Process Engineer – Sustainability-2

Elgin

Closes 30 October 2026

Process Engineer - Sustainability-2

Employer

Diageo

Posted

2 days ago

The role at a glance

In this exciting role you’ll play a substantial and hands-on role in shaping the future of Scotch production at Diageo. You’ll join a passionate technical team committed to delivering our bold ambition of achieving our Spirit of Progress targets for water and carbon. This is a role for someone who loves collaboration, flourishes with problem‑solving, and feels energised by driving real, measurable impact across iconic distilleries and supply sites. Working closely with site teams, Global Project Engineering, and key business partners, you will help lead and support projects that push our sustainability performance forward—creatively, responsibly, and confidently. You’ll blend technical insight with curiosity, relationship-building, and a championing spirit to elevate the way we use water and energy, adopt new technologies, and unlock breakthrough performance across our 31 distilleries, 4 maltings, bottling hall, and maturation and coopering footprint. Fixed Term Contract - 12 Month Here is a wonderful chance to create a significant impact through your technical knowledge, curiosity, and passion for a balanced future for Scotch.. You’ll help influence decisions, inspire others, and contribute directly to Diageo’s journey toward a cleaner, smarter and more resilient supply chain.

Day to day

What You'll Be Doing

Guide and assist water and carbon-reduction projects throughout the Scotch category, working side-by-side with operational teams to deliver our 2030 Spirit of Progress commitments
Provide technical insights that enhance water and energy efficiency, improve current water and carbon-reduction technologies, and meet environmental, cost, and performance targets.
Benchmark internally and externally, identifying emerging innovations and translating them into important opportunities for Scotch.
Build strong, trust-based collaborations across finance, HR, risk & governance, procurement and more to deliver joined‑up, complete solutions.
Champion high standards, role‑modelling a steadfast drive for step‑change sustainability performance.
Enable confident problem‑solving, coaching others to use data, analytics and root-cause tools to solve challenges in a structured and empowering way.
Encourage a growth mindset, supporting multi-disciplinary collaboration and helping teams gain assurance in taking ownership of the challenges they face.

What you will need

Requirements

You’re a thoughtful, collaborative, and forward‑looking professional who enjoys bringing people together to tackle problems and make meaningful improvements. You combine technical expertise with a calm, supportive approach that helps teams feel confident and connected. You care about learning, sharing knowledge, and encouraging an environment where everyone can do their best work.
You’ll bring:
Qualifications
Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Chemical Engineering
Experience & Skills
Experience leading and delivering projects within a team
Confidence working in partnership with a wide range of colleagues and collaborators
A strong record of clear, engaging communication
Experience using statistical analysis tools and IS packages
Full clean driving licence with more than one year of driving experience

Life at Diageo

Perks and benefits

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 sense. This means that being yourself will be encouraged and celebrated just as you are. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, 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.