Job Description :

Lead Equipment Owner   

Shieldhall, Glasgow  

Permanent

Closing Date: 9th May 2025

Lead Equipment Owner - £ 37,851.36 + 25.5% shift allowance + competitive benefits package with pension, shares scheme and bonus.

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 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the role 

This role is based at Diageo’s Shieldhall packaging site. Shieldhall packages a huge volume of Scotch malt whiskies, white spirits and ready to drink brands to supply over 170 countries around the world and is a key manufacturing site within the Scotch supply category.

As a Lead Equipment Owner (Lead EO), you will work as part of our core team responsible for delivering a range of tasks associated with operations within our Shieldhall Bottling Hall.   

  

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 including production quality, production efficiency, service, cost efficiency and FI.  Ensuring that operations are performed to the highest standard and both line and site goals are achieved to meet operational needs.  

  

You will continuously be supporting our scotch strategy to deliver within our 3 key areas: Innovation, Efficiency and Society 2030.  

  

Main duties within the role will be to:  

Provide support to the Packaging Team Leaders with daily tasks to ensure line and site KPIs are met and appropriate resources are available Work closely, engage and liaise with other Equipment Owners to deliver production commitments and help generate FI ideas to continuously drive performance and improvement initiatives within the Bottling Hall  Identify areas of concern and proactively highlight any potential risks of missing deadlines.  

  

Effective organisation is important, as the Lead EO you will work within a team and must multitask efficiently to operate the machine and lead additional responsibilities.  

  

Shifts  

  

As a Lead EO, you will work 38 hours per week on double days (early and back shift)

  

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. Passionate and has excellent interpersonal skills, organisation and leadership skills with a demonstrated history of operational excellence.  

  

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.  

  

The ideal candidate will be a confident and an effective communicator, capable of fostering strong relationships at all organisational levels. Additionally, they should possess the willingness and ability to coach Equipment Owners and craft, driving enhanced performance and advancing their knowledge and skills.  

Working with us

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Shieldhall

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-04-03