Job Introduction
To lead, control and develop the Packaging Area to ensure delivery of key results, in line with overall site strategy, and in compliance with all relevant legislation.
Main Responsibility
• Manage the bottling operations to the highest possible standards, ensuring continuity of management, a sound control environment, and sharing of best practice.
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders and teams to harness strong cross functional relationships that ensure strategic alignment and manufacturing capability to support the commercial and marketing needs of the business.
• Ensure the smooth functioning of the dry goods warehouses, including e.g. material receipt, efficient handling, accurate stock control, minimal damage, or waste, and provide timely supply to bottling lines.
• Ensure the efficient functioning of the vat hall, including e.g., spirit intake, tanker unloading, regular stock audits, accurate chill filtering, and timely supply to bottling lines.
• Ensure the efficient functioning of the bottling operations, crewing appropriately with skilled employees across shifts, optimizing labour utilization, promoting teamwork, ensuring employee welfare, and executing efficient changeovers to produce cased goods to quality standards and production schedule.
• Control the trials and validation processes for NPD projects to ensure on time and on cost product launches.
• Ensure the efficient function of the cased goods warehouses, control the receipt and inspection of product, drive handling efficiencies, perform accurate audits, minimise damage or decay, provide correct shipping documentation, and accurately pick orders in line with dispatch schedules.
• Maintain close control over Dufftown productivity measures and associated financial costs to deliver the best possible outcome at the lowest possible costs.
• Optimise energy/utility usage across the site bottling operations, minimise all wastage and continuously improve environmental performance.
• Manage quality control across the department to ensure full compliance to quality specifications, identifying corrective and preventative actions and following through to timely completion.
• Deliver comprehensive support to maintenance programmes (PPM and reactive), working closely to ensure stock availability of critical spares and to identify and implement improvement areas.
• Ensure equipment is maintained in proper condition across all Packaging operations, including regular machine cleaning and tidy housekeeping.
Our Ideal Candidate
Essential:
- Experience of leading manufacturing/packaging of FMCG
- Management of multiple & complex priorities
- Management of large and diverse teams
- Able to work at pace within a complex environment, with many product changovers.
- Focus on CI and OEE.
Desirable:
- Degree level qualified
- Bottling experience
- HMRC exposure
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 plan.
- 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.
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.
William Grant & Sons
