Diageo

Reliability Engineer

Diageo  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Onsite)  •  1 day ago
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Reliability Engineer - Guinness

Marshalls Road, Belfast

Permanent

Closing date: 16/04/2026

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 our Supply Chain and Manufacturing Team

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.

About the role

As a Reliability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in a dynamic team ensuring our equipment is efficient, reliable, and well-maintained to meet production goals. You will lead efforts to:

  • Enhance Asset Care KPIs by delivering effective maintenance, problem-solving, and asset improvement.
  • Ensuring maintenance plans are aligned with failure mode assessments.
  • Transition the department to a proactive and condition-based engineering approach, reducing reliance on reactive maintenance.
  • Root cause major breakdowns and implement solutions that improve asset reliability.
  • Utilise data analysis to scope and implement improvement projects that align with compliance, cost, and performance objectives.
  • Ensure critical spares and stock levels are optimised for operational efficiency.
  • Provide technical expertise during significant breakdowns, machine set-ups, and capital project commissioning.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives, collaborating across teams to deliver impactful results.

You will be a key contributor to developing a culture of excellence, coaching peers, and ensuring all Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) tasks are completed efficiently.

About You

We are seeking a detail-oriented professional with the following qualifications and attributes:

  • Recognised Electrical or Mechanical apprenticeship with an HNC or equivalent.
  • Skilled in diagnosing and repairing complex machinery faults.
  • Experience with problem-solving techniques such as 5 Whys, RCPS, and familiarity with maintenance systems like SAP.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office and comfortable with data-driven decision-making.
  • Knowledge of Reliability/Maintenance methodologies.
  • Fault finding expertise.
  • Leadership qualities with the ability to inspire and mentor others.
  • Excellent communicator and a collaborative team player.
  • Conscientious, detail-oriented, and solution-focused.
  • Positive, adaptable, and committed to safety and quality standards.

If you are a driven and innovative professional ready to take on a challenge, apply now to join our team and make a difference!

Working with Us

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported from day one.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

  • Share schemes.
  • Pension - Diageo pays up to 14%
  • Product Allowance
  • 10% Annual Bonus
  • 25 Days Annual Leave
  • And much more!

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. 

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you make a note of this information when you submit your application.

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Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Marshalls Road

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-04-01

Diageo

About Diageo

Diageo's official LinkedIn account. We're a global leader in premium drinks, across spirits and beer, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of the industry.

With over 200 brands sold in 180 countries, our portfolio has remarkable breadth. From centuries-old names to exciting new entrants, and global giants to local legends, we're building the very best brands out there, and with over 30,000 talented people based in over 135 countries, we're a truly global company. With such diversity, we're able to truly represent our broad consumer base and think differently about the future.

To maintain our position as leaders in the alcoholic beverage market, we always invest in the future and are mindful of the impact we have. Because just like the legends of our past, we're here to raise the bar – for people as well as the planet.

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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