real team effort. As a Supply Chain colleague, you’ll be part of the biggest function in HEINEKEN UK!
- From barley to bar, our Supply Chain produces high-quality beers and ciders, prioritising safety, sustainability and innovation to keep our operations running smoothly.
- You’ll be part of the wider brewing team, focused on producing our well-loved brands through consistent, well-established processes and ways of working. The role supports high-performing teams to deliver excellent brewing standards while identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and innovation across production.
Who we’re looking for
We’re seeking a proactive leader who can inspire and motivate others to achieve exceptional results. The ideal candidate will have:
As well as the above, the ideal candidate will have:
- Strong experience in Brewing and FMCG exposure is essential.
- TPM / Continuous Improvement Know-How: proven experience of Total Productive Maintenance principles or CI through use of methodologies such as 5ys, Ishikawa, Lean six sigma or similar.
- People Management Skills: A proven track record of leading teams with a supportive, engaging leadership style to drive high consistent performance.
- Laser-Focused on Safety: A solid commitment to health and safety with exceptional attention to detail with IOSH certificate as a minimum.
- Bachelor’s or Diploma in Chemistry, Brewing, Food Sciences or similar is mandatory.
If you thrive in a dynamic environment and know how to bring out the best in your team, this is your chance to make an impact!
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About the role
As the Technician, you’ll work within our botting line of production; we support the production of approximately 4.2 mhl per year brewing and packaging some of the nation’s favourite brands, so we need to make sure our machinery is in top condition! Our technicians utilise their proactivity to identify any abnormalities on the plant; to mitigate any downtime of production whilst also working to support colleagues directly on the shop floor and monitor the overall performance of the production line.
Your day to day will vary, but at its core you will:
- Perform corrective and reactive maintenance to address defects, losses and breakdowns.
- Diagnose and resolve electrical, automation and mechanical faults, ensuring minimal downtime.
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement lasting countermeasures, including risk assessments, positive interventions, safety tags, near-miss reporting and 5S activities.
- Drive Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) initiatives to eliminate losses and promote lean practices.
- Plan and coordinate maintenance activities with Maintenance colleagues, Operators and Technician’s to maximise production reliability.
- Support and guide shop-floor operators, delegating tasks when required to maintain smooth production.
- Collaborate with operators on autonomous maintenance (AM) tasks and assist the shift manager with asset-related issues affecting performance.
- Identify and record non-conformities in the CMMS to support continuous improvement.
- Maintain high standards of equipment cleanliness and reliability, contributing to site objectives for safety, quality, cost and service.
- Champion and uphold HSE standards to maintain a safe, clean and compliant working environment.
About the team
Helping millions of consumers enjoy our beers and ciders is a real team effort. As a Supply Chain colleague, you’ll be part of the biggest function in HEINEKEN UK! From barley to bar, our Supply Chain produces high-quality beers and ciders, prioritising safety, sustainability and innovation to keep our operations running smoothly.
You’ll be based within the broader packaging team, focused on keeping our bottling, canning and other lines running smoothly and efficiently. Your role contributes to ensuring machinery is reliable, well-maintained and safe, while also anticipating future needs and driving fresh, innovative improvements to increase the site’s overall output.
Who we’re looking for
We’re seeking individuals whom, like us, are fuelled with curiosity, a drive to win and thrive in their ability to problem-solve.
As well as the above, the ideal candidate will have:
- Necessary qualifications such as a near/full completion of an Apprenticeship, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering (HND or NVQ Level 3) OR time served as a Multiskilled Engineer (Electrical Bias).
- Previous experience in a highly automated, safety-critical manufacturing environment, with desirable exposure to high-speed packaging lines (particularly bottling).
- Previous experience executing planned maintenance techniques and Computerised Maintenance Management (CMM) systems.
- A continuous improvement mindset
- Confidence and ability to work autonomously
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About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Responsibility & Policy Manager to drive HEINEKEN UK’s responsibility agenda and strengthen our reputation with key external stakeholders. Reporting to the Head of Public Affairs & Responsibility, this role plays a key role within our Corporate Affairs team, shaping policy, leading inspiring responsibility campaigns, and representing HEINEKEN in the public policy arena.
This role protects our licence to operate and promotes our freedom to grow through:
- Responsibility leadership: create and deliver HEINEKEN UK’s Responsibility strategy, activating campaigns that make moderation aspirational, reduce harmful consumption, and highlight our leadership in Low & No alcohol.
- Public policy influence: monitor UK and international policy developments (duty, labelling, health policy, minimum unit pricing), advise the business on risks and opportunities, and help shape the regulatory environment.
- External engagement: represent HEINEKEN UK with politicians, regulators, and industry bodies (e.g. Portman Group, Drinkaware, IARD, WBA), building strong advocates for our business and category.
- Thought leadership: deliver programmes and partnerships that position HEINEKEN as a positive force in society, including charitable initiatives addressing harmful consumption and data-led evidence for beer and cider differentiation.
- Internal mobilisation: engage colleagues and commercial teams with responsibility campaigns, develop tools and content for customers and licensees, and lead cross-functional teams on policy topics.
You’ll also lead horizon scanning, maintain risk registers and policy matrices, and ensure our leadership team is prepared to respond proactively to emerging public policy and media issues.
Who we’re looking for
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in Corporate Affairs, Public Policy, or a related business role.
- Proven ability to plan, design, and deliver projects that achieve key business or policy outcomes.
- Experience engaging senior internal and external stakeholders, including public bodies or politicians.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills – able to translate complex policy into clear, actionable messages.
- Project management experience and the ability to work across multiple functions.
- Knowledge of current public policy issues affecting alcohol or consumer goods is desirable.
- Experience in leading partnerships and delivering long-term public affairs or responsibility programmes is a plus.
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