Senior Maintenance & Engineering Manager - Stourton Dairy

Arla Foods

Stourton Dairy, Leeds, LS10 1AB

Senior Maintenance & Engineering Manager

Days based position: Monday – Friday

What will you get?

• Competitive salary
• 26 days holiday
• Annual pay review
• Variable pay bonus scheme
• Private health cover – Bupa
• 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)

Due to our growing CAPEX portfolio here in the UK we are proud to see our current Senior Maintenance & Engineering Manager stepping into a central strategic projects position to support this journey.

Therefore, we have a very exciting senior level opportunity at Stourton Dairy.

• Are you an experienced engineering leader with a strategic approach to Maintenance & Engineering?
• Have you demonstrated the power that great maintenance can have to help deliver improved safety, quality, and performance across a large production site?
• Are you a modern M&E professional that demonstrates strong collaboration across departments to transform results?
• Are you a modern leader with the ability to engage and inspire a large team on a fast-moving, high volume 24/7 operation?
• Are you ready for a unique opportunity & a challenge!

What will the role look like?

• You will lead the site M&E department who are an experienced team working across specialist areas such as Process, Production, Automation, IT, Projects, Utilities, and site services.
• You will be responsible for leading the M&E roadmap onsite, also working with UK peers to chart the course towards world-class maintenance and engineering practices, encompassing the Arla Performance System, specialized topics relevant to the dairy industry and specific dairy product production.
• You will be accountable for effective control and deployment of an annual multi-million-pound maintenance budget.
• You will work closely with Operations on the journey of Operator Asset Care improvement & expansion.
• You will develop the M&E department to provide the reliability and capability required as the site grows both in size and strategic importance.
• As part of the Site Leadership Team, you will play a key role in the development and delivery of all strategic initiatives and plans for the site.

What do I need?

• A robust understanding of M&E within an automated fast moving manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding and experience working with M&E safety & compliance.
• Proven M&E focussed continuous improvement experience (TPM, WCM methodology preferred)
• Strong leadership experience with a focus on people development, having managed a M&E department with c50 engineers.
• An appetite for creating positive change and experience in culture-led change management.
• We are looking for someone who gets the best out of others, who will lead, coach, motivate and inspire people to perform on a day-to-day basis
• Unphased by short term priority changes whilst keeping the long-term goals on track.
• Capable of demonstrating and leading with a true sense of urgency to meet business needs.

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.

Applications closing date for this position is 22nd March 2024

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

Please note we are not partnered with any recruitment agencies for this role. We kindly ask that recruitment agencies do not submit CVs on behalf of candidates for this role, as these CVs will not be considered under the agency ownership and if Arla does progress with any such candidate, this will not amount to acceptance of the agency's terms. We encourage interested individuals to apply directly through our official channels.

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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