# Distillery Team Lead

**Company**: Diageo
**Location**: Gimli, Manitoba
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $66,750 to $111,250 per year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking a Distillery Team Lead to join our team at the Diageo Gimli Distillery in Manitoba, Canada.

As a Distillery Team Lead, you will play a key role in supervising and coordinating the activities of unionized workers, including operational, personnel, and administrative tasks.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Ensure efficient production and high standards, optimizing safety, quality, production, and cost objectives through employee involvement and team building approaches to problem-solving

- Train and monitor personnel to ensure proper procedures are followed

- Communicate production schedules and schedule changes to relevant departments

- Direct the planning and implementation of key initiatives to improve distillery operations

- Ensure all monthly safety and food safety audits are completed on time, and all corrective action items are completed

- Review all production paperwork and ensure it is accurately completed

- Ensure production databases are properly maintained and information is used for continuous improvement

- Monitor parts and supplies inventories and place necessary orders to meet business needs

- Manage assigned budget accounts

- Generate ideas and implement changes in processes and use of equipment to increase efficiency, improve safety and quality, reduce costs, and improve employee engagement

- Assist other departments on material quality, package quality, and other production-related issues

- Work with management and staff on productivity, quality, and safety initiatives

**Requirements:**

- Post-secondary education

- Three to five years of experience in a production environment

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Experience in leading and managing day-to-day operations within a team of hardworking operators

- Strong analytical skills and ability to operate various computer programs

- Organization and time-management skills, with openness to learning every day

- Customer-oriented with working knowledge of GMP and HACCP

**What We Offer:**

- Salary range: $66,750 to $111,250 per year

- Opportunities for career growth and development

- Inclusive and diverse culture

**Diversity Statement:** Diageo values diversity and inclusion, recognizing that a diverse workforce is essential to driving business success.

## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- communication
- analytical skills
- GMP
- HACCP

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