Skilled Engineer

So, what will I be doing?

At Yeo Valley, we're more than just an organic dairy company - we're a community rooted in the land, committed to sustainability, and passionate about producing quality food that nurtures people and planet.

As a family-run business, we believe in doing things the right way - sustainably, ethically, and with people at the heart of what we do.

In this role you will be responsible for delivery of asset reliability and performance through the application of predictive maintenance, preventative maintenance, asset improvement projects, root cause analysis and fault resolution.

Your responsibilities

• Demonstrate commitment to people and food safetythrough own working practices and standards in line with legislative, companyand working procedures.
• Engagement in the development and support of a liability centered approach to asset maintenance.
• Effective delivery of asset care through the application and completion of planned, unplanned, predictive and preventative engineering activity to a high standard.
• Collaborate with other teams and colleagues to effectively manage tasks and resources
• Work in partnership with the site teams to develop knowledge and understanding in self and others of the assets and processes.
• Use problem solving techniques and root cause analysis to prevent, detect and eliminate faults, abnormalities and inefficiencies.
• Proactively participate in departmental and crossfunctional activity to deliver continuous improvement to support the ongoing development of a high performing workplace.
• Engage in and actively support project delivery across the site.
• Effective use and interaction with business systems to build, develop and make use of asset and performance data.
• Embrace and understand site, departmental and individual performance measures and the personal contribution to each.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential

• Apprenticeship or equivalent level of training in a single engineering discipline.
• Demonstratable capability and application of engineering knowledge in applied skills
• Previous experience of working in a manufacturing/production environment
• Proactive approach to asset care
• Logical approach to fault finding
• Provides support and knowledge as a resource to others within own team

Desirable

• Developed knowledge and application of RCM
• Advanced Fault finding techniques
• Developed knowledge of Condition Based Monitoring
• Best Practice in asset care

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 1900 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.

It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker.

You'll also receive the following

• Competitive holiday allowance
• 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
• 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.

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