**Job Description :** **Site Operations Manager** **Brora, Scotland** **Permanent Contract** **Mon-Fri – Full Time** **Closing date: 30th January 2025** Accommodation and relocation assistance may be available. **About us** With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. Join us to create a career worth celebrating. **About the Function** 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. 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 the Site Operations Manager at the iconic Brora Distillery, you’ll be central to the next chapter of our site’s 200-plus year history, overseeing all distilling operations, ensuring they are completed safely and efficiently. The Site Operations Manager will take the lead role in ensuring that all aspects of site operations are set-up to be able to deliver our world-class performance aspirations across a suite of Safety, Compliance, Environmental, Quality, Service and Cost metrics. You’ll lead the Daily Operational and participate in Weekly Team meetings to provide experienced analysis of performance improvement opportunities. This will require excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills in order to encourage your team to deliver outstanding performance. Alongside managing day-to-day operations, you’ll create and own the vision for the site. As an inspiring leader you’ll drive a strong safety culture whilst engaging with the strategy to maintain quality and improve performance. 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 provide mentorship, advice and support to multidisciplinary teams (Business Leaders, Operators, Maintenance Technicians etc.) on trouble shooting tools and Manufacturing Excellence practices. You’ll support your team and peers through coaching, helping you deliver results through others. In this role you’ll sit as part of the Leadership Team for the Brora & Clynelish Group, supporting the development and delivery of the Group’s broader strategy. You’ll provide on-call and duty manager support on a rota basis. Brora Distillery is also a Luxury Brand Home, host to private clients and visitors from around the world. In your capacity as Site Operations Manager, and as a passionate advocate for Whisky, you’ll work closely with the Brand Home Host to bring to life the craft that goes into making the legendary spirit of Brora. You’ll meet and engage with VIP clients on tours, talking them through the production journey and sharing with them what makes Brora so special, for example by guiding them through nosing sessions or showcasing the care and attention that went into the reopening of the site. As such, you’ll enjoy a key role in continuing to build this iconic brand. **About You** + You will be a true leader and role model. With a relevant background in operations management in a high-qualityprocess industry with demanding production, efficiency and financial targets. + You’ll have the ability to inspire your team through purpose to deliver excellence across a suite of KPIs. + We are looking for a highly skilled operational leader who has a consistent track record of driving team engagement and delivering continuous improvementthrough the guide application of Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques. + You will be a role model for safety leadership, with a good understanding of health, safety and environmental requirements for production areas, ideally holding a NEBOSH qualification. + You’ll be determined to play a lead role in the site’s contribution to the delivery of Diageo’s Society 2030 ambitions including supporting the global sustainability agenda among other vitalgoals. + You’ll be a great communicator and comfortable public speaker. + You’ll be passionate about sustainability and owing critical targets around water usage and carbon emissions. You’lldeliver local projects to meet and exceed our sustainability goals. + You’ll be able to prioritise your time and workload effectively. + The role will require strategic planning skillsin order toin achieve the sites production targets andthe delivery of the agreed financial budget. + Ideally, you’ll have experience in manufacturing excellence and world-class manufacturing leadership and principles. + Due to the nature of this role, you'll be required to hold a full driving licence. **Flexible Working Statement:** Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one. **Rewards & Benefits Statement:** We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including: + Share schemes. + Pension - Diageo pays up to 14%. + Product Allowance + 10% Annual Bonus + And many more! **Diversity statement:** 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.  _If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application._ **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Clynelish **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-01-15 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. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? 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