**Job Description :**
**Production Area Manager**
**Marshalls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland**
**Permanent, Full-time**
**Closing Date: 25 November 2025**
**About the Site**
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.
The Belfast site, commissioned in 1983, spans approximately 12 acres and operates a production schedule that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, excluding public holidays. It includes two canning lines for packaging, a tank farm for bulk receipt and dilution to sales gravity, as well as a warehousing and distribution system. The facility manages 130 SKUs, with 60% designated for domestic consumption and 40% for export, offering products ranging in size from 250ml to 568ml.
**About the role**
As Production Manager for the canning area, you will be responsible for leading day-to-day operations, driving performance, and ensuring excellence across safety, quality, and efficiency. Your focus will be on developing people, embedding best practices, and delivering sustainable improvements that support the site’s strategic goals.
Key responsibilities are;
+ Lead Tier 1 operations within your area, delivering against the balanced scorecard and driving standards
+ Champion governance, compliance and continuous improvement, ensuring conformance with health, safety, environment, quality and regulatory standards (ISO, HACCP, CARM).
+ Drive the Manufacturing Excellence Programme (TRACC) in partnership with site leadership, embedding best practice in performance, standards, capability and asset care.
+ Provide outstanding leadership and coaching to your team, building capability, accountability and a culture of high performance.
+ Actively spend time on the shop floor, role modelling problem-solving, systemic root cause analysis and breakthrough thinking.
+ Manage budgets, resources and capital planning to align with site and company strategy.
+ Build strong cross-functional relationships with Engineering, Manufacturing Excellence, and other key partners to deliver site ambitions.
**About you**
We are looking for a dynamic leader with proven experience in leading teams in a manufacturing environment. Your leadership skills, combined with hands-on knowledge of plant operations and a proactive approach to problem-solving, will be key to enhancing performance and supporting a positive, high-performing workplace culture.
**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?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 new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
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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.
**Worker Type :**
Regular
**Primary Location:**
Marshalls Road
**Additional Locations :**
**Job Posting Start Date :**
2025-09-24
With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people’s unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.
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