Guinness Nigeria (Diageo) Recruitment

Guinness Nigeria aims to be the Most Celebrated business in Nigeria. To realise this they are committed to world class standards in Manufacturing. That’s where you come in – Guinness Nigeria is now seeking highly competent ft experienced professionals to join their West Africa Manufacturing Support Team.
Guinness Nigeria is a member of Diageo Plc – the world’s leading premium drinks business with an unrivalled collection of beverage alcohol & non-alcohol brands across the Spirits, Wine & Beer categories.

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External Job Description
Job Title: Environmental & Utilities Manager, West Africa Manufacturing Support Hub
Level: L4
Reports To: Engineering Support Manager, West Africa Manufacturing Support Hub
Context:
Diageo Africa is currently the highest growth region in Diageo. The West Africa Manufacturing Support Hub supports the operations in Nigeria (two operating sites), Cameroon (one site) and Ghana (two operating sites).
Establishing a stable and compliant utilities and environmental infrastructure for the five sites is a pivotal challenge for a successful supply operation in West Africa.
Dimensions:
Financial
Recent major capital investment of several million pounds has taken place for effluent treatment plants and infrastructure improvements.
Market Complexity
Each of the three countries; Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria has highly volatile but expanding beverage market. Diageo is a major player in all three with the overwhelming majority of the stout market as well as substantial and growing volumes of lager beer, RTDs, malt drinks and premium soft drinks.
Purpose of Role
Responsible for ensuring the West Africa Supply Hub operations are meeting their reporting and improvement obligations in utilities and environment, as well as driving improvement initiatives to deliver Diageo’s 2015 environmental goals for the region which include significantly reducing water usage, green house gases and waste to landfill
Top 3-5 Accountabilities:
Monthly environmental and utility KPI reporting through BPM and Entropy is in place in all sites.
Environmental and energy improvement targets in place in all operating sites.
Improvement plans to meet those targets in place and being implemented, using lean manufacturing (DWBME) principles and the output from energy auditing programme. That the hub environmental and utilities team are pro-active in ensuring the sites teams are engaging with the site teams in these activities such as RCPS.
Environmental and utilities compliance issues including and especially capability, standards and operating procedures issues are being highlighted and dealt with sufficient alacrity in the West African Operating Sites.
Ensure Diageo global environmental initiatives are visible and being taken up in all West Africa Sites.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Degree in relevant Engineering discipline or Environmental Management.
- Masters in alternate discipline an advantage.
- 5 years FMCG, Process, Utilities or Energy Management Experience. 2 years Environmental Management experience.
Need to Know
- Relevant legislation in three West Africa markets
- Diageo Policies and Risk Management Standards
Skills and Knowledge
- Environmental Management
- Utilities maintenance, operation and management
- Legislative compliance
- Presentation – written and spoken
- Networking
- Energy Auditing
- Environmental Auditing
- ETP design, monitoring, operation, optimisation and maintenance
Barriers to Success:
- Lack of influencing capability
- Inability to challenge the status quo.
- Inability to translate data into knowledge and move to informed action.
Flexible working options:
This role will be based in West Africa, strong preference for one of the two Nigeria sites, with regular travel between the five sites essential. Full time role.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should CLICK HERE TO APPLY ONLINE
Application Deadline is 1st February 2011