Maintenance & Engineering Team Leader - Stourton Dairy

Days based role: Monday – Friday (37.5 hours)

What will you get?

• Competitive base salary
• 26 days holiday + bank holidays
• Employer pension matched up to 6%
• X4 annual salary life assurance cover
• Flexible benefits- buy up to 5 days annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.
• Strong career development & training (internal and external training

The opportunity

• Are you an experienced engineering team leader ready to step into a complex and growing high pace dairy site?
• Able to lead and set objectives to an experienced team of engineers and drive towards maintenance excellence
• Are you able to galvanise the team around great maintenance principles, and effectively utilise resources to deliver improved safety, quality, and performance within a large production site
• Do you have the ambition and energy ready to take a leading role in mentoring, coaching and developing colleagues within your team to deliver maintenance & operational excellence through cross functional collaboration.

Key responsibilities

• Champion health, safety, environmental regulations, deliver Maintenance Excellence with the  engineering team, inspire a food safety and quality mindset at site.
• Use SAP PM to develop, plan and implement preventative & corrective maintenance programs in line with departmental strategy
• Identify opportunities for process and operational improvement and efficiency gains with a Lean mindset, and implements best practices
• Manages the delivery of targets to ensure the department achieves its goals.
• Leads the team with Root Cause techniques and coordinates effective resource prioritisation in consultation with other functional leads.
• Ensures that the department complies with Arla Foods’ standards and policies as well as the applicable law.
• Leads, coaches and develops colleagues based on good leadership and core values.
• Is a role model for digital transformation, works with data driven decision making and promotes a digital mindset within the team Contributes to process confirmation to support the APS transformation.
• Monitor and analyse maintenance metrics and KPIs, communicates effectively to report on status of lines and equipment.
• Procure and manage maintenance supplies and equipment, optimising resource allocation and utilisation
• Completes and updates plant maintenance records complying with all departmental procedures.
• Defines resources required, work planning and employee scheduling.
• Performs all activities in accordance with company and statutory requirements in order to provide a safe and compliant workplace.
• Embraces and ensures that Arla Digital WOW is communicated and embedded within the department.

Grow with Arla

• Professional qualification across an engineering discipline (NVQ level 3/ equivalent or higher)
• You are a motivated team player, with drive and ambition
• You will fully understand all statutory law requirements, contractor control regulations and have good commercial experience, effectivetly utilising budget and resources available 
• Having in depth knowledge and experience with the T.P.M programme, WCM tool, CMMS system with S.A.P PM knowledge and Office 365 skills would be highly advantageous
• Preferably leadership experience with a fast paced regulated environment and bring colleagues on a positive journey.
• Knowledge, experience and able to demonstrate LEAN ways of working/practice.

Things we would love to tell you about our Stourton site

• Arla Foods UK 2nd biggest dairy and the most complex across our UK supply chain
• Processing c2million litres of our Farmers milk every day!
• Producing over 200 SKUs across 14 filling lines – including our great brands of Cravendale & BoB filtered milk, Baileys, McDonald’s and all the major retailers.
• Stourton has recently received around £50 million investment in new line technology and our processing capability, with much more coming to site.

Please apply using the link or reach out to Alex Tyrrell, Senior Talent Partner, at Alety@arlafoods.com.

Application closing date for this position will be 22nd November 2024

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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