Environment Business Leader - Cameronbridge

Job Description :

Environmental Business Leader

About the role

As the Environmental BL, you will be a member of the leadership team reporting to the Operation’s Director and you will lead Cameronbridge distillery’s environmental performance. You will be ultimately responsible for driving environmental performance at Cameronbridge – a globally significant site to Diageo.  The role ensures that environmental compliance and sustainability are embedded into every layer of performance for Cameronbridge. The role will also act as the primary interface with regulators and key stakeholders, working closely with Operations Managers and bioenergy plant. 

As part of the site leadership team, this role is critical in simplifying and translating Diageo’s global ambition into local impact and execution, ensuring all site-based teams understand their role in contributing to environmental performance and overall balanced scorecard for the site.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Leadership

• Performance Management: Ensuring that Cameronbridge operates at the highest levels of environmental performance, and achieves benchmark status in terms of cost and environmental impacts. E.g. Litre of water used per litre of alcohol distilled (L/LA). You will lead a range of focussed improvement project teams to deliver agreed targets
• Digital Enhancement: Collaborating with site digital lead to develop existing site digital infrastructure to improve the visual management of environmental performance on site making it easier for the team to succeed. E.g. STRATA (Cotopaxi)
• Strategic Investment: Build and develop proposal’s with Business Development Manager to further mitigate environment risk’s to enhance compliance and performance. E.g. plans to drive site performance further away from permit limits.
• Budget control: will management spend with key partners in accordance with the AOP for Grain & Bio PPLA.

Stakeholder Management & Engagement

• Act as site environmental lead for managing relationships with environmental regulators and other environmental stakeholders (e.g., utility providers, local groups)
• Proactively lead and engage with external partners such as, but not limited to, Fife Council, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Scottish water, Forth Fisheries Board, River Leven Trust. E.g. key point of contact for SEPA Local Officer
• Support development of strong culture for site environmental awareness through exceptional level of employee engagement. E.g. simplified training packs and one point lessons

Operational Compliance & Risk Management

• Permit Control: Ensure that all environmental regulatory and compliance standards are met or surpassed, including PPC A Permit management, UK ETS (data management and notification), and CAR (Controlled Activities Regulation).
• Data Assurance: Ensure audit readiness and accurate reporting, both internal and external. This involves assessing current data requirements and optimising this through digital solutions that are reliable and easily navigated. E.g. effluent reporting data required through PPC Permit.
• Own and gatekeep the Environmental management system on site, ensuring the site is operating to not only legislative requirements but also upholding the Diageo Global Risk Management standards.  Evolve and enhance this system to make adherence more achievable and use teams on site to drive accountability to follow the management system. E.g. Waste Management

Key Leadership Capabilities and Attributes:

• Work as part of the CamLe Leadership Team, demonstrating the attributes of the Diageo Leadership Behaviour Standard (Shape the Future, Win Through Execution, Invest in Talent, Inspire Through Purpose)
• Ability to simplify complexity and confidence in communicating across all levels
• Appetite to challenge status quo and a continuous improvement mindset
• Confidence in moments of pressure or scrutiny, particularly navigating regulatory changes
• Capability to shape the future looking at strategy, generate designs and handover implementation to local site teams to ensure accountability
• Ability and flexibility to think and react on a short term horizon and demonstrate strategic planning for activity on a longer term horizon.
• Highly organised and motivated to deliver exceptional results.
• Proven track record of coaching and facilitation skills.

Functional Capabilities & Experience (preferable):

• Strong and demonstrated Project Management skills, with ability to lead various diverse projects, on differing timelines and have a proven track record of doing so.
• Capability to consider change management implications from a cross-site perspective, using engagement tools and techniques.
• Degree qualified.
• Experience across a range of technical/ operational / environmental roles including process operations, engineering, and project management.
• Familiarity in managing a manufacturing operation to a set of environment permit conditions.
• An understanding of either distilling processes, energy or wastewater management & contract management is advantageous.
• Passionate about sustainability

Working with Us 

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. 

About Us 

From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We’re the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons. And our success is thanks to the strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy. And it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve. 

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. 

We're looking for people with creativity, boldness and a sense of purpose to take Diageo and our timeless, pioneering brands to the next level. 

                    

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Cameronbridge

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-11-05