Job Description :

Mechanical Engineer

Menstrie, Scotland

Closing Date: 18/08/2025

Salary of £54,227.89 including shift allowance + competitive benefits package with pension, shares scheme and bonus.

Our exciting Menstrie site sits within our Scotch category as part of our Maturation footprint. Menstrie plays a significant role in the network with warehousing and filling operations. The site was built in the 1950s and has 19 warehouses with 57 cells, holding over a million whisky casks. Our palletised whisky filling store fills 1.9 million litres per week.

About the Role

As a Mechanical Engineer at our Menstrie site, you’d be responsible for the maintenance, repair and improvement of all mechanical assets across the site. Working closely with operations teams, CAPEX and other maintenance groups you will ensure the delivery of efficient and effective maintenance, repair, problem solving and improvement of assets and their availability.

What you’ll be doing:

Working with Operations to develop and deliver focused improvements to drive plant uptime and cost competitiveness, you will provide feedback on mechanical improvement workstreams relative to sites or engineering. Participate with relevant collaborators on Continuous Improvement.

Key Responsibilities include:

Use of our Computerized 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 standard process.

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-Fri)

Backshift – 2pm – 10-pm (Mon-Thurs), 2pm – 9pm (Friday)

Night shift – 10pm – 6am (Sunday – Friday)

About You

As a time served Engineer with hands-on maintenance /engineering experience Our ideal candidate will have well developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate across all levels!

Are you organised and self-reliant, able to handle your own workload and priorities while solving problems and supporting process and equipment improvement projects? Can you bring with you good organisational skills and are able to work both autonomously as well within a team? If so tis might be the perfect next role for you!

Key skills and qualifications

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

Experienced in data analysis, use of applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and business systems such as SAP

Working with us

Flexibility is key to success in our business so please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And crafting an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.

We believe the most diverse and inclusive culture makes for a better business and a better world.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base.

Around the world we have a number of inclusive Business and Employee Resource Groups known as BRGs and ERGs. These influential groups, made up of our people, represent various viewpoints, experiences and communities who generate thought-provoking work to enhance our business and workplace, creating a sense of belonging and opportunities for all.

Join us, and be part of an organisation that embraces diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you will be encouraged and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of — and help build — an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Join us to collaborate, explore, and innovate as you build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people. We're looking for people with curiosity, creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Menstrie Bond

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-08-01