Vat Hall Team Leader

Join the heart of our spirit making process as a Vat Hall Team Leader and play a key role in ensuring our world class whiskies and spirits are crafted to perfection. Based within our Vat Hall in Bellshill, you will lead, support, and develop a high performing team responsible for preparing, managing, and delivering spirit for bottling. If you’re passionate about operations, people leadership, and continuous improvement, this is a fantastic opportunity to step into a role with genuine impact.

• Leading day to day Vat Hall operations to deliver production targets efficiently and safely.
• Managing, motivating, and developing the team to support high performance and engagement.
• Ensuring all spirit preparation, batching, and transfer activities meet accuracy, safety, and regulatory requirements, including HMRC compliance.
• Monitoring performance and driving continuous improvement across processes and working methods.
• Building strong working relationships with Bottling, Wet Goods, Supply Chain, Compliance, Quality and our partner sites at Girvan and Dufftown to ensure smooth operational flow.
• Maintaining high standards of housekeeping, hygiene, safety, and adherence to all H&S, Environmental and Customs & Excise regulations.
• Completing documentation, reports, and system updates accurately and on time.

• Experience in a production, manufacturing, or spirit processing environment.
• IOSH and COMAH training preferred, with experience leading teams through change and managing a demanding workload in a fast‑paced environment
• Strong people leader with the ability to coach, motivate, and build high performing teams.
• Proactive mindset with a strong focus on safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Confident decision‑maker with excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Clear and effective communicator who works well across multiple departments.
• Understanding of process operations, compliance, or HMRC controlled environments.
• Committed to upholding WG&S values and delivering high standards consistently.

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

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