Electrical Engineer
Shieldhall, Glasgow
Permanent Contract
Closing Date: 09/03/2025
Electrical Engineer - Base salary including shift allowance £53,969.87 + competitive benefits package including pension, shares scheme and bonus.
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.
Join our dynamic team at Shieldhall, where we're at the heart of packaging Scotch malt whiskies, white spirits, and ready-to-drink brands to supply over 170 countries around the world.
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 ideas, learn, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
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About the role
We're excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a time-served Electrical Engineer to join our dynamic Supply Chain and Manufacturing team at Shieldhall!
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 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It's an intricate and sophisticated operation that's the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.
As an Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for the maintenance, repair, and improvement of site assets to ensure optimal performance. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact and play a key role in the success of our team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead problem-solving efforts to address electrical system issues and improve asset reliability.
- Mentor the team on electrical systems, best practices, and safety standards.
- Collaborate closely with operations, CAPEX, and maintenance teams to drive performance, improvement, and efficiency.
- Ensure that all requested maintenance tasks are delivered with minimal disruption to production.
- Lead the availability of necessary spare parts in line with the weekly/daily asset care delivery plan.
- Use SAP-PM (our Computerised Maintenance Management System) to raise, update, and track all maintenance tasks as per the asset care delivery plan.
This role will allow you to contribute significantly to the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations while ensuring the continued reliability of our electrical systems.
Health and safety compliance is key, and you will be at the forefront of making sure this is supervised alongside ensuring both site and personal KPI's are achieved.
Shifts
As a Weekend Electrical Engineer, you will work a total of 38 hours per week working double day shifts, alternating weekly,
- Week 1, 5:30 AM - 2:00 PM
- Week 2, 2:00 PM - 12:00 AM
About You
To thrive in this role, we're looking for someone who brings:
- A time-served qualification, such as a recognised SVQ, hands-on apprenticeship, or equivalent.
- Shown experience in a production environment, with a clear understanding of asset performance and maintenance.
- A background in data analysis and familiarity with tools like Excel, Word, and SAP (desirable).
- Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk principles.
- The ability to collaborate effectively within a team, while also making sound decisions and solving problems independently.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to communicate clearly across all levels of the site.
- A proactive attitude, eager to contribute ideas for improvement and drive positive change in manufacturing practices.
At Diageo, we value skills and experience, and we encourage applicants from a diverse set of backgrounds to apply. If you're passionate about applying your expertise in a packaging environment, we'd love to hear from you!
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
- 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 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 the next level 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.