Packaging Team Leader

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, Diageo is home to some of the world’s most iconic drinks. From Johnnie Walker and Guinness to Tanqueray, Smirnoff and Don Julio, we craft brands chosen for life’s moments — from everyday connections to landmark celebrations.

Bring your talent, curiosity and ambition, and strive for your personal best alongside people who challenge, support and learn from each other. Together, as one outstanding team, we keep learning, improving and raising the bar for our brands, our business and each other.

Join us and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more

Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships.

It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.

Work at the tier 1 level to lead and motivate the shift team to take accountability to deliver Special performance in all aspects of the balanced scorecard (Safety, Quality, Service, and Cost) and morale.

Ensure that all health, safety and environment, quality, cost and reliability standards are met and driving conformance to regulatory and accreditation standards (e.g. ISO/HACCP etc.) in packaging.

Implement significant change within a continuous improvement culture. High level of engagement and leadership and ME methods and tools

Manage the high level of day to day complexities in a complex and lively operational environment to deliver high quality products in a safe manner to plan. This will need a well-developed understanding of the future demand on their lines or area.

Lead line team in the deployment of MMS practices

Drive 5S quality standards and steadfast compliance to 5S standards.

Actively spend 80% of time on shop floor

Experience/skills required:

Upholding standards through practices

Own critical metric targets across shifts as well as for the line/process.

Set and deliver the team goals for quality, safety and waste

Follow leader standard work and ensure all team members follow standard operating procedures

Continuously drive for the next level of performance. Be ambitious on action planning and delivery

Sign off production plan

Interpret requirements e.g. Asset Care, 5S and deploy resources to make it happen.

Completely accountable for planning and driving the Asset Care agenda for the shift

Develop team morale, recognise great performance and take timely action to address under performance where vital

Problem solving for performance

Ensure accurate application of RCPS through role modelling and leadership. Raise 5 why’s as defined by agreed trigger points and lead situational problem solving on shift.

React immediately to issues as they are exposed. Own Accident reports and non-conforming product

Engage with the Daily Operational Review meetings to discuss persistent performance issues.

Leading Change for continuous improvement

Manage and build capability of the team

Influence support functions to support their improvement initiatives

Build a "high performing team”. Lead the team through defined phases of development. Identify capability needs of the team members and the team.