Engineering Manager

Job title: Engineering Shift Manager

Location: Fox & Geese, Dublin 22

Contract: Permanent Role

Hours of work: This position requires working day shifts from 6am to 2pm and evening shifts 2pm to 10pm on alternating weeks.

About Irish Distillers

Irish Distillers is Ireland’s leading supplier of spirits and wines and producer of some of the world’s most well-known and successful Irish whiskeys. Led by Jameson, our brands are driving the success of Irish whiskey globally. Jameson is the world’s fastest-growing Irish whiskey, achieving +10% net sales growth globally in FY23. Our brands are exported to 130+ markets around the world.

Irish Distillers was formed in 1966, when a merger took place between John Power & Son, John Jameson & Son, and Cork Distilleries Company. In 1988 Irish Distillers joined Pernod Ricard, gaining access to unprecedented levels of investment and an extensive global distribution network.

In 2022, we announced our ambition to significantly reduce carbon emissions across our distilling operations at Midleton Distillery in addition to our plans to invest in a new distillery on a site adjacent to our existing operations in Midleton.

We employ over 800 people across our operations in Cork and Dublin.

About Pernod Ricard

Pernod Ricard is a worldwide leader in the spirits and wine industry, blending traditional craftsmanship, state-of-the-art brand-building, and global distribution technologies. Our prestigious portfolio of premium to luxury brands includes Absolut vodka, Ricard pastis, Ballantine’s, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater gin, Malibu liqueur and Mumm and Perrier-Jouët champagnes. Our mission is to ensure the long-term development of our brands with full respect for people and the environment, while empowering our employees around the world to be ambassadors of our purposeful, inclusive, and responsible culture of authentic conviviality. Pernod Ricard’s consolidated sales amounted to € 12,137 million in fiscal year FY23.

We are currently recruiting an Engineering Shift Manager to join our Engineering team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, this is an onsite position based at Fox & Geese site, Dublin 22.

The role's objective is to support the engineering manager in leading and developing electrical maintenance teams. This includes executing the Packaging maintenance program to ensure equipment reliability aligns with modern manufacturing standards. The position involves implementing modern processes, procedures, and standardization to continuously improve equipment performance using lean principles. The ideal candidate should be capable of challenging the status quo and coaching the maintenance teams to deliver reliable engineering and lean operations. They will also play a key role in influencing transformational change, fostering a culture of accountability within the engineering department, and striving to make the Fox and Geese site the best in terms of safety, quality, and productivity among Pernod Ricard affiliates.

Role and Responsibilities

Purpose of the Role

• Assist the Engineering manager in leading and developing the mechanical and electrical maintenance teams in the execution of the Packaging maintenance program delivering equipment reliability in line with modern manufacturing standards.
• Deliver modern and effective reliability/asset care processes and procedures and standardization, continuously improving equipment performance in line with Lean principles, standards and systems.
• Capable of challenging the status quo and have the ability to challenge, develop and coach the maintenance teams in the delivery of the engineering reliability and lean operations strategy.
• Key influencer at a cross functional level.
• Must lead the maintenance team to best in class (site and company) in Lean Principlies.
• Investing in and developing a culture of accountability within the engineering department.
• Play a pivotal role in influencing transformational change
• Help Fox & Geese become best in class Pernord Ricard Affiliate in terms of safety, quality and productivity.

Compliance

• Every employee has a duty of care to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.
• Ensure compliance and comply with all safety, health, environment, and quality legislation, procedures and standards in the workplace.
• Are responsible for ensuring all team members are competent to operate equipment and perform all duties safely (risk assessment competent) and according to maintenance regulatory standards, legislation, and site procedures and standards.
• Champion and embed a safe work environment.

People Engagement and Leadership

• Be Real, Be Remarkable, Be Responsible, role-modelling the Irish Distillers Values.
• Embrace and support a competitive and collaborative High-Performance team mindset.
• Leads and executes the deployment of Asset Care within the packaging hall with crafts and operators.
• Team building, mentoring and coaching skills.
• Must be able to build relationships with plant personnel, communicate in an effective, interesting and persuasive way with employees at all levels, must be comfortable and successful in a changing environment, taking initiative in detecting and anticipating problems and opportunities for the company and providing appropriate recommendations. 
• Coach and support craft and line teams to deliver performance and increase reliability of machines.
• Support and champion the capability development of the maintenance team.

Continuous Improvement

• Champion an agile continuous improvement mindset in IDL, Production and your direct team.
• Lead in the transition to a lean manufacturing principle and structured problem -solving culture within asset care and equipment reliability.
• Monitor equipment performance/downtime and analyse trends to continuously improve reliability.
• Be aware of loss and waste within the area. At all times work to reduce and eliminate waste and identify opportunities to improve business processes.
• Lead and participate in improvement projects using relevant Lean principle tools. 
• Follow problem solving approaches as detailed in the Focused Improvement work practice.
• The role must play a key part in actively leading all site teams to reduce waste, improve customer satisfaction, reduce costs and improve utilization and cycle times.
• Adhere to leader standard work for the role.

Job Specific

• Lead daily operational review meetings.
• Attend and support Tier 1 and Tier 2 daily site meetings.
• Collaborate closely with site wide Stakeholders including Bottling Operations and Quality Teams.
• Support Continuous Improvement initiatives through A3’s.
• Develop and execute the Asset Care strategy for bottling operations with crafts and operators.
• Act boldly to address team discipline and performance issues. Coach team members to deal with areas of under-performance.
• Manage all aspects of people management responsibilities.
• Support team level employee relations challenges, issues and/or concerns in pragmatic and constructive manner.
• Ensure maintenance, asset care, KPI’s achieved and exceeded.
• Responsible for the execution of all asset care and procedures within bottling operations
• Review work completed by asset care technicians to ensure completeness and quality.
• Assist and support the development of the maintenance and reliability program.
• Assist in the asset care budget management within the area, under the direction of the Engineering Manager and ensure most cost-effective solutions are executed.
• Provide cover for Engineering manager as required, including supporting shifts.
• Supervises the work of service providers to ensure quality standards are adhered to.

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience leading a team and strong understanding of how to develop a high performing team.
• BEng Degree (Mech, Elec, Mnf) or Minimum: BEngTech / HCEng / City and Guilds (Mech, Elec, Mnf).
• Strong Lean manufacturing experience, minimum green belt or equivalent.
• Ability to act as a trusted coach, manage performance and enable the development of assigned team.
• Strong financial awareness, understanding of business drivers, budgeting processes.
• Experience in the use of computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).

What we offer
We understand our people are our special ingredient. We treat our employees with respect and offer an environment that is engaging, supportive and collaborative. We understand that employees require different supports at different stages of their working lives and our benefits, perks and programmes look to support your employee journey. We want to make you feel recognised and valued for your contribution to our shared success.

Some offerings include:

• Profit share; - An annual profit share scheme to reward your contribution to the company’s success.
• Product allowance; an annual allowance to spend on our portfolio of products and merchandise, for you to enjoy responsibly.
• People Development: We enable continuous development for our people at every stage of their careers through our people development, online learning, and leadership training programmes. 
• Family leave: fully paid maternity, parent and paternity leave, allowing you spend precious time with your new family member. 
• Parental Support: Our ‘Reconnect’ programme includes access to a workplace parenting coach, a phased return to work and a supportive environment for new parents
• Health & Wellbeing; Our Wellbeing Programme “THRIVE” supports employees across the three main pillars: Life, Body and Mind
• Charity Days: up to 2 days paid leave every year to volunteer at a charity of their choice

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Like a well-blended whiskey, we believe that diverse perspectives make us better and we welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, orientations, and differences to create together the spirit that makes us great.

To learn more about our careers, go to our careers page www.irishdistillers.ie/careers

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Job Posting End Date:

2024-09-30