Senior Executive Process (Bi-Products)

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About the Function:

Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world. With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships. It’s fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers’ hands, you’ll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.

About the role:

• The Senior Executive – Bi-Products Process (DDGS & CO2 Operations) will be responsible for end-to-end management of the Distillers Dried Grain Solids (DDGS) manufacturing process within the Grain Distillery, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant operations.
• The role will oversee production planning, process execution, drying operations, product handling, storage, and dispatch readiness while ensuring achievement of production targets and optimal utilization of plant resources.
• The incumbent will work closely with Manufacturing, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and EHS teams to ensure uninterrupted operations, process optimization, and adherence to product quality standards.
• The role will drive operational excellence across the DDGS process by monitoring critical operating parameters, ensuring compliance with approved SOPs, maintaining product consistency, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, yield, and cost efficiency.
• The individual will be responsible for managing manpower deployment, coordinating maintenance activities, ensuring high standards of safety and housekeeping, minimizing process losses, and optimizing consumption of utilities and consumables.
• Key performance measures will include DDGS production plan achievement, product quality compliance, plant availability and reliability, yield improvement, utility consumption, safety performance, inventory management, process loss reduction, and audit compliance.

Qualifications & Experience:

• The ideal candidate should possess a B.E./B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, Food Technology, Biotechnology, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline, with 2–5 years of experience in distillery, ethanol, alcohol, grain processing, feed manufacturing, or similar process industries.
• Candidates should have hands-on exposure to DDGS operations, drying systems, process control, production planning, quality management, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, team management, and stakeholder management skills, coupled with a strong focus on safety, quality, and operational excellence, are essential for success in this role.
• Based on the original Grain Distillery process role shared in this version has been tailored specifically for end-to-end DDGS operations ownership.

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement:

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Diversity statement:

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 possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, 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 new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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