Senior Maintenance & Engineering Technician - Arla Oswestry Packaging, Oswestry

Shift pattern -3 on 3 off (Days & Nights / 12 hour shifts)

Benefits

• Competitive salary (Base Salary + Shift Allowance)
• 21 days + Bank Holidays
• Annual Pay review
• Employer pension matched up to 6% (12% total contributory)
• 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)

Things we’d love to tell you about our Oswestry site

• We cover 8 acres of land and package 350 different types of product.
• We #feedthenation, producing and delivering 99.8% of our customer orders on time.
• If we lined up, side-by-side, all the 20kg blocks of cheese our Oswestry site process each year, we could plot the entire UK coastline
   

So what do our engineers actually do?
This is an opportunity not to be missed. You’ll get the chance to work at Arla’s state of the art, highly automated cheese processing and packing site. As a Multi-Skilled Engineer, you will support the site as critical support on breakdowns as well as drive planned preventative maintenance activities across automated processing and packaging equipment. You’ll get involved in CI and improvement projects in line with our maintenance excellence programme, as well as capex/non modifications

This will be working on equipment including; Slicers, graters, labellers, cappers, packers, weighers, flow wrappers, shrink wrappers, trolley packers. Palletisers, de-palletisers, conveyor lines (chain, spiral), robots (Kuka), vision systems, Spectrum TX rejection systems and more.
 

What you’ll need in order to be successful in the role

• Ambition & drive
• Ideally apprentice trained/ time served or proven experience with fast paced manufacturing environment
• Strong experience as a multiskilled engineer (shift engineer/ maintenance engineer/ engineering technician and the likes)
• Experience in mechanical and electrical engineering within Manufacturing, Production and Process environments
• Ideally you will have experience with fast- moving machinery, pumps, valves, inverter drives, sensors, relays, PLC’s (Siemens), Site Services (steam generation plant, chilled water systems, compressors, processes), CIP systems (chemical cleaning plant)
• Computer literate – SAP, Microsoft Office, SCADA, Trend systems, HMI’S

Things We’d Love To Tell You About Arla

• We are a farmer- owned cooperative. That means we are committed to partnering with farmers so they are guaranteed a fair price for their milk.
• We experimented with poo powered trucks (google it- you won’t regret it), and built the world’s first ever 100% carbon neutral dairy. All as part of our ongoing commitment to combatting climate change.
• We are the producer of Lurpak, one of the world’s most iconic butter brands.
• We are a Danish business, operating across the UK, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, North America, South America and other regions across the globe

Closing date for this role will be 28th August 2024.

Please apply below or reach out to Jess Thwaite, Talent Partner, at jesth@arlafoods.com

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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