Job Description : Sustainability Process Engineer Elgin Permanent Closing Date: 11th April 2026 In this exciting role you'll play a meaningful and hands-on role in shaping the future of Scotch production at Diageo. You'll join a passionate technical team committed to delivering our bold ambition of achieving our Spirit of Progress targets for water and carbon. This is a role for someone who loves collaboration, thrives on problem-solving, and feels energised by driving real, measurable impact across iconic distilleries and supply sites. Working closely with site teams, Global Project Engineering, and key business partners, you will help lead and support projects that push our sustainability performance forward, creatively, responsibly, and courageously. You'll blend technical insight with curiosity, relationship-building, and a championing spirit to elevate the way we use water and energy, adopt new technologies, and unlock breakthrough performance across our 31 distilleries, 4 maltings, bottling hall, and maturation and coopering footprint. In this role, you will: Guide and assist water and carbon-reduction projects throughout the Scotch category, working side-by-side with operational teams to deliver our 2030 Spirit of Progress commitments Provide technical insights that enhance water and energy efficiency, improve current water and carbon-reduction technologies, and meet environmental, cost, and performance targets. Benchmark internally and externally, identifying emerging innovations and translating them into meaningful opportunities for Scotch. Build strong, trust-based relationships with partners across finance, HR, risk & governance, procurement and more to deliver joined-up, complete solutions. Champion high standards, role-modelling a steadfast drive for step-change sustainability performance. Enable confident problem-solving, coaching others to use data, analytics and root-cause tools to solve challenges in a structured and empowering way. Encourage a growth mindset, supporting multi-disciplinary collaboration and helping teams gain assurance in taking ownership of the challenges they face. Here is a wonderful chance to create a meaningful impact through your technical knowledge, curiosity, and passion for a balanced future for Scotch You'll help influence decisions, inspire others, and contribute directly to Diageo's journey toward a cleaner, smarter and more resilient supply chain. About you You're a thoughtful, collaborative, and forward-looking professional who enjoys bringing people together to solve problems and make meaningful improvements. You combine technical expertise with a calm, supportive approach that helps teams feel confident and connected. You care about learning, sharing knowledge, and encouraging an environment where everyone can do their best work. You'll bring: Qualifications Master's degree or equivalent experience in Chemical Engineering Experience & Skills Experience leading and delivering projects within a team Confidence working in partnership with a wide range of colleagues and collaborators A strong record of clear, engaging communication Experience using statistical analysis tools and IS packages Full clean driving licence with more than one year of driving experience Desirable Lean or Six Sigma experience or qualification Excellence in Supply Chain Ability to support and guide engagement as processes and strategy are implemented across malt distilling A natural tendency to role model Dial Up behaviours, creating a positive and inclusive culture A supportive approach to coaching others, helping them follow consistent, high-quality ways of working Curiosity and commitment to learning, using Diageo Learning HUB and other resources to grow your capability and help operational teams develop Working with us 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 sense. This means that being yourself will be encouraged and celebrated just as you are. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, 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 the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you! Worker Type : Regular Primary Location: Moray House Additional Locations : Job Posting Start Date : 2026-03-17 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 (https://www.drinkiq.com/en-gb/)