Operations Shift Manager

Title: Operations Shift Manager

This is an on-site position at our new Diageo Plant in Hope Hull Alabama.

About Diageo:

Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness!

Our performance ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. We are proud of the brands we make and the enjoyment they give to millions. We are passionate about alcohol playing a positive role in society as part of a balanced lifestyle. It is central to our purpose to celebrate life, every day, everywhere!

Diageo is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (DGE). For more information about Diageo, our people, our brands, and performance, visit us at www.diageo.com. Visit Diageo's global responsible drinking resource, www.DRINKiQ.com, for information, initiatives, and ways to share standard methodology.

Diageo Montgomery:

As part of its efforts to build an increasingly resilient and efficient supply network, premium drinks company Diageo North America announced plans to open a new manufacturing and warehousing facility in Montgomery, Alabama. The 360,000 square foot facility will have a multi-million case annual production capacity for Diageo’s leading beverage alcohol brands. This site will enhance the company’s North America supply chain operations and support future growth for the company’s export business.

The new facility, which will be referred to as ‘Diageo Montgomery,’ will provide a new point of operations closer to the company’s beverage distributors in the southern region. The site’s strategic location is expected to reduce required road travel, significantly helping to further mitigate carbon emissions associated with logistics operations. The new facility will also employ state-of-the-art technology for more efficient water and energy usage across the site.

Context/Scope:

Position requires a thorough understanding of all aspects of production operations including:

• Ensuring Zero Harm across all aspects of the business
• Quality – 100% Adherence to global finished product standards
• Improving delivery, through application of Manufacturing Excellence tools and techniques - MMS practices
• Full delivery of production schedule week on week
• Asset care plan delivery to ensure the highest levels of maintenance for manufacturing equipment
• Deliver or exceed budget targets & tracking with focused critical metric delivery
• Labor contract and regulatory requirements.
• Team leadership and individual development for all team members

Financial Responsibility

• Eradicate any risk of personal, brand or environmental harm – ZERO Harm. Fully use the SIRC program of risk assessment, escalation & resolution
• Responsible for achievement of labor & waste cost targets. Improving operational efficiency (OEE > 70%) of RFT (right first time) output
• Minimize the number & cost of quality defects. Reduce quality defects to <1,000 ppm
• Budget Management - Labor management, Overheads, and Cost of quality targets

Purpose of Role:

• A key leader in attaining our ambition of being the best FMCG Supply chain in the world
• Provide leadership for the assigned crew in a 24X7 operation
• Responsible for safe execution of the production plan to required standard of quality delivery.
• Responsible for creating & evolving the optimum Performance Culture, using Manufacturing Excellence tools. Ensure strict adherence to the MMS system.