Job Description :
Maintenance Utilities Manager – Guinness Beer
Belfast, Marshalls Road
12 months fixed-term contract/secondment
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 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. The management team at the Belfast site is shared with the Runcorn site.
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.
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.
Feel inspired? 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 :
2025-06-05
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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