Senior Coppersmith

Abercrombie, Alloa

Closing Date: 28/03/2025

Senior Chargehand Coppersmith - £48,051.78  + competitive a benefits package with pension, shares scheme and bonus.

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 the role 

Reporting to the Business Leader, you’ll be responsible for the fabrication, installation, maintenance, repair and improvement of all process equipment supported by Abercrombie across our Scotch sites. Working with the Abercrombie Management team, Site Management and Maintenance Planners you’ll ensure compliance with, and delivery of, Abercrombie KPI metrics whilst ensuring adherence to plans and delivery of wider business targets.

You’ll be supervising a team of tradesmen in the Alloa facility and on production sites, carrying out a wide range of fabrication, engineering and maintenance tasks and site installation work.  In addition, you be leading less experienced team members, actively supporting and coaching them to develop their skills.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Working closely with Site Manager’s, Operators, Maintenance Managers, Maintenance planners and Craft groups to ensure all mandatory and requested maintenance is effectively delivered with minimal impact on production, ensuring the correct resource and spare parts are available to carry out the maintenance tasks.
• Responding promptly and efficiently to plant breakdown situations: analyse, fault find and repair root cause problems to ensure downtime is kept to a minimum.
• Providing feedback on mechanical improvement workstreams relative to sites or engineering centre.
• Supporting the Abercrombie Management team and acting as a point of contact for asset care Manufacturing Excellence (TRACC) metric delivery at sites. Leading workstreams that produce results in improving reliability and efficiency, whilst at the same time delivering potential cost savings to the business.
• Owning and driving asset care IMPROVE activity both directly at site and within the asset care community. Actively take part in root cause problem solving (RCPS) activity and provide subject matter expertise to ensure that 100-year fixes are identified, actioned and implemented.

What you’ll bring 

The successful candidate will have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate to all levels of stakeholders across the plant.  You will be organised and self-reliant, handling your own workload and priorities while solving problems and supporting process and equipment improvement projects.

In addition, you’ll have:

• HNC in an Engineering subject or equivalent experience
• Minimum 7 years' experience working in a production or service environment
• Experience in supervising a team
• Experienced in data analysis, use of applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and business systems such as SAP
• Knowledge of Distilling & Malting processes is desirable

Working with us

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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