Mechanical Compliance Engineer

Job Description : Job Role: Mechanical Compliance Engineer Location: Leven, Scotland Contract: Permanent Work Pattern: Monday – Friday onsite Closing Date: 4th June 2026 About Us With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. About the Role As a Mechanical Compliance Engineer at our Leven Packaging site you will play a critical role in ensuring the safety and compliance of our engineering and operational activities. Reporting to the Site Engineering Maintenance Manager, you will lead the development, implementation and continuous improvement of safe isolation standards across the site. This includes ensuring full compliance with relevant legislation, Diageo Global Technical Standards, and industry best practice, particularly HSG253 – Safe Isolation of Plant and Equipment. Your work will directly support the prevention of process safety incidents, loss of containment, and risks associated with hazardous energy. You will provide technical leadership across mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic isolation, embedding robust isolation processes into permit-to-work systems and maintenance practices. This will involve developing and maintaining isolation philosophies, procedures, and documentation while supporting audit actions, incident investigations and compliance activities across areas including DSEAR, PUWER, COMAH, PSSR, and Process Safety Management. You will also play a key role in coaching and upskilling operational and maintenance teams, ensuring a consistent, high-standard approach to safe isolation across the site. About You You’ll be a time-served Mechanical, Process, or Multi-Skilled Engineer with a strong foundation in manufacturing maintenance and safe isolation practices. You bring a solid understanding of hazardous energy control, isolation verification techniques and the ability to interpret mechanical drawings and P&IDs. You are confident working with digital systems such as SAP or other CMMS platforms and have a good working knowledge of core legislation and standards related to process safety and engineering compliance. You thrive in a role where you can influence, coach, and drive best practice combining technical expertise with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset. Experience in high-hazard environments, functional safety systems, or complex shutdown planning would be highly advantageous. Above all, you are passionate about safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence, with the ability to engage teams, challenge where needed and ensure standards not only meet compliance requirements but go beyond them. Rewards & Benefits We offer a competitive salary alongside a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your lifestyle and wellbeing. This includes product allowance, pension scheme, share plans as well as a range of discounts across retail and wellness. Working with Us 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. 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. Diversity Statement 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 ofcelebrations for consumers around the world. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application. Worker Type :Regular Primary Location:Leven Processing Additional Locations : Job Posting Start Date : 2026-05-20 With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 29,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential. DRINKiQ What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. You can discover everything you need to know at DRINKiQ