Description :
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:
To evolve and drive UBL sites asset care strategy with a view to continuously improving equipment reliability, performance, availability and maintenance cost efficiency.
To provide asset care leadership in UBL sites by ensuring asset care excellence, providing specialist asset care advice, driving World class Asset care Ways of Working, and driving asset care capability development for sustainability.
To evolve UBL site Capex plans and drive their full implementation
Complexity
UBL continues to undergo major changes in its asset care policy through adoption of diverse asset care standard methodologies intended to deliver maximum value at lowest
Asset care is now seen as the responsibility of everyone in the organization and viewed as a profit centre rather than a cost centre. The role is tasked with setting a dynamic asset care strategic direction developed to involve and apply diverse strategic pillars to deliver sustainability in performance targets.
The role therefore calls for solidness in engineering functional skills, understanding & applying world changes in asset care principles and innovativeness in standard processes. The role also calls for strong business mindset in managing the huge resources' available to this responsibility
Further, the role also offers stewardship in Capex management for UBL site. Strong understanding of the site investment strategic direction in order to define the gaps and needs is a key result. Driving Integrity & standards in Capex projects implementation is another key result.
Role Responsibilities:
This position works within the senior management team within UBL and IDU business. The role has direct reports, comprising of Capex managers and asset care managers. The role has strong working relationship with all Tusker heads of departments, inventory management. finance and procurement leadership. This role is the key link with Diageo Engineering Excellence team for the Tusker site
Top Accountabilities
Roll out of UBL site asset care strategic plans & drive their full implementation
Continual review and alignment of asset care strategy
Prudence in Budgeting and Budget management for asset care, Utilities and CAPEX
Delivery of asset care important metrics
Dynamic Maintenance planning guidelines for attainment of target plant availability, reliability and asset life cycle.
Monitor equipment life-cycle costs and advise appropriate on modifications, upgrading or replacement.
Driving efficiency in maintenance spares inventory management
Capability reviews of Senior engineer and facilitation of training requirements
UBL Capex origination, development, approval and implementation
Support in formulation of strategic capital development objectives and plans including three-year plans and Capex AOP in line with the overall company objectives.
Implement projects within applicable company processes from project design and costing, justification for approval to, specifications for tendering by procurement department, technical evaluation of the tenders and eventual supervision of contractors and consultants during the relevant stages in the life of the project.
Ensure Implementation of Food safety, Quality, Environment and Safety Management Systems according to FSSC 22000, ISO 9001, ISO14001 and ISO45001 requirements respectively.
Experience / skills required:
Qualifications:
University degree or equivalent experience in Engineering fields of Mechanical, Chemical, Production, Electrical or Electronics.
Registration status at corporate level by Engineers Registration Board or equivalent statutory body and corporate membership of the Institution of Engineers of Uganda or equivalent professional body.
Experience:
8 years first line management experience
5 years’ experience in plant maintenance management.
Proven planning and leadership record
Know and understand fully, plant operational and maintenance requirements
Project management skills
Strong business mind set
Strong leadership skill
Adaptability to changes
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, attitudes, 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.
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Worker Type : Regular
Primary Location: Portbell Brewery
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date : 2026-04-07
