Tank Farm Team Leader

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

Job Introduction

You'll lead, develop and manage our Girvan Distillery's Tank Farm operations, in order to ensure the delivery of key results, ensuring compliance with all of the relevant legislation.

Main Responsibilities

• Execute the operational plans in line with Company, Operations and Business unit objectives.
• Manage the Tank Farm budget, including variable and fixed costs for maximum functional benefit.
• Ensure compliance with all H & S, Environmental and Customs legislation in order to maintain compliance with all regulatory bodies.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment of business objectives that drive essential behavioural, and process change. Strong links to be developed with the Distillery Customer Relations, Process and Compliance teams.
• Implement best practice processes and procedures maximising effectiveness and efficiency, ensuring a strong interface with all key relationship teams.
• Lead and support improvement projects to ensure ownership and knowledge transfer is effective post project implementation.
• Develop robust planning process, which will support a drive for improved operating costs and efficient resource management.
• Lead, motivate and develop the team in line with the Company Values to maximise employee engagement.
• Demonstrate behaviours in line with our diversity and inclusion aim, which is to create and promote a diverse and inclusive culture at WG&S where ideas, differences and views are respected and where all employees are encouraged to create their own personal legacy.
• Key Performance Metrics:
  • Compliance manage all spirit supply activities ensuring that safe working practices and quality procedures are strictly followed to ensure compliance with HMRC, ADR,  environmental legislation, ISO 9001, OHSAS 18001 & ISO14001 requirements to produce safe food and feed products.
  • Quality Achieve OTIF delivery requirements, as well as meeting spirit specification and quality needs. Manage inventory accuracy and positive release processes to expected standards in line with business requirements.
  • Volume/Cost Management of budgeted output of tankers per man hour at each stage of   the process. Development of budgets, managing operations within required costs.
  • Continual Improvement - ensure housekeeping standards are maintained in all areas to   achieve required 5S scores. Use structured problem-solving methodologies for continual improvement with the team.

Our Ideal Candidate

Essential:

• Proven leader who can set objectives, performance manage a team and develop individuals to achieve their full potential.
• Knowledge and experience in the relevant areas of H&S legislation, HMRC compliance, continuous improvement and the application of best practice initiatives.
• Experience of managing multiple cost centre budgets.
• Knowledge of process infrastructure.

Desirable:

• Spirits industry knowledge.
• Inventory management system awareness.

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.