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Job Description :
Job Title: Bioenergy Operations Manager
Location: Cameronbridge, Scotland
Full time and Permanent
Closing Date - 15th November
Purpose of the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Operations Manager to join Diageo’s team at Cameronbridge. This role is vital in leading and optimising the performance of our Bio-Energy plant, ensuring excellence in safety, quality, service, and cost, in line with our balanced business scorecard. The successful candidate will sponsor Tier 2 and lead Tier 3 initiatives, steering the department towards best-in-class results while promoting a culture of safety, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Performance Leadership: Lead Bio-Energy plant operations to uphold the highest standards in health, safety, environmental, and quality metrics, ensuring adherence to all regulatory and accreditation requirements.
Balanced Scorecard Management: Drive performance across the balanced scorecard by coordinating and developing departmental resources, actively leading problem-solving, and improving processes to meet targets.
MMS Programme Leadership: Champion the Manufacturing Management System (MMS) Programme to elevate standards, capabilities, and asset care, partnering closely with the Manufacturing Excellence Manager to exceed balanced scorecard targets.
Strategic Coaching and Leadership: Offer strategic guidance, coaching, and support to direct reports and their teams, fostering a culture of accountability, empowerment, and continuous improvement.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Build strong working relationships with the Business Development Manager, Site Engineering Manager, and Manufacturing Excellence Manager to align departmental strategies and objectives.
Resource and Budget Management: Handle the Bio-Energy R&M budget, evaluate equipment capacity and people needs, and develop long-term budgetary and capital plans aligned with Diageo’s 2030 sustainability goals.
Active Shop Floor Presence: Spend 50% of time on the shop floor, ensuring standards are consistently met and finding opportunities for improvement.
Key Accountabilities:
Standards and Compliance Leadership:
Own the deployment of MMS practices at Tiers 2 and 3, allocating resources to achieve departmental critical metrics, including spent wash, steam export, biogas production, and RO water targets.
Ensure adherence to Diageo’s asset care systems to maintain and improve asset quality and reliability.
Performance Optimisation and Problem-Solving:
Respond promptly to issues, drive accountability, and coach team members to identify and address underperformance.
Cultivate a culture of ownership and systemic problem-solving through the use of tools such as root cause analysis (5 Whys, DMAIC).
Change and Continuous Improvement:
Role model effective change management, presenting a compelling vision for the future.
Empower team members through performance coaching, P4G conversations, and personal development plans, holding them accountable for the same with their teams.
What You’ll Bring:
Demonstrable experience in leading high-performing teams within an engineering environment, with a solid understanding of bioenergy processes and regulatory standards.
Proven capabilities in performance management, strategic coaching, and driving continuous improvement.
Strong problem-solving abilities and the ability to foster a culture of accountability and ownership.
Collaborative skills to build strong working relationships with internal and external partners across departments.
Why Join Us?
This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of sustainable energy in one of the industry’s leading companies, playing a key role in achieving Diageo’s 2030 sustainability goals. You’ll enjoy a dynamic, hands-on work environment that values innovation, teamwork, and personal growth. If you are ready to lead the future of bioenergy engineering with Diageo at Cameronbridge, we would love to hear from you!
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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.
About Us
From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothings 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.
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 very best people.
We're looking for people with 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.
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Cameronbridge
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2024-10-31
With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
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