Sustainability Co-Ordinator - Belfast

Job Title: Sustainability Co-ordinator – Graduate Opportunity

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 2 years

Closing Date: 5th July 2023

Take our heritage into the future.

About Us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

About the role

As a sustainability graduate at one of our beer packaging sites you’ll play a pivotal role in helping Diageo meet its ambitious sustainability 2030 targets, particularly focusing on water and energy efficiency in the packaging process.

Responsibilities include reporting the site water & energy usage daily, escalating live issues, increasing engagement with sustainability goals and acting as a point of contact between Diageo and the site’s utilities contractor.

You will identify potential process efficiency improvement areas, carry out data collection and analysis to determine the feasibility of proposed improvements and present recommendations and proposals to senior members of the business in terms of potential financial and environmental benefits. You’ll be given the freedom to work on your own projects, supported by a network of dedicated teams who want to see you succeed.

About you

The ideal candidate for this role will have an engineering-based degree or a Sustainability /Environmental Management degree.

It would be beneficial if you have demonstrable experience in data alalysis. Proactive and structured problem-solving approach with a focus on corrective and preventative action.

A great team player and an effective communicator across all levels of the business.

Benefits

We offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including salary, pension, product allowance, family leave regardless of gender and many more.

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.