Job Description :
Mechanical Engineer
Alloa, Scotland
Closing Date: 27/05/2025
Mechanical Engineer - £54,227.89 including shift allowance + competitive benefits package with pension, shares scheme and bonus.
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 role
As a Mechanical Engineer at our Cambus site, you’ll be responsible for the maintenance, repair and improvement of all mechanical assets across the site. You will work closely with operations teams, CAPEX and other maintenance groups to maximise efficiency of operational assets and will ensure the delivery of efficient and effective maintenance, repair, problem solving and improvement of assets and their availability.

What you’ll be doing:

• Use of our Computerised Maintenance Management System (SAP-PM) for raising, updating, and recording of maintenance tasks in accordance with a weekly asset care delivery plan.
• Support Maintenance Managers & Business Leaders and act as a point of contact for asset care Manufacturing Excellence (TRACC) metric delivery at sites.
• Ensure compliance to maintenance regulatory standards within the area.
• Respond promptly and efficiently to plant breakdown situations. Analyse, fault find and repair, then root cause problems to ensure downtime is kept to a minimum.
• Accurately record and promptly report the outcome of maintenance issues via SAP MMS to facilitate the sharing of best practice.
• Provide feedback on mechanical improvement workstreams relative to sites or engineering. Participate with relevant stakeholders on Continuous Improvement
• Work with Operations to develop and deliver focused improvements to drive plant uptime and cost competitiveness.
• Train and coach colleagues as required

Shifts
You will work a 3-shift rotation. Occasionally weekend work will be required at an overtime rate to complete maintenance out with production. Shift patterns are as follows:
Early shift – 6am- 2pm (Mon-Thurs), 6am – 11.45am (Friday)
Backshift – 2pm – 1-pm (Mon-Thurs), 11.30am – 5.30pm (Friday)
Night shift – 10pm – 6am (Sunday – Friday)
What you’ll bring
You’ll be a time served Engineer with hands-on maintenance /engineering experience Our ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate across all levels.

You will be organised and self-reliant, handling your own workload and priorities while solving problems and supporting process and equipment improvement projects.

• HNC level qualification in engineering or equivalent experience
• Excellent analytical skills with ability to drive improvements
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate to all levels across the plant
• Ability to organise a variety of tasks and prioritise self and others accordingly
• Knowledge of Reliability Maintenance techniques
• Experienced in data analysis, use of applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and business systems such as SAP
• Able to work as individual but also part of team. Have meticulous attention to detail

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!
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Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Cambus
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-05-1

• Use of our Computerised Maintenance Management System (SAP-PM) for raising, updating, and recording of maintenance tasks in accordance with a weekly asset care delivery plan.
• Support Maintenance Managers & Business Leaders and act as a point of contact for asset care Manufacturing Excellence (TRACC) metric delivery at sites.
• Ensure compliance to maintenance regulatory standards within the area.
• Respond promptly and efficiently to plant breakdown situations. Analyse, fault find and repair, then root cause problems to ensure downtime is kept to a minimum.
• Accurately record and promptly report the outcome of maintenance issues via SAP MMS to facilitate the sharing of best practice.
• Provide feedback on mechanical improvement workstreams relative to sites or engineering. Participate with relevant stakeholders on Continuous Improvement
• Work with Operations to develop and deliver focused improvements to drive plant uptime and cost competitiveness.
• Train and coach colleagues as require