Senior Site Director, Advanced Manufacturing & Automation
Diageo
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Diageo, based in Montgomery, Alabama, seeks an executive Sr. Site Director to lead a flagship, highly automated manufacturing facility. Responsible for safety, quality, service, cost, people, and productivity while leveraging automation and digital manufacturing to gain a sustainable competitive edge.
The role requires shaping culture, performance, and long-term strategy, aligning Operations, Engineering, and Manufacturing Excellence to achieve bench marks and drive modernization across the site.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership in complex consumer products or similar industries.
- Experience leading a large-scale, highly automated manufacturing operation.
- Demonstrated success partnering with engineering organizations to maximize automation, manufacturing technology and capital investments.
- Strong record delivering operational, financial and people performance simultaneously.
- Experience leading organizational transformation and building high‑performing cultures.
- Expertise in Lean Manufacturing, TPM, Six Sigma and Manufacturing Excellence.
Responsibilities
- Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for the manufacturing site.
- Deliver benchmark performance across Safety, Quality, Service, Cost, Productivity, Compliance and Employee Engagement.
- Lead, coach and develop a multi-disciplinary leadership team spanning Operations, Engineering, Manufacturing Excellence, Quality, EHS, Human Resources and Finance.
- Establish a high-performance culture built upon accountability, transparency, trust and continuous improvement.
- Own annual operating plans, capital investment strategy, technology roadmap and long‑term site strategy.
- Provide strategic leadership to the Engineering function, ensuring technology investments improve safety, quality, service, reliability and productivity.
- Champion automation, digital manufacturing and advanced technologies to improve operational performance.
- Partner with Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence to establish long‑term asset reliability and modernization strategies.
- Lead execution of innovation, capacity expansion, productivity, automation and transformation initiatives.
- Ensure capital investments deliver measurable operational and financial benefits.
- Develop leadership capability, succession planning and organizational effectiveness across the site.
- Partner with regional and global functions to support enterprise objectives.
- Serve as the visible leader of the site through growth and change.
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Diageo, based in Montgomery, Alabama, seeks an executive Sr. Site Director to lead a flagship, highly automated manufacturing facility. Responsible for safety, quality, service, cost, people, and productivity while leveraging automation and digital manufacturing to gain a sustainable competitive edge.
The role requires shaping culture, performance, and long-term strategy, aligning Operations, Engineering, and Manufacturing Excellence to achieve bench marks and drive modernization across the site.
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