Maintenance Manager

Maintenance Manager

Littleconnell Brewery, Co.Kildare

Permanent Contract

Join our Supply Chain and 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 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. We are proud to be a global leader in beverage alcohol with an exceptional portfolio of brands, including Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Baileys, Smirnoff, Tanqueray, and many more.

A forward-thinking €200 million investment has brought an innovative, carbon-neutral brewery to life in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. This best-in-class facility is Ireland's second-largest brewing operation and a powerhouse of sustainability, running entirely on renewable energy. It's where iconic beers like Rockshore, Harp, Smithwick's, and Kilkenny are crafted for a new generation.

About the Role

With 5 direct reports, the Maintenance Manager is a key member of the site leadership team, responsible for shaping and delivering a high-performing maintenance and asset care strategy for the Littleconnell Brewery. The role plays a critical part in ensuring site assets are safe, reliable and future-ready, supporting world-class manufacturing performance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead site-wide maintenance and asset reliability across production, utilities, automation and facilities.
• Develop and deliver strategic maintenance plans that improve uptime, cost efficiency and long-term asset performance.
• Provide visible safety leadership, ensuring all maintenance activities meet regulatory, site and corporate standards.
• Lead, develop and motivate a high-performing maintenance team and contractor base.
• Work closely with Site Leadership team, Operators and Maintenance Technicians to ensure all mandatory and requested maintenance is effectively planned into the production schedule, ensuring the correct resource and spare parts are available to carry out maintenance.
• Drive continuous improvement through reliability engineering, data-led decision making and best-in-class maintenance practices.

About you

We're seeking an experienced maintenance or engineering leader with a strong background in driving asset reliability, safety and performance in a complex manufacturing environment.

You will bring:

• A relevant engineering qualification (mechanical, electrical, manufacturing or similar) and strong experience leading site maintenance activities
• Knowledge of Reliability Maintenance techniques and data analysis, use of applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and business systems such as SAP.
• Proven ability to deliver reliable, safe and compliant maintenance strategies in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Confident people leadership skills, with experience managing teams, contractors and cross-functional stakeholders
• A collaborative mindset, with the ability to influence at all levels and work effectively with operations and leadership teams
• A proactive, data-led approach to continuous improvement.

Working with us

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 make a note of this when you submit your application.

Client-provided location(s): Dublin, Ireland, Droichead Nua, Ireland

Job ID: Diageo-JR1124470

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-04-11T19:23:43