Production Operations Specialist

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Job Title: Production Operations Specialist

Location: Fox & Geese

Contract: Permanent Position

About Irish Distillers

Irish Distillers is Ireland's leading supplier of spirits and wines and producer of some of the world's most well-known and successful Irish whiskeys. Led by Jameson, our brands are driving the success of Irish whiskey globally. Jameson is the world's fastest-growing Irish whiskey, achieving +10% net sales growth globally in FY23. Our brands are exported to 130+ markets around the world.

Irish Distillers was formed in 1966, when a merger took place between John Power & Son, John Jameson & Son, and Cork Distilleries Company. In 1988 Irish Distillers joined Pernod Ricard, gaining access to unprecedented levels of investment and an extensive global distribution network.

In 2022, we announced our ambition to significantly reduce carbon emissions across our distilling operations at Midleton Distillery in addition to our plans to invest in a new distillery on a site adjacent to our existing operations in Midleton.

We employ over 800 people across our operations in Cork and Dublin.

About Pernod Ricard

Pernod Ricard is a worldwide leader in the spirits and wine industry, blending traditional craftsmanship, state-of-the-art brand-building, and global distribution technologies. Our prestigious portfolio of premium to luxury brands includes Absolut vodka, Ricard pastis, Ballantine's, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater gin, Malibu liqueur and Mumm and Perrier-Jouët champagnes. Our mission is to ensure the long-term development of our brands with full respect for people and the environment, while empowering our employees around the world to be ambassadors of our purposeful, inclusive, and responsible culture of authentic conviviality. Pernod Ricard's consolidated sales amounted to € 12,137 million in fiscal year FY23.

We are currently recruiting permanent Bottling Operative roles within the Bottling Operations team at Fox & Geese.

Purpose of the Role

We are currently recruiting for the position of Operations Lead. This role will be based at our Bottling Plant and will report to the Bottling & Supply Manager.

The purpose of the role is to support the Operations teams across Packaging and Vatting to further develop and improve processes.

Role and Responsibilities

Compliance

• Every employee has a duty of care to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.
• Comply with all safety, health, environment, and quality legislation, procedures and standards in the workplace.
• Maintain a safe and organized workplace environment through adherence to 5S practices

People Engagement and Leadership

• Be Real, Be Remarkable, Be Responsible, role-modelling the Irish Distillers Values.
• Embrace a competitive and collaborative High-Performance team mindset.
• Develop good relationships and teamworking with own team and cross-functional team members.
• Coach others, including new technicians.
• Lead and contribute to the development and review of work instructions.
• Contribute to the review and improvement of work practices.

Continuous Improvement

• Be aware of equipment performance and loss and waste within bottling. At all times work to improve equipment reliability, reduce waste and identify opportunities to improve business processes.
• Analyse reliability trends, identify corrective actions to improve performance and implement these.
• Follow problem solving approaches as detailed in the Focused Improvement work practice.
• Participate in 5 Why's, review actions raised and execute agreed action plans.

Job Specific

• Provide leadership around safety, while always ensuring all activities, change or improvements have safety 'built-in' as standard
• Play a leading role in troubleshooting and problem solving to ensure optimisation of the Operations process and resources to reduce waste and improve area performance.
• Partner with key internal and external stakeholders to improve performance and capability of assigned operational areas.
• Collect and analyse reliable performance data and use in decision making and problem solving.
• Be responsible for the management & implementation of capital improvement projects and/or trials to agreed timeframes, budget and scope limits.
• Support leadership to introduce, embed and measure change effectiveness.
• Lead and support projects as assigned.

Qualifications and Experience

• 3rd level qualification in engineering, production plant experience or similar related discipline with at least 2 years' experience
• Proven demonstrated technical and leadership behaviour capability.
• Strong knowledge of process / plant operations
• Proven analytical / problem-solving skills
• Strong decision making / initiative
• Excellent project management skills
• Highly motivated individual with drive and passion to work in a busy role
• Team player with effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Motivated self-starter with the proven ability to meet set deadlines

Person Specification

• Developed Continuous Improvement mindset, underpinned by a history of ownership of own
• professional development.
• Be self-aware and driven to deliver beyond expectations
• Have an "Agile" mindset and respond to change in a positive and flexible manner.

What we offer
We understand our people are our special ingredient. We treat our employees with respect and offer an environment that is engaging, supportive and collaborative. We understand that employees require different supports at different stages of their working lives and our benefits, perks and programmes look to support your employee journey. We want to make you feel recognised and valued for your contribution to our shared success.

Some offerings include:

• Profit share ; - An annual profit share scheme to reward your contribution to the company's success.
• Product allowance ; an annual allowance to spend on our portfolio of products and merchandise, for you to enjoy responsibly.
• People Development : We enable continuous development for our people at every stage of their careers through our people development, online learning, and leadership training programmes.
• Family leave : fully paid maternity, parent and paternity leave, allowing you spend precious time with your new family member.
• Parental Support : Our 'Reconnect' programme includes access to a workplace parenting coach, a phased return to work and a supportive environment for new parents
• Health & Wellbeing ; Our Wellbeing Programme "THRIVE" supports employees across the three main pillars: Life, Body and Mind
• Charity Days : up to 2 days paid leave every year to volunteer at a charity of their choice

Like a well-blended whiskey, we believe that diverse perspectives make us better and we welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, orientations, and differences to create together the spirit that makes us great.

To learn more about our careers, go to our careers page

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Pernod Ricard is the No.2 worldwide producer of wines and spirits with consolidated sales of €8,448 million in FY20.

Created in 1975 by the merger of Ricard and Pernod, the Group has developed through organic growth and acquisitions: Seagram (2001), Allied Domecq and Vin&Sprit Pernod Ricard, which owns 16 of the Top 100 Spirits Brands, holds one of the most prestigious and comprehensive brand portfolios in the industry, including: Absolut Vodka, Ricard pastis, Ballantine's, Chivas Regal, Royal Salute, and The Glenlivet Scotch whiskies, Jameson Irish whiskey, Martell cognac, Havana Club rum, Beefeater gin, Malibu liqueur, Mumm and Perrier-Jouët champagnes, as well Jacob's Creek, Brancott Estate, Campo Viejo, and Kenwood wines.

Pernod Ricard's brands are distributed across 160+ markets and by its own salesforce in 73 markets. The Group's decentralised organisation empowers its 19,000 employees to be true on-the-ground ambassadors of its vision of "Créateurs de Convivialité." As reaffirmed by the Group's strategic plan, "Transform and Accelerate," deployed in 2018, Pernod Ricard's strategy focuses on investing in long-term, profitable growth for all stakeholders.

The Group remains true to its three founding values: entrepreneurial spirit, mutual trust, and a strong sense of ethics, as illustrated by the 2030 Sustainability and Responsibility roadmap supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), "Good times from a good place." In recognition of Pernod Ricard's strong commitment to sustainable development and responsible consumption, it has received a Gold rating from Ecovadis.

Pernod Ricard is also a United Nation's Global Compact LEAD company.