Craft Engineer

Craft Engineer

Runcorn, GUINNESS Beer Packaging Site

Full-time - Permanent

Salary: £41,469.61 + 35% shift allowance, share plan, competitive pension, annual bonus, and other additional benefits.

The successful candidate will require the ability to change to different shifts with minimum notice to suit business needs.

Join our Beer Manufacturing Team

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 27,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It's an intricate and sophisticated operation that's the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

We operate Guinness packaging facilities at Marshalls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Runcorn, in North West England, producing canned, bottled and kegged product for Ireland, UK and export markets. Significant investment is underway at both of these locations.

This role is site based at Runcorn which is an 18 Acre site running a 24/7 Operation with 4 rotational crews. It has 2 Bottling, 2 Canning lines and 1 Kegging production line. There are 90+ SKUs with 16 different Beer/Liquid types covering producing on average 23million cases of product per annum

About the role

As a Flexible Craft Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role providing maintenance and continuous improvement skills to deliver and improve on safety, quality, delivery, productivity, cost and asset care.

You'll be accountable to ensure all assigned Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules are carried out at the defined frequency and completed to the required standard to ensure downtime is minimized.

Being responsible for supporting installation, commissioning, and testing within the area as the need arises, you'll work closely with and coach operators, engineers and team leaders to perform autonomous maintenance tasks, machine set ups optimisation and support growth in equipment capability as required.

You'll engage in start of shift meetings and performance-based team meetings to raise and address any persistent performance issues and be proactive in approach, leading active solution driven initiatives with the wider engineering team.

Health and safety compliance is key, and you'll be at the forefront of making sure this is monitored alongside other KPI's and targets.

Key Accountabilities

• At all times adhere to Diageo health and safety, environmental and food safety standards, and work to all applicable legislative procedures.
• Maintain a safe and organised workplace environment through adherence to the Safety and 5S MMS practices.
• Provide crafts resource (electrical and mechanical) to the Operations Team
• Make full use of SAP - SAP reporting & recording completion.
• Raise 5 why's as defined by agreed trigger points. Work with Operators and team leaders to play a proactive role in situational problem solving on shift. Fixing problems and finding solutions
• Participate in line improvement projects.
• Anticipate issues and be more proactive in approach.

About you

You must have completed a recognised apprenticeship or gained a mechanical or electrical Higher National Certificate level qualification or equivalent within an FMCG industry.

We're looking for someone who can work well within a team as well as the ability to make effective decisions and thrive in situations where they can solve problems.

You'll have excellent communication skills and be able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities. You'll have the drive to make a positive difference to manufacturing excellence.

You'll be a time served mechanical or electrical Engineer with an understanding of the opposite core skill and have relevant qualifications and demonstrable knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk principles.

Client-provided location(s): Runcorn, United Kingdom

Job ID: Diageo-JR1115838

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-08-08T23:40:03