Nights Maintenance Engineer

So, what will I be doing?

As a Maintenance Engineer you will be joining the Engineering team in an established, distinctive and ambitious food manufacturing company that is committed to making great British dairy the right way. Forever. You'll be responsible for carrying out both planned preventative and reactive maintenance, ensuring the smooth operation of machinery, plant equipment and production overall at our Newton Abbot site.

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off nights (6pm until 6am) 12 hours shifts

Key responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out both planned preventative and reactive maintenance on machinery and plant across the site in Newton Abbot, recommending improvements to systems and content to improve on the value added detail for the new Reliability Centred Maintenance System.
• Minimising down time and fault finding on a range of machinery in a fast paced and large scale manufacturing environment. Identifying and shaping improvements to eradicate repeat faults.
• Assisting with root cause analysis, continuous improvement and general daily operational efficiencies to improve on engineering key performance indicators (KPI's).
• Assisting with project work as and when required including the introduction of new plant and equipment, both commissioning and delivering a project from start to end.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

• Experience of working as a Multi skilled Maintenance Engineer in a manufacturing environment with understanding of process manufacture, mechanical and electrical systems, machining, Tig welding, site services knowledge, refrigeration, steam generation, Pneumatic control systems.(Festo, SMC)
• Knowledge of Health and Safety and showing best working practices within in an engineering manufacturing environment, Food safety knowledge within an engineering role.
• Ideally you will have worked in food manufacturing or FMCG production environments previously.
• Preferably multi-skilled with an electrical bias).
• PLC experience and diagnostics, servo drive and control systems, using Bosch Indra drive, Allan Bradley, Siemens, Mitsubishi in particular.

Why should I join the family?

We're independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK's major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK's packaged yogurt.

We're sure you don't need convincing, but there's a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

• 20 days' holiday, including bank holidays
• non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we're committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don't miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we're not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.