Lead Manufacturing Technician

Job Description :

Job Title: Lead Manufacturing Technician

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Contract: 12 month FTC/Secondment

Closing Date: 2nd December 2025

Shift work is required for this position

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-

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.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

Join Diageo as a Lead Manufacturing Technician at Mallusk – Drive Excellence in Premium Spirits

About the Role
As a Lead Manufacturing Technician at Diageo in Mallusk, you will play a crucial role in overseeing our Liquid Processing operations. You will support the Shift Manager in ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production, interpreting schedules, deploying resources, and leading continuous improvement initiatives using DMAIC methodology. Your leadership will help maintain safety, quality, and environmental standards while driving performance through coaching, training, and problem-solving. You will also lead improvement projects, manage daily operational reviews, and ensure adherence to standards such as 5S, RCPS, and Autonomous Maintenance, all while fostering a culture of collaboration and operational excellence.

About You
You are an energetic and solutions-oriented professional with a strong background in manufacturing or process operations, ideally within a fast-paced, quality-driven environment. Your excellent leadership, coaching, and communication skills enable you to motivate teams, implement best practices, and drive continuous performance improvements. With a solid understanding of standards such as 5S, RCPS, Autonomous Maintenance, and Asset Care, you are committed to safety, quality, and environmental standards. Your problem-solving mindset, combined with familiarity with DMAIC and Lean methodologies, positions you to lead change effectively. Passionate about developing others and fostering a collaborative team environment, you are ready to make a meaningful impact at Diageo and help shape the future of our iconic brands.

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.

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Worker Type :

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Primary Location:

Baileys Mallusk

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-11-18