Production Team Leader

Role: Production Team Leader
Location: Leven, Scotland
Contract: Full-Time, Permanent
Work Pattern: Night Shifts, Monday - Thursday (2200 hours - 0800 hours)
Salary: Starting at 50k + Shift Allowance

Closing date - 28th January 2025

Do you enjoy leading teams and working in a fast-paced, challenging environment? Are you a leader who thrives on creating engaging employee experiences, shaping change, and driving performance? If so, this is the role for you.

Key Site and Team Facts
• 100+ Brands, 2,500 SKU's & up to 40 million cases packed a year.
• Whisky, Gin, Vodka, Rum & a wide range of ready-to-drink products.
• Over 1.25m cases per week at peak.

• 1,100 people, including 3rd parties.
• 20 lines spread over three halls, with two new lines in the next 18 months.

Key Skills
• Energy and proactivity.
• Strong leadership and communication across all levels of the business.
• Strong in process.
• Influence and diplomacy.
• Root cause analysis and problem-solving.
• Demonstratable decision-making skills in dynamic environments.

Top Accountabilities
• Lead a team of 15-20 direct reports with clear direction and motivation.
• Provide strong leadership on shift and with your team.
• Implement a continuous improvement culture, supporting all Manufacturing Excellence standards and practices.
• Mentor production operators for individual and team development, driving step-change in employee engagement.
• Deliver balanced business scorecard results to improve performance.
• Own medium- to long-term strategy for your area, including Capex and investment proposals.
• Lead operations to maximize efficiency and productivity.

Preferred Background
While not essential, experience within the FMCG sector would be highly beneficial.

Working with Us
Join us and enjoy a highly competitive remuneration package, inclusive of shift allowance.

You will also benefit from a flexible total rewards package, including:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
• Private medical insurance.
• Product allowance.
• Access to discounts at 1,000+ retailers.
• Contributory pension up to 14%.
• Company free shares upon joining.
• Sharesave/share purchase/share match options.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Annual bonus of around 10% of base salary.
• 34 days of annual leave, including bank holidays.
• Six months of paid parental leave for all employees.

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, 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.

Our ambition is to build 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, groundbreaking brands to the next level.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.