Environmental Manager

Environmental Manager

Location: St. James Gate, Dublin

Role Type: 15-Months Secondment

End date to Apply: 25th September

About Us

Ever since Arthur Guinness took out a 9,000 year lease on a Dublin brewery, some 264 years ago, we have been a business that is defined by the character of the people who work here. Today the team at St James Gate is proud to continue the legacy of Arthur Guinness and in doing so continue to brew the world's most iconic brands.

St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin is Diageo's largest manufacturing facility in Ireland, and the largest stout brewery in the world, producing over three million pints of Guinness every day, supplying a growing Irish, UK and US market, and exporting to 90 global markets. Our main beer brands are Guinness, Rockshore, Hop House 13, Smithwick's and Harp. We also brew Carlsberg and Tuborg under licence for the Irish market, as well as a range of newer products, most recently Guinness 0.0. The brewery is highly utilised placing a premium on plant and process reliability.

About the Role

As the Environmental Manager reporting to the Beer Governance Manager, you will lead internal and external partners focussed on environmental management and wider sustainability. You will be the key site contact for managing the sites' relationship with environmental stakeholders (e.g., Environment Protection Agency, Utility providers, Local groups).

Key Responsibilities include:

• Handling the site's relationship with external partners such as, but not limited to, The Environmental Protection Agency, Uisce Éireann and local residents
• Ensuring that all environmental regulatory and compliance standards are met or surpassed, including ISO14001& IE licence
• Governing environmental management including the environmental management system, acting as environmental contact for all management of changes, communications, and COSHH, lead any statutory engagement.
• Supporting development of strong culture for site environmental awareness through outstanding level of employee engagement.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills and ability to communicate to all levels across the brewery and engage with a wide range of contractors on site.
• Strong project management skills with ability to lead various diverse projects, on differing timelines and have a proven track record of doing so.
• Capability to consider change management implications from a cross-site perspective, using engagement tools and techniques.
• Capability to shape the future looking at strategy, generate designs and handover implementation.
• A degree in environmental management, engineering, or equivalent experience across a range of technical/ operational / environmental roles including process operations, engineering, and project management.
• NEBOSH environmental management (good to have)
• An understanding of brewing processes, energy management & contract management but this is not crucial.

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.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Healthcare allowance
• Product allowance
• Contributary pension scheme
• Annual performance bonus
• Share options

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.

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Client-provided location(s): Dublin, Ireland

Job ID: Diageo-JR1117713

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-09-12T19:05:35