Electrical Engineer

Electrical Engineer

Blythswood, Glasgow

Full-Time, 38hrs per week

Contract - 12 Month FTC

Closing Date - 5th December 2025

We are delighted to share that we have an excellent opportunity for a time-serviced Electrical Engineer to join us within our Blythswood site on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Electrical Engineer - Total Base Salary of £42,119.37 + competitive benefits package including pension, shares scheme and bonus!

Working with Us

As one of the world's leading alcoholic beverage companies, we pride ourselves on providing our employees with a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

• End of year annual bonus (dependent on performance)

• 6 months, fully paid, family leave for ALL parents - regardless of gender

• Contributary pension scheme

• Product allowance

• Free onsite parking, ensuring that your commute is hassle-free

• Opt-in private medical care for you and your family

• Share programmes and other voluntary benefits

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 best people.

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. Join us to collaborate, explore, and innovate as you build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test innovative

About the role

Blythswood Operations encompasses an exciting array of spirit production processes, from filling and disgorging to the maturation of whisky and rum. Supported by advanced warehousing techniques - including traditional storage, high-racking systems, and palletised operations - these processes ensure seamless and efficient management of the spirit at every stage, delivering excellence from start to finish.

Join us as an Electrical Engineer and play a vital role in maintaining, repairing, and improving our assets across our site that drive our operations. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Asset Maintenance & Improvement: Ensure efficient and effective maintenance, repair, problem-solving, and continuous improvement of site assets to maximise their availability and reliability.

• Safety Leadership: Prioritise health, safety, and wellbeing by working safely within your team, identifying hazards, adhering to safety procedures, and proactively preventing incidents.

• Collaboration: Work closely with operations teams, CAPEX, and other maintenance groups to optimise operational efficiency and achieve site objectives.

• Data Management: Utilise our Computerised Maintenance Management System (SAP-PM) to raise, update, and document maintenance tasks, aligning with the asset care delivery plan.

• Performance Monitoring: Partner with Operations, Site Management, and Maintenance Planners to meet and exceed Plant KPI metrics, ensuring compliance with business goals.

• Stock Control: Manage spare parts and stock items, ensuring accurate record-keeping via SAP-PM and adherence to Diageo's stock control processes.

• Continuous Improvement: Lead or support initiatives to enhance asset reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. Drive Manufacturing Excellence (TRACC) activities to meet asset care metrics.

• Root Cause Analysis: Take ownership of root cause problem-solving (RCPS) activities, providing expertise to implement long-term, effective solutions.

• Innovation & Leadership: Drive asset care improvement projects at your site and contribute to the wider asset care community to promote best practices.

Health and safety compliance is key, and you will be at the forefront of making sure this is monitored alongside ensuring both site and personal KPI's are achieved.

This is your chance to make a meaningful impact by driving operational excellence, enhancing reliability, and contributing to our ongoing success.

Shifts

As an Electrical Engineer, you will work a total of 38 hours per week between the hours of Monday to Thursday 07.00 - 15.45 and Friday 07.00 - 12.00 midday.

About you

To be successful in this role, we're looking for someone who is a time served engineer with a recognised HNC-level qualification and hands-on maintenance or engineering experience apprenticeship or equivalent.

The ideal candidate will excel in teamwork, demonstrate strong decision-making abilities, and thrive in problem-solving situations. Possess excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the site. Additionally, they will proactively suggest and evaluate improvements, striving to enhance manufacturing excellence while showcasing exceptional communication abilities.

Essential skills and experience:

• Have the drive and strong commitment to driving manufacturing excellence and demonstrate exceptional analytical skills to effectively solve problems and shown ability to drive improvements

• Well-organised, with the ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise effectively for yourself and others

• Knowledge and application of reliability maintenance techniques

• Experience in data analysis, use of applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and business systems such as SAP, desirable

• Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk principles.

• Capable of collaborating effectively within a team and working independently, demonstrating strong attention to detail.

• Flexibility and open to contributing to 24-hour breakdown support as part of a pre-scheduled rota (where applicable).

This role is a great opportunity to apply your skills and experience in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, with a focus on innovation and operational excellence.

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

Working with Us

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.

Join us, and you will be part of an organisation that embraces diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you will be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You will be part of - and help build - an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. And you will help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.

We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive culture, you will have the backing you need to test innovative ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let us unlock a brighter, more exciting future together.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world's best people. We are looking for people with curiosity, creativity, boldness, and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.]]>