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Maintenance Utilities Manager - Guinness Beer

Runcorn

Full-time, Permanent

Closing date: 27th July 2025

About Us

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.



About The Function And Beer Category

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.

We operate Guinness packaging facilities at Marshalls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Runcorn, in North West England, producing canned, bottled and kegged product for Ireland, UK and export markets. Significant investment is underway at both of these locations.

This role is site based at Runcorn which is an 18 Acre site running a 24/7 Operation with 4 rotational crews. It has 2 Bottling, 2 Canning lines and 1 Kegging production line. There are 90+ SKUs with 16 different Beer/Liquid types covering producing on average 23million cases of product per annum.

About The Role

Reporting to the Beer Packaging Engineering Manager, Maintenance Utilities Manager oversees the utilities maintenance, service operations and also the facilities management. The role involves ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, driving continuous improvement, and leading Utilities and facilities service through the specialist contractors. In this role, you will collaborate across multiple site functions with engineering, operations, compliance and with external partners delivering key improvement projects. You will strive to define greater efficiencies in particular, water, energy, gas usage and aims to enhance asset reliability and overall manufacturing efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality standards.
• Manage the optimal operation and maintenance of utility systems such as boilers, refrigeration, water treatment and electrical systems
• Implement cost savings opportunities and Continuous Improvement activity through focused projects
• Coordinate projects relating to upgrades, modifications or installations of new utility systems
• Drive projects to reduce site energy, carbon, and water usage aligned with site key performance indicators for environmental management
• Prepare budgets for Utilities, Facilities maintenance operations and monitoring of expenditures
• Provide technical solutions through Root Cause Problem Solving (RCPS) and promote the practice with contractor management teams
• Act as a leader in maintaining 5S and Asset Care standards.
  
  

About You

For this role you'll need to have a minimum HND or degree level qualification in electrical, mechanical or chemical/process engineering subject areas.

We are looking for a dynamic leader with experience in leading teams and improving utility performance through efficiency and sustainability. Your leadership skills, combined with hands-on knowledge of plant operations and a proactive approach to problem-solving, will be key to enhancing asset performance and supporting a positive, high-performing workplace culture.

You will have strong communication, influencing, planning, and organisational skills, capable of excelling in a fast-paced environment. A proactive and energetic mindset is essential to drive success. Commitment to world-class standards in 5S and Asset Care is expected to meet the demands of this role.

Working with Us

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Contributory pension scheme
• Product allowance
• Share options
• Annual bonus (depending upon performance)
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave
  
  

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.

Ourambitionistocreatethebestperforming,mosttrustedandrespectedconsumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights 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:

Runcorn

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date

2025-07-11

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Wine & Spirits

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