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Job Description: Process Engineer
Location: Moray House - Elgin
Position Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Midnight 28th September
Join our Supply Chain and Manufacturing teams!
Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved, and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering, and supplier partnerships.
It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency, and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.
About the Role
As a Process Engineer, you'll help shape the future performance of our Malt Distilling operations. Working within a collaborative technical team, you'll use data, insight, and innovation to drive efficiency, sustainability, and operational excellence across our network of 30 distilleries and 4 maltings. Partnering closely with operational and technical teams, you'll lead improvement initiatives, overcome difficult obstacles, and help unlock breakthrough performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive safety, operational, energy, and environmental improvements across Malt Distilling
- Lead and support continuous improvement and transformational projects
- Use data and technical expertise to find opportunities and solve complex challenges
- Champion structured problem-solving and root cause analysis to improve performance
- Coach and develop stakeholders, building technical capability and a growth mindset
- Encourage ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement across teams
- Identify and lead multi-functional problem-solving activities for systemic issues
- Benchmark internally and externally to uncover new ideas and technical insights
- Build strong partnerships across Operations, Engineering, Technical, Procurement, and Risk & Governance
- Role model high standards and a relentless focus on performance excellence
- Play a key role in leading and contributing to process risk assessments, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant operations across our production processes
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About You
You're a passionate and driven Process Engineer who combines technical expertise with a collaborative, people-focused approach. Energised by continuous improvement, you thrive on solving complex challenges, building strong partnerships, and delivering impactful results. You'll play a key role in shaping the future of malt distilling, inspiring teams, and driving operational excellence.
Key Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- Master's Degree (or equivalent) in Chemical Engineering
- Experience leading and delivering projects within operational or multi-functional teams
- Strong collaborator engagement, communication, and partnership-building skills
- Experience using statistical analysis tools to drive data-led decision making
- Proven ability to coach and influence others to improve quality, efficiency, and performance
- Passion for continuous improvement and developing both people and processes
- Lean and/or Six Sigma experience or qualification is advantageous
- Full clean driving licence with at least one year's driving experience
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Working with us
Our purpose is crafting iconic drinks chosen for life’s moments. And it’s our people, with their different experiences, perspectives, and talents, who make that possible. We value diversity in its broadest sense and want everyone to feel they can belong, contribute, and strive for their personal best. You’ll work alongside people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — challenging, supporting, and learning from one another as one outstanding team. Together, we’re constantly learning and improving, combining the strength of our people, capabilities, and iconic brands to raise the bar, grow, and win. Wherever you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute, make an impact, and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more.
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Worker Type: Regular
Primary Location: Moray House
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Job Posting Start Date: 2026-09-07
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