Operators (Warehouse & DU Team)

Blackgrange

Full time, Permanent

Closing Date – 10/03/2024

Operator – Base salary of £31,035.35 + competitive benefits package including pension, shares scheme and bonus!

About Us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company known for our wonderful collection of iconic brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness.

At Diageo, we source, produce and deliver 6.5 billion litres of our world leading products every year with over 200 brands in 180 countries. Our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge, and skills. Our purpose is to celebrate life every day, everywhere, and we believe that everyone has a unique contribution to make, regardless of their background, religion, gender identity, ethnicity, or sexuality. We believe in a diverse and inclusive culture, and we're committed to attracting diverse talent from around the world.

Flexibility

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Both roles detailed are for core day shift. A flexible approach to working hours, including overtime during busy periods, may be required to support production demands and meet critical deadlines.

About the role

We are delighted to share that we have excellent opportunities for Operators to join our Blackgrange Warehousing and DU Teams.

All roles are pivotal within the whisky supply process and will oversee and control the safe movement of spirit within an established set of process procedures.

As an Operator within our Warehousing Team, you will provide support to the Site Leadership Team and work closely with operator team members to deliver production commitments.

You will meet and exceed site production targets. Ensuring seamless production, identify areas of concern, and highlight any potential deadline misses in advance. Guaranteeing Diageo quality and compliance across your working area will be a key part of your role making sure this is supervised and always improved.

As an Operator within our DU Team, you’ll support a range of operator activities on site to achieve and surpass the planned weekly and daily production schedules. Primarily your role will be within the pallet plant at Blackgrange, however you may be required to support a range of activities across site, including warehousing, filling, disgorging and empty cask movement.

Both roles will typically entail physical manual handling activities, the wearing of PPE and frequent bending, twisting, turning, and standing for long periods of time.

Health and safety compliance is key and you’ll be at the forefront of making sure this is supervised alongside other key performance indicators and targets such as production quality and HMRC compliance.

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.

Be 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 and show your excellent communication skills.

You'll be working alongside both internal and external partners to achieve shared and individual goals.

You’ll have shown knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk principles.

Skills and proficiency are things that matter to Diageo, and so we’d love to hear from candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and experience who are passionate about transferring those skills and experience into a Whisky maturation environment.

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.

Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

If you feel that one of these roles would be something for you then this may be the ideal time to challenge yourself and make a change!

Apply now with an up-to-date CV and our Talent Team we will be in touch soon. Good Luck.

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