Job Description :
Compliance Engineer
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Full-time, Permanent Contract
Closing Date: 11th September
Do you enjoy influencing teams, driving high standards, and working in a fast-paced environment?
At Diageo, we’re looking for a Compliance Engineer to help us embed a culture of safety and compliance across our packaging operations. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our sites operate to the highest standards-protecting our people, our business, and our reputation.
As a Compliance Engineer, you’ll work closely with Site Management, Maintenance, Risk & Governance, and our Global Engineering team to ensure all activities align with legislation and Diageo standards. This role is both consultative (influencing and advising stakeholders) and authoritative (ensuring compliance is delivered and sustained).
Key responsibilities include:
– Ensuring adherence to Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality standards.
– Managing compliance databases (GRMS, SFIP’s, PUWER, LOLER, PSSR, Fixed Electrical Inspections).
– Overseeing statutory inspections, isolations, risk assessments, method statements, and Permit to Work systems.
– Driving compliance through SAP and other systems (EQMS, Enablon, SharePoint).
– Preparing and presenting compliance metrics and leading bi-weekly governance meetings.
– Supporting technical teams in audits, management of change, and maintenance reviews.
– Acting as a Safety Ambassador, championing zero harm and continuous improvement.
What we’re looking for:
– An HNC/HND in Mechatronics (electrical bias) or equivalent engineering experience.
– Knowledge of core mechanical processes, with the ability to read electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, and P&ID drawings.
– Experience in Health & Safety compliance (NEBOSH, IOSH, PUWER, COMPEX, machinery safety advantageous).
– Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
– Analytical skills, attention to detail, and experience with SAP or similar systems.
– Hands-on maintenance/engineering experience and a strong understanding of legislative requirements.
– Compliance certification or prior experience in a compliance management role is a plus.
About the Site
Our Belfast packaging site, commissioned in 1983, spans 12 acres and operates 24/7 (excluding public holidays). It houses two canning lines, a tank farm, warehousing, and distribution facilities, producing 130 SKUs-60% for domestic markets and 40% for export-ranging from 250ml to 568ml. Together with our Runcorn site in Northwest England, we package Guinness in cans, bottles, and kegs for Ireland, the UK, and global markets, with significant investment underway across both sites.
Working with Us
We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including Share schemes, up to 14% of Pension contribution by Diageo, Annual Product Allowance, 10% Performance based annual Bonus, 25 Days Annual Leave, 6-months of fully paid paternal cover and many more!
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.
Join us, and you’ll be part of an organisation that embraces 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 – an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. And you’ll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.
Feel encouraged? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Marshalls Road
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2025-05-05
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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