Production Operator
Diageo
**Job Description :**
**Who are we?**
Diageo Australia has one simple, but focused mission – to Celebrate Life, Every Day, Everywhere. In order to do this, we are supported by our incredible portfolio of market leading brands, some of which are in your home now. As the largest spirits manufacturer in the world, with brands including Johnnie Walker®, Smirnoff®, Gordon’s®, Baileys®, Captain Morgan® and our homegrown icons Bundaberg Rum® and UDL®, we are focused on bringing consumers together, giving them opportunities to celebrate life, every day, everywhere.
**What about the role?**
We are getting busy in the lead up to peak season! As an Operator at the Huntingwood site, you will work within a team to achieve the manufacturing targets and KPIs. Your role will cover the entire site with a key focus on safe and efficient operation and maintenance of production equipment. The expectation is that, over time, you will be trained on equipment across the site and may be assigned to any of those areas as business needs dictate. The site may operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our team are on shifts across morning, afternoon and night.
**What will this role look like for you?**
As a key member of the Huntingwood team, you will:
+ Operate and maintain the production equipment whilst creating a safe environment for yourself and your colleagues;
+ Monitor the quality of our products;
+ Manage and maintain the production lines including equipment monitoring;
+ Ensure accurate completion of production records;
+ Ensure that best practice is being adhered to on each one of your shifts; and
+ Machine operation - from simple to complex machine centres undertaking sophisticated operation.
**What will you bring to the table?**
+ Experience operating packaging and/or processing equipment within a similar FMCG environment;
+ Experience using SAP;
+ Ability to quickly analyse problems in a structured way to come up with solutions to fix issues and make improvements;
+ Demonstrates situational awareness and ability to plan and optimise a production process;
+ An understanding of basic mechanical and electrical concepts as well as packaging technologies;
+ General knowledge of workplace health and safety/OH&S practices; and
+ Intermediate computer knowledge and the ability to adapt to new technologies.
**What are the benefits?**
We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this. At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision.
You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits including bonus, flexible leave entitlements and product allowance as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy, volunteering days and workplace giving, and subscriptions to mental health and fitness platforms.
**Our commitment to inclusion and diversity**
We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.
Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location.
Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from apply!
**Worker Type :**
Regular
**Primary Location:**
Huntingwood
**Additional Locations :**
**Job Posting Start Date :**
2025-06-10
With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.
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