Safety & Compliance Specialist

Safety and Compliance Specialist

Guinness Storehouse, Dublin

Full Time, Permanent

This role requires some weekend work.

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.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function-

Our Marketing team are creators, helping to build and nurture some of the world’s most loved brands. We craft amazing connections with people around the world to celebrate our brands’ legacies and reimagine them for the world today, and into the future.

Everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of our consumers, behaviours, trends, and technologies. Using our genius and creativity, we unlock our brands’ uniqueness, understand their purpose, and put them at the heart of celebrations everywhere. Together, we’re celebrating diversity and challenging stereotypes through our advertising and marketing. Wherever your talents lie, from Design to Consumer Planning, you’ll be celebrated and supported in our inclusive culture.

About the role

To support the safe, compliant, and effective operation of the Guinness Storehouse, ensuring the health, safety, and wellbeing of guests, employees, contractors, and partners. The role plays a key part in embedding a strong safety culture aligned to Diageo values, while maintaining full compliance with legal, regulatory, and company standards in a high-volume visitor environment.

Reporting into the Safety & Compliance Manager, the role extends beyond core compliance requirements and acts as a key stakeholder in supporting the delivery of Diageo’s Spirit of Progress and sustainability commitments, requiring a senior level of accountability, engagement, and strategic influence.

Role Responsibilities

• Conduct daily and routine safety inspections across all areas of the Guinness Storehouse.
• Monitor operations to ensure compliance with procedures, SOPs, and risk assessments.
• Identify hazards and drive corrective and preventative actions.
• Ensure compliance with Irish health & safety, fire safety, food safety, and environmental legislation.

• Lead and support accident, incident, and near-miss investigations and ensure robust follow-up.
• Maintain and continuously improve the Health & Safety Management System, including the new integrated safety platform.
• Track, trend, and close out safety observations, incidents, and corrective actions.
• Support development and review of risk assessments and safe systems of work.

• Support the Site Emergency Response Plan and site-wide emergency readiness.
• Coordinate and participate in fire drills and evacuation exercises.
• Act as a key liaison with emergency services and internal stakeholders when required.

• Deliver Health & Safety inductions, toolbox talks, and refresher training.
• Champion Diageo safety culture initiatives and behavioural safety standards.
• Work closely with L&D and operational leaders to ensure compliance-related training is delivered and tracked.

• Review safety documentation and risk assessments for events, activations, and contractors.
• Provide event-day safety oversight and support crowd management in peak operational periods.
• Reporting, Audit & Continuous Improvement
• Maintain safety documentation, policies, procedures, and SOPs.
• Compile weekly, monthly, and quarterly safety, compliance, and sustainability reports.
• Support internal and external audits and actively contribute to Safety & Sustainability forums.

Experience / skills required

• Significant experience in safety, compliance, hospitality, events, or high-footfall operational environments.
• Strong working knowledge of Irish Health & Safety legislation and best practice.
• Proven ability to manage systems, data, and reporting in complex operational settings.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• High level of initiative, attention to detail, and ability to work autonomously.
• Third-level qualification in Environmental Health & Safety or related discipline.
• Experience supporting sustainability or environmental initiatives desirable.

Working with Us

Join us and you can also expect a highly competitive and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

• Contemporary work life balance policies and wellbeing activities

• Generous holiday allowance

• Lunch allowance

• Product allowance

• Annual merit increase and bonus (performance based)

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to 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 unique contribution each person brings.

If you have a genuine passion for our craft, our character and consumer experiences, then help us continue the story and build a great career in the process.   

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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 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.

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