Temporary work opportunities align well with people who are looking for career flexibility and less traditional ways of working, but at the same time are people driven to deliver amazing work in high-profile situations. Magnit Direct Sourcing is a service offered by Magnit Global that provides top talent directly to industry leading clients who have flexible temporary assignments that work on a variety of projects and unlock opportunities for exciting work.  As a temporary contractor, you’ll be employed by our Managed Service Provider, Magnit Global, who manages most of our temporary contract hiring.  You will not be employed by Diageo. 

This temporary assignment will be working with Diageo. Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge, and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovate experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.  Visit Diageo’s global responsible drinking resource, Drink IQ, for information, initiatives, and ways to share best practices.  Celebrating life, every day, everywhere. 

Job Title: Project Engineer (Mechanical)

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

The role is positioned in the Global Brands Supply, Project Engineering team providing Capital Project support to Manufacturing sites including distillation, brewing, spirits and beer packaging and maturation warehousing. The overall purpose of this team is to deliver capital expenditure projects. For this role this includes:

• Development of requirement specifications in collaboration with other teams such as Operations.
  • Use specialist knowledge to deliver capex projects to correct technical specification.
  • Development of cost estimates and project schedules.
  • Managing efficient spend for capex projects.
  • Co-ordinating and managing external resources.
  • Manage the project lifecycle including capital approval, maintaining accurate financial data including spend and forecast and project closure.
  • Manage construction activities and overseeing commissioning activities.
  • Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety and environmental standards.

The role holder will have a mechanical engineering background. 

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure adherence to Health & Safety, Environmental & Quality Standards.
• Working in line with operating procedures to ensure all hazards/risks are managed and familiar with hazard/incident reporting processes
• Ensure compliance to maintenance regulatory standards within the area.
• Working closely with Operations teams, Maintenance planners and Craft groups to ensure all mandatory and requested maintenance is effectively delivered with minimal impact on production, ensuring the correct spare parts are available to carry out the maintenance tasks, in accordance with a weekly/daily asset care delivery plan.
• Respond promptly and efficiently to plant breakdown situations. Analyse, fault find and repair, then root cause problems to ensure downtime is kept to a minimum.
• Accurately record and promptly report the outcome of maintenance issues via SAP MMS to facilitate the sharing of best practice.
• Implement best practice processes and procedures maximising effectiveness and efficiency, ensuring a strong interface with all key relationship teams.
• Attend/Lead all critical tier meetings at sites – represent asset care.
• Provides feedback on mechanical improvement workstreams relative to sites or engineering. Participate with relevant stakeholders on Continuous Improvement
• Work with Operations to develop and deliver focused improvements to drive plant uptime and cost competitiveness.
• Train and coach colleagues as required.

Essential

• Excellent analytical skills with ability to drive improvements.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate to all levels across the plant.
• Excellent communication skills, good attitude and professional conduct are vital.
• Ability to organise a variety of tasks and prioritise self and others accordingly.
• Knowledge of Reliability Maintenance techniques
• Experienced in data analysis, use of applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and business systems such as SAP.
• Able to work as individual but also part of team. Have meticulous attention to detail.
• Some of our sites operate on a 24/7 basis. Jobholder may be required to provide 24hr breakdown cover as part of a pre-determined rota.
• Some of our sites will require a full UK driving license with the necessary in order to drive company vehicles.

Desirable

• Experience working in an engineering/production or service environment, technical and or/management experience an advantage, though not imperative.
• Knowledge of Manufacturing processes.

Qualifications on specific engineering techniques

Entry level requirements – skills and experience

Qualifications

• HNC level qualification in engineering or equivalent experience
• Time served Engineer with Hands-on maintenance / Engineering experience.
  
  Diversity Statement
  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 new heights 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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As a temporary contractor, you'll be employed by our Managed Service Provider, Magnit Global, who manage most of our temporary contract hiring, you will not be employed by Diageo.