Job Description :
Processing Team Lead
About us– External Job Adverts Only:
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands including Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, Bulleit and Buchanan's whiskies, Smirnoff, Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas, Captain Morgan, Baileys, Don Julio, Tanqueray and Guinness!
Our performance ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. We are proud of the brands we make and the enjoyment they give to millions. We are passionate about alcohol playing a positive role in society as part of a balanced lifestyle. It is central to our purpose to celebrate life, every day, everywhere!
Diageo is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange (DEO) and the London Stock Exchange (DGE). For more information about Diageo, our people, our brands, and performance, visit us at www.diageo.com. Visit Diageo's global responsible drinking resource, www.DRINKiQ.com, for information, initiatives, and ways to share standard methodology.
About the Function:
About the team:
About the role:
This role is constantly leading multiple priorities across processing on a shift. The role requires quick decision making capabilities that will have impact to schedule adherence, safety and quality. The role is directly responsible for the overall performance of a specific part/area on a shift. This role will have supervisory responsibilities for up to 12 people on crew.
Purpose of Role:
Responsible for running the day to day production requirements across the processing area, including daily processing planning, safety, quality, coordinating staffing assignments, safety activities and departmental budget activities. Provide relevant training and development opportunities for the continued growth of the employee and team as a whole. Provide business leadership to ensure that team meets or exceeds Supply Excellence critical metrics. Drive continuous improvement and total employee engagement in critical success areas by empowering employees to use Supply Excellence tools and techniques. Optimize efficiencies and reduce labor costs as well as improving through puts while minimizing labor use
Role Responsibilities:
- Supervisory responsibilities are in accordance with company policy and applicable laws. Responsibilities include but not limited to training employees, batch and labor planning, appraising performance, rewarding, focusing, and motivating employees; addressing complaints, resolving conflict, solving problems, scheduling vacations, and verifying payroll sheets.
- Ensure efficient production is achieved and standards are met. Optimize safety, quality, production, and cost objectives through employee involvement and team building approach to root cause problem solving and continuous improvement
- Direct the planning and implementation of key business initiatives to support the department. This includes GMP/ ISO / FSSC / CARM Compliance/ MMS. Is an ambassador for safety, compliance and quality.
- Ensure production databases are properly maintained and information used for continuous improvement and planning purposes.
- Support all safety and food safety audits. Will be responsible for investigating and instituting all corrective and preventative action items. Processing team should have a clear understanding of the goals.
- Generate ideas and implement changes in processes and use of equipment to increase efficiency, improve safety and quality, reduce costs, and improve employee morale.
- Seeks, shares and adopts ideas and standard methodologies inside and outside the company as well as embracing change that is introduced cross functionally.
- Builds and maintains relationships that motivate, guide, and/or reinforce the breakthrough performance of others toward goal accomplishments. Develops self and others to improve performance in current role and to prepare for future roles; seeks and provides feedback and coaching to enhance performance
Experience / skills required:
- 4 year Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Preferably in Business, Management/ Engineering/ Food Science or Food Engineering background
- 3+ years of supervisory experience in CPG company with experience in processing/ warehouse departments, highly regulated best in class industry or an equivalent of experience including education.
- Proven ability to provide leadership, direct change and build trust and credibility amongst peers and direct reports
- Knowledge of TTB and State regulations pertaining to the production of alcohol beverages is a plus
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Rewards & Benefits Statement:
We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:
Diversity statement:
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.
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Plainfield Plant
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-07-09
Salary Range:
Minimum Salary:
$68513
Maximum Salary:
$114188
At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.
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