Process Technician

Process Technician

St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin

Both permanent and 12m FTC positions available

Closing date 3rd November 2015

Process Technician - Competitive benefits package with pension, shares scheme, bonus and more!

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.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We're committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we'll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the Team

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, Guiness 0.0, Rockshore, Hop House 13, Smithwick's and Harp. The brewery produces multiple SKUs which are either kegged on site or transported in bulk tankers to packaging sites in Runcorn and Belfast.

About the Role

As a Process Technician in our Tanker Station, you'll play a pivotal role maintaining customer service levels through the on-time and in-full dispatch of road tankers from St. James's Gate to our packaging sites in Belfast, Runcorn and beyond.

You'll oversee the operation of respective process control system and procedures. Additionally, you will play a role in ensuring compliance to food safety and quality standards, ensuring that we deliver quality product to our customers every time.

Key responsibilities include:

• Carry out all necessary in-tanker quality analysis to ensure compliance to food safety and quality standards.

• Cleaning, filling and importing tankers using our process control system

• Work closely with stakeholders in our brewing operations, planning and logistics teams to ensure any risks to our customer service are mitigated.

• Manage production plans and key performance targets, responding in a timely manner to keep the process on track.

• Assess & optimise process performance/capability on an ongoing basis and look for opportunities to improve performance.

• Responsible for changeovers including CIPS - Optimisation, provide changeover support across machines and lines

• Experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably from FMCG

• Technically savvy, experience using SAP would be an advantage

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

• High attention to detail and ability to prioritise workloads

• A strong commitment to Health & Safety