Job Description

Job Title: Blender Dayshift

About us:

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. 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:

Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.

About the role:

Is a Supervisory role which supplies Bulk Liquid to the Isipingo Packaging Department and other Packaging business partners, in line with the business goals and objectives, to maintain a high efficiency, low cost, good quality and acceptable safety standard operation. To implement company’s manufacturing processes, systems, and procedures. Accountable for Supervising / leading blending, filtration, mixing process operations. Leading and ensuring loading and offloading of bulk tankers and containers. Maintain and Lead a Safe and Healthy Working Environment and Improve Quality and Food Safety Compliance Agenda

Role Responsibilities:

• Actively this role shall own the entire process to ensure the delivery of the bulk products to internal and external customers On Time In Full at the required Quality.

• Planning & Co-coordinating Blending processes to ensure the on time in full of no error supply of Bulk liquid to all our Packaging Partners internal and external.

• Translation of packaging plan into blending plan and communicate timeously to all stakeholders.

• Comply with the Customs, Excise and Duty payment process as defined in the Tanker offloading SOP.

• Stand in for the Blending Manager when required for Business continuity.

• Ensuring all ingredients and processing aids are available for production.

• Ensuring all utilities are available for blending production.

• Ensure cleaning and sanitizing of the Plants and equipment in accordance with quality standards.

• Ensure all autonomous maintenance processes are consistently applied and implemented in line with the maintenance plan.

• Participate in AM audits.

• Prepare for, Receiving, offloading, Loading and dispatch of consolidated flavours and blended liquids.

• This role involves facilitation and interaction with all relevant stakeholders both internally and externally.
• The individual must have a positive impact on all site KPIs through correct application of Continuous Improvement methodologies.
• Participate and/or lead the relevant root cause analyses for any non-conformances.
• This role requires you to work shifts.
• Lead and support the Blending Operators to execute the relevant production plans in accordance with the set KPI’s
• Lead the people management agenda related to the Blending Operators (HR/IR policies and procedures).
• Spend adequate time on the floor to support, coach and guide operators.
• Manage attendance and manpower requirements.
• Apply Performance Management Practices consistently with direct reports.
• Ensure continuous handover across shifts and within the team members.
• Partner with capability personnel to ensure the development and growth of the Blending Operators.
• Ensure blending operator’s skills matrix are updated timeously.
• Effectively lead and deliver department KPIs.
• identify opportunities on the shift and the plant to drive KPI improvement.
• Accountable for maintenance of documentation.
• Accountable for records to be correct, completed fully and honestly.
• Conduct all activities and processes in accordance with relevance LTO (Licence To Operate)
• Attend all mandatory and statutory training.
• Conduct all the Blending activities according to the agreed Technical Manuals and Company Standard operating Procedures.
• Ensure all Quality and Food Safety Management system standards and controls are consistently applied,
• Ensure prompt adherence of team members to standard escalation procedures.
• Ensure 5 WHY is completed on shift inline with stipulated standards.
• Ensure all down time activities is properly recorded.

Experience / skills required:

National Diploma in chemistry, Food Science, Microbiology, or related science/engineering fields

• 3 – 5 years relevant experience in Blending environment
• Preferable 3 years in Supervisory / Team leader position
• FMCG experience is essential.
• SAP experience will be advantageous.

• Analytical ability to understand balance between customer service, inventory holding and production capability.
• Sensory Expertise: Highly developed sense of smell and identify quality nuances.
• Technical Knowledge: Understanding of spirits chemistry, wood management, and maturation dynamics.
• Experience: A background in distilling, maturation, or laboratory settings is required
• Documentation Skills: Accuracy in logging, reporting, and maintaining detailed records for compliance and inventory.

Critical Skills Required

Functional Skills

• Incident reporting & investigation
• Emergency preparedness
• Risk Assessment
• Run The Business (RTB)
• 3 Tiers of Problem solving
• Loss & waste analysis
• Auditing
• Hygiene & Food Safety Compliance

Technical Skills

• Understanding of BOM (Bill of Materials)
• ABV understanding & Calculations
• Record Keeping and Reporting
• Blending Inspections
• Planning (Call-offs Include Scheduling)
• Manning
• Right First Time (RFT)
• Blending Waste Management (Include FIFO)
• CIP Management
• Blending Adjustments
• Stock Count
• Trained Noser (Internal)
• Process for isolation of material
• Knowledge of Innovation process of running liquid trials

Excellence in Supply Chain 

• Is experienced of working within the Performance Management structure of KPI’s and Tier Review Meeting Structure  
• Has a proven track record in adherence to Core Process and Standards  
• Demonstrates role model behaviour and coaches’ others to follow a consistent approach and go beyond mandatory minimum requirements.
• Proactively leverages the learning curriculums and materials on Diageo Academy and other sources to continuously grow and develop in role.   

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 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.

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Isipingo

2026-05-28