Job Description :

Mechanical Engineer

• Weekends

Shieldhall, Glasgow

Permanent role

Mechanical Engineer - £47,668.00 including shift allowance + competitive 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

This role is based at Diageo’s Shieldhall packaging site. Shieldhall packages a huge volume of Scotch malt whiskies, white spirits and ready to drink brands to supply over 170 countries around the world and is a key manufacturing site within the Scotch supply category.

As a Mechanical Engineer within our team at Shieldhall, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the efficient and effective maintenance, repair, problem-solving, and improvement of all mechanical assets to maximize their availability across the site.

Key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with operations teams, CAPEX, and other maintenance groups to drive operational performance and improvements.
• Engage with operations teams and maintenance personnel to deliver and review mandatory and requested maintenance with minimal production impact, ensuring the availability of spare parts for scheduled maintenance tasks.
• Implement and develop maintenance programs aimed at supporting and improving asset performance and utilization.
• Respond promptly to plant breakdowns, identifying and repairing root causes to minimize downtime.
• Report maintenance outcomes via SAP to ensure the sharing of best practices.
• Uphold health and safety compliance and maintaining high-quality standards in all aspects of work.

Health and safety compliance is key, and you will be at the forefront of making sure this is monitored alongside ensuring both site and personal KPI’s are achieved.

Shifts

As a Weekend Mechanical Engineer, you will work Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 7 am to 7 pm with rotating nights from 7 pm to 7 am

About you

To be successful in this role, we’re looking for someone who has strong interpersonal skills and can communicate at all levels We would love to talk to someone who can use initiative and push forward their own ideas whilst offering guidance and support for our current approaches.

Key skills and experience:

• Relevant qualifications and have demonstrable knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk principles
• Experience in a production/FMCG environment desirable
• Can work well within a team as well as the ability to make effective decisions and thrive in situations where they can solve problems
• Able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities. A desire to make a positive difference to manufacturing excellence.

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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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Shieldhall

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date:

2025-09-23