Reliability Engineer, Manchester

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 27,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations. We operate Guinness packaging facilities at Marshalls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Runcorn, in North West England, producing canned, bottled and kegged product for Ireland, UK and export markets. Significant investment is underway at both of these locations.

This role is site based at Runcorn which is an 18 Acre site running a 24/7 Operation with 4 rotational crews. It has 2 Bottling, 2 Canning lines and 1 Kegging production line. There are 90+ SKUs with 16 different Beer/Liquid types covering producing on average 23 million cases of product per annum.

As the Manufacturing Reliability Engineer at Diageo's Beer Packaging Site, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of efficient and effective maintenance, repair, problem solving and improvement of assets and their availability across our site. You will accurately record and report the outcomes of any maintenance problems via our maintenance systems to facilitate the sharing of best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring all assigned Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules are carried out at the defined frequency and completed to the required standard.
• Coaching operators to perform autonomous maintenance tasks, machine set ups optimisation and support growth in equipment capability as the need arises.
• Proactively working with our Operators, Engineers and team leaders to play a pivotal role in situational problem solving and finding solutions.
• Supporting capital expenditure projects, including installation, commissioning and testing within area as required.
• Responsible for feeding into early equipment management.
• Daily Tier meetings and performance-based consultations to raise and address persistent performance issues.
• You will use data analysis to scope and deliver ‘improvement projects’ which support compliance, waste, cost and performance reliability.
• You will review and improve our maintenance strategy, ensuring we are a proactive and condition-based engineering department as opposed to preventative and reactive.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Work well in a team as well as the ability to make effective decisions and thrive in situations where they can solve problems.
• Have excellent communication and influencing skills and are able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities.
• Have the strive to make a positive difference to manufacturing excellence.
• Are a time served mechanical or electrical engineer or technician with an understanding of the opposite core skill and have relevant qualifications and demonstrable knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk principles.

Working with Us:

Join us and you can expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including but not limited to:

• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Private medical insurance
• Access to discounts at 1000's of retailers
• Contributory pension of up to 14% by Diageo
• Company free shares upon joining
• Sharesave/share purchase/share match options
• Cycle to work scheme
• Annual bonus of circa 15% of your base salary (dependent on performance)
• 34 days annual leave per annum including bank holidays
• 6 months paid parental leave to all employees

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings.

About Us:

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. Our ambition is to build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people. We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, groundbreaking brands to the next level. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.