Job Description :
Operator - Warehousing & Blending
Blythswood, Glasgow
Permanent, Full-Time (38 hours per/week)
Closing Date, 10.03.2025
Are you looking for a role that gives you a longer weekend with a 12-noon finish on Fridays, while also offering amazing career growth opportunities? This could be the role for you.
Operator – Base salary £34,222.06 + competitive benefits package including pension, shares scheme and bonus!
At Diageo, we are committed to fostering talent and providing our team members with opportunities for growth and development. We are seeking individuals who aspire to build a rewarding career with us, have ambition, and aim to become Team Leaders of the future.
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.
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 new ideas, learn and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
About the role
We are delighted to share that we have an excellent opportunity for an Operator to join us within our Blythswood site, Glasgow.
Blythswood Operations involves a comprehensive range of spirit production processes, including filling, disgorging, and maturation, with a focus on both whisky and rum. These operations are supported by warehousing techniques that include traditional storage methods, high-racking systems, and palletised operations, ensuring efficient management of the spirit throughout each stage.
As part of a self-managed team, you will be responsible for the efficient daily operation of processes within your area, prioritising health and safety in line with Diageo standards. You will play a key role in ensuring the safety and well-being of colleagues, staying aware of hazards, site procedures, and proactively preventing incidents.
Operators have the key responsibility to ensure the safe movement and handling of spirits by closely following established process procedures. They will be required to support a range of activities including spirit filling, warehousing operations, disgorging processes and empty cask handling to ensure targets are met relating to safety, quality, service and cost.
Duties will include:
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Safe movement of spirit casks manually or with handling devices, ensuring timely delivery to disgorging units as per schedule.
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Maintain product integrity in alignment with quality assurance standards and follow warehouse and disgorging schedules.
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Operate barcode readers for accurate stock updates and data transfer to meet R&C accounting requirements.
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Apply and uphold all safety, environmental, and R&C standards and procedures.
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Communicate efficiently within the team to ensure smooth warehouse operations and promptly address any schedule deviations or emergencies.
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Support business strategies and demonstrate Diageo values through positive actions and teamwork.
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Train, support and coach colleagues as required
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 such as production quality and HMRC compliance.
Shifts
As an Operator you will work 38 hours a week on the dayshift. Working core hours Monday to Thursday 07.00 - 15.45 and Friday 07.00 - 12.00.
About You
To be successful in this role, we’re looking for someone who:
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Can work well within a team as well as the ability to make effective decisions and thrive in situations where they can solve problems.
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Holds strong interpersonal and leadership skills with an ability to communicate with all levels across the site.
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Has ambition and aim to support Team Leaders and aspire to become a Team Leader of the future.
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Able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities. With a strive to make a positive difference to manufacturing excellence and show your excellent communication skills.
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Flexible approach to working hours as may be required to work overtime in busy periods to support production demands or meet critical deadlines.
Skills and proficiency are things that matter to Diageo, and so we’d love to hear from candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and experience who are passionate about transferring those skills and experience into a Packaging environment.
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:
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Early Friday finish
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End of year annual bonus (dependent on performance)
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6 months, fully paid, family leave for ALL parents - regardless of gender
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Competitive contributary pension scheme
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Product allowance
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Free onsite parking, ensuring that your commute is hassle-free
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Opt-in private medical care for you and your family
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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 listened to, is a crucial part of this. We believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world. We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.
Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces 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 — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.
We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive culture, you’ll have the backing you need to test new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let’s unlock a brighter, more exciting future together.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people. We're looking for people with curiosity, 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:
J&B Blythswood
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-02-25
What We Do
Diageo's official LinkedIn account. We're a global leader in premium drinks, across spirits and beer, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of the industry.
With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, our portfolio has remarkable breadth. From centuries-old names to exciting new entrants, and global giants to local legends, we're building the very best brands out there, and with over 30,000 talented people based in over 135 countries, we're a truly global company. With such diversity, we're able to truly represent our broad consumer base and think differently about the future.
To maintain our position as leaders in the alcoholic beverage market, we always invest in the future and are mindful of the impact we have. Because just like the legends of our past, we're here to raise the bar – for people as well as the planet
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