Maturing Manager Jobs

Job Title: Maturing Manager

Location: Gimli, Manitoba (Crown Royal)

Term: Full Time

About Us

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character, and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.

Nestled on the edge of Lake Winnipeg, Crown Royal’s distillery in Gimli, Manitoba is home to 1.696 million barrels of delicious whisky that sit patiently waiting to be shared with the world. One of Manitoba’s natural beauties, the town of Gimli hugs the western shoreline of one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes, with sandy beaches, an active harbour, and the largest Islandic population outside Iceland.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

About You

We’re looking for an individual with a drive to be the best: a brilliant communicator, influencer, and collaborator with a focus on people and integrity. You are highly organized and have a solid background in managing all aspects of a busy department within a unionized environment.

About The Role

• Display excellent leadership with strong communication skills and the ability to influence key partners.
• Ensure all management responsibilities are implemented in accordance with Global Diageo, North America Supply and local policies and all applicable laws. This includes interviewing, hiring, training, planning, assigning, and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and performance managing employees.
• Ensure the effective implementation of Manufacturing Excellence programs, innovations, and special projects.
• Set objectives and performance standards (critical metrics) for department and direct reports
• Deliver department strategy including annual operating plans to ensure long term supply of the highest quality Canadian whiskies.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Reporting to the Site Director, you will be responsible for leading the overall strategy within all areas of the Maturing Department, performing to Diageo standards, strategy, planning within the site.
• Build relationships and maintain effective partnerships with internal and external collaborators
• Drive a strong engagement platform that supports a continuous improvement culture.
• Drive department towards benchmark performance in safety, compliance, quality, and environmental sustainability through site programs such as Zero Harm, Food Safety, Water Stewardship, Zero Waste to Landfill etc.

Experience Required/Skills/Capabilities

• Working knowledge of provincial/national regulatory and safety requirements.
• Must have experience of leading a large manufacturing team and demonstrated people leadership capabilities.
• A relevant technical Degree is preferred with 5+ years’ manufacturing leadership experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Effective influencer and communicator and able to set out strategy and aspirations that others will follow and support.
• Advanced practitioner of continuous improvement tools such as Six Sigma, Lean, and Kaizen.

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Character Is Everything

Worker Type

Regular

Primary Location:

Gimli Plant

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date

2023-03-29