Job - Sr Executive Fermentation & Distillation

Job Title: Sr Executive Fermentation & Distillation

About the Function:  

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.

Role Responsibilities:

Brewing Operations

• Execute daily brewing operations as per production plan and SOPs.

• Ensure efficient mashing, lautering, wort boiling, and wort clarification.

• Monitor and control critical parameters to achieve target extract, yield, and wort quality.

• Identify and eliminate process bottlenecks to improve cycle time and throughput.

Fermentation Operations

• Manage fermentation to ensure stable and timely batch completion.

• Control fermentation parameters including temperature, pitching rate, yeast health, and attenuation.

• Prevent sluggish or stuck fermentations, especially during seasonal challenges.

• Coordinate with Quality/Microbiology teams for yeast management and hygiene.

Distillation Operations

• Operate and monitor distillation to achieve target alcohol recovery and quality.

• Ensure stable column operation, correct cut points, and minimal losses.

• Drive yield improvement and reduction in steam and power consumption.

• Ensure compliance with excise, safety, and statutory requirements.

Cooling Tower & Utilities

• Oversee cooling tower operations to ensure required cooling capacity and water quality.

• Monitor cycles of concentration, chemical dosing, blowdown, and make-up water.

• Support reduction of water, power, and chemical consumption through optimization.

Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP)

• Ensure ETP operation in line with Pollution Control Board norms.

• Monitor influent and effluent parameters and take corrective actions as required.

• Optimize ETP performance to control operating cost and downtime.

• Maintain statutory records and support audits and inspections.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Strict adherence to safety standards, SOPs, and permit-to-work systems.

• Promote safe work culture and participate in risk assessments and investigations.

• Ensure compliance with quality, food safety, excise, environmental, and statutory norms.

• Support internal and external audits and closure of observations.

People & Coordination

• Supervise operators and technicians during shifts.

• Ensure effective shift handover and documentation.

• Coordinate with Engineering, Quality, Utilities, Stores, and EHS teams.

• Support training and skill development of shop-floor personnel.

Continuous Improvement & Reporting

• Identify opportunities for productivity improvement and cost reduction.

• Support trials, POCs, and implementation of process improvements.

• Maintain accurate production, utility, and quality data.

• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly operational reports.

Experience / skills required:

• Strong process understanding and troubleshooting capability.

• Knowledge of safety, quality systems, and statutory compliance.

• Data-driven and structured approach to problem solving.

• Good communication and coordination skills.

• Willingness to work in shifts and handle operations independently.

Flexible Working Statement: 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.

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, 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. 

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