Production Supervisor

About us

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

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

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 this role

Operate Lead and execute production process within budget and output targets to meet customer requirements and standards. Full accountability for ensuring safety, customer quality, cost and delivery requirements are met. Responsible for developing an enthusiastic, motivated, and flexible team by building teamwork and relationships in operation area with a psychology safe environment to ensuring that Health, Safety and Environmental requirements are adhered to. Manage the team on conducting best practice, create and provide proper procedures that is align with actual practice in shopfloor. Develop team in conducting root cause analysis in reducing or avoiding downtime. Provide and or accommodate coaching, mentoring, and training for the team. Conduct loss and waste analysis to implement continuous improvement, continuous set up time reduction and 5S implementation. Leading by example to responsible on Tier 1 implementation within the site and shift to deliver world class performance in all aspects of Level 1 KPI (Safety, Quality, Service, Cost).

You will be responsible for:

1. Upholding standards through practices

• Responsible to establish Diageo’s Governance Standards in respective area and implement MAKE codification thoroughly

• Plan, execute and work with cross functions to provide day to day resources to achieve MAKE KPI's.

• Lead and work with cross function the change management processes for MAKE Function.

• Lead 5S implementation to follow 5S standard.

• Prioritize safety by setting high standard in daily operation, conducting risk assessment, reviewing daily Permit to Work and Job Safety Analysis by internal and external workers.  

2. Problem Solving for Performance

• Respond immediately to issues as they are exposed.

• Coach direct reports to identify areas of under-performance.

• Encourage a breakthrough mind-set to problems faced and empower people to take ownership.

3. Managing Change for Continuous Improvement

• Lead and work with cross function for management of change. 

• Conduct loss and waste analysis in proper range of time to reduce waste and increase productivity

• Manage setting up time reduction in respective area to increase proper way of working in a more optimized time

The required qualifications for this role are:

• Bachelor’s degree (Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Engineering)

• At least 3 years’ experience in manufacturing process (preferably in FMCG) with a proven track record in managing people and or small teams and cross functional team working

• Knowledge of manufacturing excellence tools and techniques such as 5S, set up time reduction, reliability centered maintenance.

• Knowledge of Diageo saving and productivity as part of AOP process

• Working knowledge of SAP.

• Experience of team coaching for success

• Experience in ISO/HACCP certification

• Knowledge and understanding of Continuous Improvement methodologies (DMAIC, PDCA)

• Track record of waste and cost saving opportunities

• Track record of good engagement and communication skills

• Proficient in use of standard business (MS Office) and Diageo packages

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you and we’ll work together so that you’re supported from day one.

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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