What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instrumentation & Electrical Engineer position at Diageo?
Job Description
From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has 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 build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
The Diageo Montgomery facility is the premier site in North American Supply. As the facility continues to grow and install advancement in ever complicated technologies, the troubleshooting requirements placed on staff continues to become more advanced. The I&E Tech will be responsible for instrumentation and electrical support and for the effectiveness of the DCS system and process controls for bottling lines and liquid processing. The I&E Tech is a key member of the Asset Care Team and reports to the I&E Manager. The successful candidate will be expected to work on shift pattern schedule.
Purpose Of Role
People
The ability to work in highly effective teams is essential for success in this role. As a self-motivated member of the Asset Care Team, you will provide support, training and coaching to your fellow team members, positively impacting team members, inspiring and engaging others.
Safety
Diageo aspires to operate a Zero Harm Culture, where everyone goes home safe, every day, everywhere. Responsible for your own safety as well as the safety of your co-workers and all site visitors, you will actively participate in all site safety, health and environmental programs. You will need to maintain a current knowledge of, and comply with, all health safety and environmental rules and regulations. Familiarity with various permit to works including hot work permits, safe work permits and following safety rules and regulations such as lockout-tagout
Key Outputs
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 Diageo to succeed and 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 outstanding contribution each person brings.
Recruitment Scam Warning
Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.
Worker Type
Regular
Primary Location:
Montgomery
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date
2026-07-10
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA: SALARY RANGE IS FROM $61,425 TO $102,375 (ANNUAL)
At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.
From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of outstanding character, and in 250 years, nothing has 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 build the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
The Diageo Montgomery facility is the premier site in North American Supply. As the facility continues to grow and install advancement in ever complicated technologies, the troubleshooting requirements placed on staff continues to become more advanced. The I&E Tech will be responsible for instrumentation and electrical support and for the effectiveness of the DCS system and process controls for bottling lines and liquid processing. The I&E Tech is a key member of the Asset Care Team and reports to the I&E Manager. The successful candidate will be expected to work on shift pattern schedule.
Purpose Of Role
People
The ability to work in highly effective teams is essential for success in this role. As a self-motivated member of the Asset Care Team, you will provide support, training and coaching to your fellow team members, positively impacting team members, inspiring and engaging others.
Safety
Diageo aspires to operate a Zero Harm Culture, where everyone goes home safe, every day, everywhere. Responsible for your own safety as well as the safety of your co-workers and all site visitors, you will actively participate in all site safety, health and environmental programs. You will need to maintain a current knowledge of, and comply with, all health safety and environmental rules and regulations. Familiarity with various permit to works including hot work permits, safe work permits and following safety rules and regulations such as lockout-tagout
Key Outputs
- Strong PLC experience to be able to troubleshoot code within the Allen Bradley environment.
- Timely and accurate repair of facility instrumentation, controls, and electrical circuits
- Troubleshooting, inspecting, diagnosing, testing, and adjusting digital, pneumatic and manual instrumentation
- Strong knowledge of process and production, instrumentation & detection systems:
- Pressure, flow, level instrumentation
- Standard bottling line equipment such as fillers, labelers, laser coders, label detection systems, palletizers, etc.
- Troubleshooting, tuning and optimizing control loops
- Training team members
- Optimizing DCS control screens and operator interfaces
- Maintaining instrumentation and electrical inventories, reporting part usage, and ordering spare parts
- Instrumentation and electrical preventative maintenance and asset care
- Maintaining accurate maintenance records within SAP CMMS
- Working closely with the Maintenance Team Members
- Actively participating in cross-functional work teams
- Ability to quickly learn and understand processing (batch and continuous) systems
- Familiar with root cause problem solving methods and documentation
- Skilled in reading functional specs, loop diagrams, P&ID drawings, logic diagrams
- Finding solutions to bottling and processing problems
- Optimizing yield and minimizing waste
- Meeting or exceeding site Key Performance Indicators
- BAS in Engineering or equivalent technical work experience
- Minimum 2 years relevant instrumentation and electrical maintenance experience
- Minimum 2 years Rockwell control systems experience
- Experience with SAP PM or other PM computer system preferred
- Familiar with current electrical regulations, codes and safe work practices
- Proficient in Allen Bradley PLCs
- Understand SCADA systems (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
- Working knowledge of Allen Bradley VFDs and Servo drive components
- Familiar with Ethernet, Profibus, Remote I/O, DH Control Net and Device Networking
- Demonstrated capability to troubleshoot, calibrate and repair all types of Process Instrumentation
- Must be able to read and comprehend electrical and instrumentation drawings
- Demonstrated teamwork capability and can-do attitude
- Demonstrated Problem Solving and communication skills
- Demonstrated commitment to safety
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 Diageo to succeed and 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 outstanding contribution each person brings.
Recruitment Scam Warning
Protecting candidates is very important to us. All communications regarding your application will come from an email address ending in @diageo.com. In our recruitment process, we'll never ask for money.
Worker Type
Regular
Primary Location:
Montgomery
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date
2026-07-10
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA: SALARY RANGE IS FROM $61,425 TO $102,375 (ANNUAL)
At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.
Salary : $61,425