Performance Improvement Lead

Job Description:

- Performance Improvement Lead (Part-time/Job share)
- Mortlach Distillery, Scotland
- Permanent / 19 hours Part-time contract

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 27,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logístical, 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

As a Performance Improvement Lead in our dedicated team within the Speyside South group you’ll lead the delivery of improvement projects, in partnership with Operations and Functional teams. Ensure that any improvements implemented are standardised and sustained within operations teams (sharing standard methodology)

You’ll engage with the Daily Operational and Weekly Team meetings to provide experienced analysis of performance improvement opportunities. This will require excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills in order to inspire your team to deliver World-Class performance.

You’ll provide mentorship, advice and support to multidisciplinary teams (BL’s, Operators, ITF, Maintenance Technicians etc. ) on trouble shooting tools and ManEx practices

You’ll spend a lot of the time inspiring others and bringing about change while keeping employees engaged with the strategic changes to improve performance.

You’ll own key performance indicators targets across shifts and partner with site Operational Managers to drive performance and ensure safety is the number one priority. In order to do this, you’ll drive for next level performance by ensuring all team members follow standard operating procedures, manage the risk profile and partner with the governance team, run productive team meetings and demonstrate high levels of people management.

You’ll provide Capex Project Support - URS development, Business Paper submission to deliver against CAPEX plan, collaborate with contractors and project engineering on asset and process improvement projects.

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.

About You

We’re looking for people with character: motivated, resilient and open-minded. You’ll be commercially astute, target driven and flexible - as our work can change quickly.

You’ll be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills and be able to positively motivate and engage your fellow team members. You’ll be able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities.

You will be a strong project manager and ideally have experience working in a process environment with evidence to demonstrate ability to develop effective working relationships with partners and cross functional teams to deliver organisational effectiveness and improved business performance.

You’ll be a core part of the Speyside North group management team and as such will be required to take part in the duty management on call rotational roster.
- It’d be great if you had, or be willing to work towards a NEBOSH qualification however this is not crucial._
- It’d also be an advantage if you had experience of using Manufacturing Excellence tools._

Working with Us
- Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including annual bonus, product allowance, 6 months paid family leave, private medical insurance, share options, contributary pension scheme.
- 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 eerybody 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.
- About Us
- From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leadi