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Arla Foods
Westbury Dairy Plant, Westbury, BA13 4WD
Senior Maintenance & Engineering Manager
Days based role: 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%
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)
An exciting time for our UK supply chain as we continue our major capex development with our Westbury dairy receiving a further £18 million investment. This opportunity is lead and drive transformational change within maintenance & engineering, collaborating with peers across site and our UK M&E LT to design a strategy towards WCM environment. Coaching and leading a large team with access to a considerable budget and autonomy to bring positive change.
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 focused 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 wed love to tell you about our Westbury site
Arla Westbury is the Home of Anchor butter
We are the largest Butter factory in the UK
We are the largest Dryer factory in the UK
At peak times Westbury is consuming 5% of the UKs milk- thats the milk from every 1 cow in 20 from the whole of the UK
Milk powder and butter from Westbury are exported all over the world- you will also eat Westbury Powder within several brand name confectionaries and desserts
Westbury Dairy is soon to receive around £18 million in strategic capex investment
Please note we are note 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.
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