Facilities Manager

Job Title: Facilities Manager

Location: Midleton Distillery, County Cork

Contract: Permanent

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.

About the role:

We are currently seeking a Facilities Manager to manage site facilities in our Midleton Distillery and Dungourney Maturation Warehouse (current and future expansion) sites. Key success indicators will include developing and maintaining site facilities (soft and hard) & align with expectations and needs as we expand.

Main responsibilities:

• Ensuring that Health, Safety and Wellbeing in Midleton is maintained as a priority.
• Provide leadership on all facility management service delivery and act as a subject matter expert.
• Manage the third-party, soft facility operations including, administration, space management, security, housekeeping, catering services, and waste management to ensure they are delivering in line with agreed service level agreements and business needs.
• Develop and maintain budgets for facility management.
• Identify, agree, and provide appropriation for site facilities for future expansion.
• Ensure land scaping and garden maintenance is agreed and coordinated between the production services team and external contractor.
• To agree and coordinate facility requirements with all other departments.
• To ensure the maintenance of agreed hard facilities e.g. canteen, general office maintenance including painting.
• Provide effective communications to stakeholders across the site with regards to relevant changes or updates.
• Drive culture of continuous improvement in soft & hard facility services, ensuring agreed targets are achieved and exceeded whilst managing costs in line with budgets.
• Create a short, medium, and long-term vision for facilities management.
• Manage non- critical operations facility projects in line with business needs.
• Manage 3rd party facilities contractors ensuring they are site inducted, competent, training needs identified, work to the site work permit system and procedures including managing KPIs (Key Performance Indicators).
• Carry out quarterly business reviews based on performance requirements.
• Monitor service providers performance, identify trends, and ensure process improvements are established.
• Ensure documentation is maintained for compliance with all government and regulatory requirements.
• Collate and prepare monthly operations reports.
• Ensure OPEX and Capex information is provided in a timely manner.
• To work with direct and indirect procurement during tenders and contract negotiations.
• Carry out tenders and/or bench marking on smaller soft and hard facilities items to ensure competitive pricing.
• Implement a system for logging facility related issues so they can be dealt with in a timely manner.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 5 - 10 years’ professional experience in Facilities Management.
• 3rd Level Qualification in Facilities Management or relevant area
• A self-motivated, resourceful, solutions driven and flexible approach with a willingness to engage and improve all aspects of the site facility.
• Experience of managing 3rd Party contractors and knowledge of COMAH requirements is advantageous

Life at Irish Distillers

At Irish Distillers, we live and love whiskey. Our shared spirit is guided by our values because we believe special things happen when Real, Remarkable and Responsible people come together. We’re proud to be part of the Irish Distillers and Pernod Ricard family, and the magic moments we create through our brands.

Our culture is a blend of curiosity and craic, where everyone can be the author of their own verse. Our enthusiasm for what we do is infectious. The spirit we share gives us purpose and makes life at Irish Distillers special. And what’s life without a little spirit?

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 of offerings include;

Profit share; - An annual profit share scheme to reward your contribution to the company’s success.

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 and experiences to create together the spirit that makes us great.

To learn more about our careers, go to our careers page www.irishdistillers.ie/careers

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