Cameronbridge Distillery Operator

Job Description:
Distillery Operator

Cameronbridge Distillery

Windygates, Leven

Full time - Permanent

Closing Date - 17/09/2023

Distillery Operator Salary - £58,977 including shift allowance + competitive benefits package which includes pension, shares scheme and bonus
- Are you looking to be a part of a team, playing a pivotal role in the end-to-end spirit process? Can you work on your own initiative and have the confidence to deliver key business decisions to support and drive site performance? Then this could be the role for you_

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 leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Champions of Diversity and Inclusion

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 everybody 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.

You can read more about our diversity and inclusion values by visiting our website here

Flexibility

This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

**Benefits**:
Join us and you’ll receive a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including
- 6 months, fully paid, Family Leave for new/expecting parents - regardless of gender
- Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
- Share options
- Contributary pension scheme
- Option to opt into private medical cover
- Annual Bonus
- Product Allowance
- 34 days annual leave

About the Role

We present a fantastic opportunity for a Distillery Operator to join the process team at Cameronbridge Distillery. As a member of the process team, you will play a pivotal role across the full whisky end to end process, from raw material intake, through to fermentation, distillation of finished spirit and effluent handling.

Bringing additional value to our multi-skilled team, you will under-take planned rotations within the team, at times requiring you to work alone. Therefore, you with possess a strong ability to rely on your own initiative to make key business decisions.

Key responsibilities:

- To play a vital role within the end-to-end process, and ensure targets are met relating to volume, quality, efficiency, energy and cost.
- Monitor the plant and identify and analyse any non-conforming deviations from the expected process parameters and take appropriate action where required.
- Ensure production targets of grain distilling volume are delivered.
- Within the self-managed team, you will be the main point of contact for issue resolution for your crew, including people and plant issues.
- You will work effectively in a team to deliver both team and site objectives
- Record and update data in a range of business systems (both electronic and on paper).
- Health & Safety is fundamental to everything that we do, and the role holder will be required to adhere to all H&S procedures, as well as demonstrating an ability to maintain a safe working environment, reporting all and any non-compliance on site.
- The role will include indirect production activity such as project teamwork, Manufacturing Excellence, RCPS, Continuous Improvement, risk compliance, CAPEX etc

This is a full-time permanent role, working on a rotational shift pattern, which includes dayshift, back-shift, nightshift, and core working hours. Given the nature of the role, some flexibility will be required, with over-time opportunities available.

About you

As Health & Safety is at the heart of everything we do, you will have a knowledge and understanding of the Health & Safety, HMRC, environmental principles and relevant legislation under which Cameronbridge operates.

You will possess a working knowledge and understanding of electronic and paper business systems as a means of communicating, recording and accessing information (particularly SAP, outlook, CE2, Intranet databases, ORBIS and LIMS sapphire). Completion or current participation in an external tech