Location: Gimli, Manitoba

Term: Full Time

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.

Nestled on the edge of Lake Winnipeg, Crown Royal’s distillery in Gimli, Manitoba is home to 1.696 million barrels of delicious whisky that sit patiently waiting to be shared with the world. One of Manitoba’s natural beauties, the town of Gimli hugs the western shoreline of one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes, with sandy beaches, an active harbor and the largest Islandic population outside Iceland.

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 You

We’re looking for people with character: Safety-minded, motivated, resilient, and forward-thinking. This is the dream role for someone who is looking to deliver high standards through building and engaging a high performing team. You will demonstrate role model behavior and mentor others to follow a consistent approach. This role provides an excellent opportunity for you to further develop your leadership and functional skills within a varied and demanding live operational setting.

It is desirable you understand the principles and fundamentals of engineering and maintenance, lean methodologies, and process control to support leading by example and advocating industry standards and regulations.

You will have a solid, demonstrated experience in implementing world class tools and lean manufacturing methodologies, managing plant wide change initiatives. Your communication style both written and verbal are excellent and you will have proven leadership skills, particularly in creating possibilities, change management, consistent delivery of great performance and managing people for success.

We’re looking for someone who is self-motivated and able to achieve high impact within Diageo.

About the Role

In addition to understanding the core Lean concepts, tools, and practices, using your Six Sigma Certification, you have the capability and skills to lead and facilitate improvement initiatives within the organization.

You will engage, empower, and encourage the team with your support and model behaviors to deliver continuous improvement in all departments. Collaborating with operational partners, you will deliver against critical metric objectives, drive reduction in targeted waste streams, support, coach and track all root cause problem solving. Using your passion for lean techniques you will optimize safety, quality, production and cost objectives through employee involvement and team approach to problem solving. You are the advisor and planner who will implement key initiatives to improve all operations through regular meetings with the teams to drive performance improvement and increased levels of engagement.

You can link planning to develop clear guidelines for the effective planning of operations benchmark and measure our performance against world class, keep up to date of industry changes including new technology, equipment, and systems. Together, our goal is to move site performance to world class.

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.

Character Is Everything