Job title: Engineering Team Lead

Location: Fox & Geese, Dublin 22

Contract: Permanent Role

About Irish Distillers

Irish Distillers is Ireland’s leading supplier of spirits and wines and makers of some of the world’s most well-known and successful Irish whiskeys. Led by Jameson, our brands have driven the global renaissance of Irish whiskey and are exported to over 130 markets across the globe. We are located across 5 locations in Ireland and are based nationwide across Cork, Dublin and Belfast. Recently, In 2022, we proudly became a top 10 global spirit brand, distributing over 10 million cases of Jameson across the globe. At the core of everything we do is a passion for our craft, a commitment to sustainability and an ambition to create drinks that can be enjoyed the world over. We believe great things happen when real, remarkable and responsible come together

Irish Distillers joined Pernod Ricard in 1988, gaining access to unprecedented levels of investment and an extensive global distribution network. Pernod Ricard is the No.2 worldwide producer of wines and spirits with over 300 brands including Absolut, Jacobs Creek, Beefeater Gin and MMPJ and many more.

We are currently recruiting an Engineering Team Lead 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

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.

• Profit share: an annual profit share scheme to reward your contribution to the company’s success.
• 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

Our Leadership Attributes

Grow Diverse Teams: Leverages & values diversity of profiles to build empowered teams and develop talents creating a sense of belonging in an environment that promotes the Pernod Ricard values

Bold & Agile: Decisive and courageous even in the face of difficult & complex situations and always learns from past experiences. Steps up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said in a respectful way

Consumer Centric; Develops customer/consumer intimacy with a focus on technology to innovate and create more value for the consumer and Pernod Ricard.

Open & Authentic; Role models who instil trust, engage teams by giving and receiving feedback and constantly fostering open dialogue.

Growth Mindset; Forward thinking; embodies a vision that translates into inspiring strategies. Thrives in a complex and changing world deploying resources effectively and efficiently.

Deliver through Collaboration; Achieves results while balancing rigorous planning and flexible transversal collaboration. Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

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

To learn more about our careers, go to our careers page:

www.irishdistillers.ie/careers