Job Introduction
We are seeking to attract a driven senior engineering professional to join our leadership team within our global spirits facility based in Girvan, Scotland. You will be empowered to deliver the capital programme on the largest whisky distillery in Scotland, bringing leadership, direction and functional expertise to the team.
You will Provide leadership for the function, establishing plans focused on building employee capability and driving employee engagement through implementation of high-performance work systems to achieve exceptional business results.
Delivering strategic cost savings and improvement projects across the site, you will also be part of the exciting developments in building the business case for plant investment and upgrades.
Main Responsibility
- Ensure that all Distilling & Technical (D&T) project change activities are fully compliant with all legislative requirements (health, safety, compliance and engineering) and industry standards.
- Execute the Distilling and Technical Engineering Strategies including the development and implementation of the rolling 5 year Capital Investment Strategy across WG&S Operations.
- Optimise the efficiency of all WG&S sites in order to maintain and develop operational assets in support of the WG&S Operations Strategy.
- Develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders/contractors to ensure consistency of knowledge and understanding of Capital Investment Strategy, and to ensure strategic alignment of change processes to business needs and customer expectations.
- Develop comprehensive Engineering expertise in WG&S, utilising this to identify and assess risks, issues and opportunities and provide Technical/ Engineering input and analysis to support commercial business decision making.
- Advise and support the Distilleries Engineering Project Director in the ongoing development and continuous improvement of best practice technical activities so that effectiveness and efficiency are maximised.
- Oversee the budget/spend across portfolio of Engineering projects to ensure delivery is on time and within budget. Mitigating risk to minimise impact on project timelines, budget and scope.
- Leads, motivates and develops their team in line with the Company Values to maximise employee engagement and demonstrates behaviours in line with our diversity and inclusion aim.
Our Ideal Candidate
You will be a career focused, highly motivated Engineering Leader who is experienced working with a professional team and senior stakeholders in an operational environment.
With a background in project management experience in capital project delivery, you will hold a degree in Engineering or a related discipline and ideally hold chartered engineering status.
You will have demonstrable experience in an Engineering leadership role within a fast paced Manufacturing environment with an ability to lead multi disciplinary teams and engage and influence senior stakeholders.
Experience in CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Systems) is desirable.
What we can offer you
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plans.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
- Due to the coronavirus outbreak we are keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees, while continuing to protect our product. To reduce the risk access to our sites is limited to those essential to our production. All other employees are currently working from home.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.
We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.
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