Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical Engineer

Shieldhall, Glasgow

Permanent, Full-Time (38hrs per/week)

Closing Date: 06/02/2025

Are you looking to build a fulfilling career with a global leader?

Join our dynamic team at Diageo's Shieldhall Packaging site in Glasgow as Mechanical Engineer and take the next step in your career journey!

Mechanical Engineer - Base salary + shift allowance £53,969.87+ competitive benefits package including pension, shares scheme and bonus!

At Diageo, we are committed to fostering talent and providing our team members with opportunities for growth and development. We are seeking individuals who aspire to build a rewarding career with us, have ambition, and aim to become Team Leaders of the future.

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 new ideas, learn and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

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:

• Base Salary + Substantial Shift Allowance

• End of year annual bonus (dependent on performance)

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

• Competitive 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 the role

We are delighted to share that we have an excellent opportunity for a Mechanical Engineer to join us within our Shieldhall 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 Mechanical Engineer within our Packaging Team at Shieldhall, you will play a critical role in driving efficiency and making a positive impact on our operations by:

• Ensuring optimal performance: Delivering efficient and effective maintenance, repairs, troubleshooting, and asset improvements to maximise availability across the site.
• Collaborating with team members: Working closely with equipment owners and site teams to develop and implement maintenance plans while identifying and driving site-wide improvements.
• Enhancing asset performance: Designing and implementing maintenance programmes that boost asset reliability and utilisation.
• Minimising downtime: Responding promptly to plant breakdowns, identifying and repairing root causes to restore operations swiftly.
• Sharing best practices: Documenting maintenance outcomes via SAP to ensure lessons learned are communicated across teams.
• Prioritising safety and quality: Maintaining a strong commitment to health and safety compliance while upholding the highest standards of quality in your work.

Your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring our operations run smoothly, safely, and efficiently, contributing to the continued success of our Shieldhall site.

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.

Shifts

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will work 38 hours per week on an early/back shift rotation, with an obligation for occasional night shifts as required. Early shifts run from 5:30 am to 2:00 pm, while back shifts operate from 2:00 pm to midnight, Monday to Friday.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who:

• SVQ Level 3 is minimum requirement with a recognised hands-on apprenticeship or equivalent
• Shown hands-on experience within a production environment and able to demonstrate understanding of asset performance and maintenance.
• Experience in data analysis, use of applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and business systems such as SAP
• Can work well within a team as well as the ability to make effective decisions and thrive in situations where they can solve problems.
• Holds strong interpersonal and leadership skills with an ability to communicate with all levels across the site.
• Able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities. With a strive to make a positive difference to manufacturing excellence and show your excellent communication skills.

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'll be part of an organisation that embraces 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 - an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. And you'll 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'll have the backing you need to test new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let's 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 very best people. We're 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.]]>