Role: Electrical Engineering Technician - Diageo/Guinness Beer

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Contract: Perm

Closing Date: 7th January 2024

Salary: £50550 pa including shift allowance

This role will require you to work a continental shift pattern which will include day shift and night shift.

Take our heritage into the future.

Benefits

As one of the world's leading alcoholic beverage companies, we pride ourselves on providing our employees with a competitive salary and an annual bonus.

W e also offer free onsite parking, ensuring that your commute is hassle-free.

We believe in equal opportunities for all, which is why we provide six months of fully paid family leave, regardless of gender.

Planning for your future is important, which is why we contribute 14% to your pension while you contribute 6%.

Additionally, as a Diageo employee, you'll receive a product allowance and have access to our share schemes, including share save and freeshares.

Join Diageo today and enjoy all these amazing benefits and more

About Us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

About the role

As an Electrical Engineering Technician, you’ll play a pivotal role within our dedicated team by increasing line efficiencies through minimisation of unplanned line stoppages, maximising the effectiveness of planned maintenance and leading continuous improvement activities in your area at our Guinness packaging site at Marshalls Road, Belfast.

You’ll engage with all maintenance personnel to deliver and review effective immediate maintenance and performance turnarounds whilst maintaining operating equipment to maximise uptime and deliver solutions for ‘trending maintenance failures’ (downtime) using root cause problem solving.

You’ll continuously aim for next level of performance with a clear vision aligned with Diageo standards and manufacturing excellence.

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.

This role requires you to work a 42hr week, 24/7 cover consisting of 2 day shifts, 2 night shifts, on a rolling 4 on 4 off basis.

About you

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

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

You'll be a time served electrical engineer with an understanding of the opposite core skill and have relevant qualifications and demonstrable knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk principles.

Requirements – skills and experience

For this role you must have a recognised Electrical apprenticeship, an Electrical HNC or equivalent.

• Variable frequency drives.
• Servo drives and motors.
• Asi bus, profi bus.
• Electro-pneumatics.
• PLC experience (desired but not essential).
• 3 phase motors and control circuits.
• Mechanical works including bearings, belts, pulleys.
• 17th/18th Edition Electrical Wiring

Experience – Essential

· Numerical/verbal reasoning, computer literate

· Understanding of Asset Performance and maintenance philosophy with excellent Process Improvement and root cause problem solving skills

· Ability to work autonomously.

· Ability to work in a team and be an effective team member, good communication skills.

· Has strength of character to challenge poor team behaviours

· Is an ambassador for Manufacturing Excellence and continuous improvement

· Responds to change in a positive and flexible manner.

Desirable

· Knowledge of risk standards (Quality H&S Environment) Safety and hygiene compliance procedures

· SAP Experience

Diversity statement

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 unique contribution each person brings.