Electrical Technician

Keith, Banffshire
Diageo

Electrical Technician

Glendullan, Scotland

Full time – Permanent

Closing Date – 4th June 2023

Salary – 51,232 + competitive benefits package including pension, shares scheme and bonus!

Are you a time served electrical technician looking for a new challenge? Do you thrive in an autonomous environment that allows you to develop new skills? Are you looking for a role that enables you to be a part of a wider team, with flexibility to travel across sites and broaden your experiences?

About Us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

Benefits

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities

Opt-in private medical care for you and your family

Contributary pension scheme

6 months parental leave for ALL parents, regardless of gender!

Childcare vouchers

Annual bonus (dependent on performance)

Free shares in addition to our additional opt-in share plans

34 days annual leave

About the Role

We present a fantastic opportunity for a time-served Electrical Technician to join our Engineering Team at Glendullan Engineering Centre, Dufftown.

Playing a critical part of the maintenance team on site, you will be part of a wider network – working within 1 of 5 of Diageo’s Malt Distilling maintenance centres. Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for the maintenance, repair and improvement of all electrical assets across our malt distilling sites.

As a first response for support, you will work closely with operations teams, CAPEX and other maintenance groups to maximise efficiency of operational assets on site. This includes the emergency response to plant breakdown situations, where you will respond promptly and efficiently to analyse, fault find and repair root cause problems to ensure downtime is kept to a minimum.

Working Hours

Working hours are Mon – Thurs 08.00 – 16.30, Fri 08.00 – 14.00, and working on an on-call rota every 1 in 6 weeks to include weekends.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of efficient and effective maintenance on site, including repairs, RCPS and the improvement of software, assets and their availability.
• Work Closely with operations teams, CAPEX and other maintenance groups (Mechanical) to maximise efficiency of operational assets.
• Use of our Computerised Maintenance Management System (SAP-PM) for raising, updating, and recording of maintenance tasks in accordance with a weekly asset care delivery plan.
• To work with the Maintenance Manager, Site Management and Maintenance Planners to ensure compliance with and delivery of Plant KPI metrics.
• Deliver all electrical maintenance activities for respective engineering centre/site in accordance with a weekly/daily asset care delivery plan.
• Support Maintenance Managers and act as a point of contact for asset care Manufacturing Excellence (TRACC) metric delivery at sites. Lead workstreams that produce results in improving reliability and efficiency, whilst at the same time deliver potential cost savings to the business.
• Own and drive asset care IMPROVE activity both directly at site and within the asset care community. Actively take part in root cause problem solving (RCPS) activity and provide subject matter expertise to ensure that 100-year fixes are identified, actioned, and implemented.

Qualifications:

• HNC in Electrical Engineering
• FICA card
• Time-served apprenticeship also considered

About you

Our ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate across all levels. You will be actively engaging with partners and the Maintenance Planning Department to ensure valuable Planned Preventative Maintenance Tasks are at the core of the Maintenance Strategy. You will also be required to participate in Root Cause Problem Solving sessions.

You will be organised and self-reliant, handling your own workload and priorities while solving problems and supporting process and equipment improvement projects.

The ideal candidate will have a knowledge of PLC and SCADA systems.

If you are a time-served electrical technician (previously completed apprenticeship also considered), with excellent analytical skills and a natural ability to drive improvements then we want to hear from you!

As some of our sites operate on a 24/7 basis, the jobholder will be required to provide 24hr breakdown cover as part of a pre-determined rota, therefore a full UK driving license will be required to drive company vehicles.

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

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