Senior Maintenance & Engineering Manager - Westbury Dairies
Location: Westbury, GB
What will you get?
- 26 days holiday
- Annual pay review
- 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)
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 to 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 an engineering team of c25 or more.
- 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.
- Willingness to support Apprentices development whilst upskilling the whole team to drive efficiency and capability.
- Capable of demonstrating and leading with a true sense of urgency to meet business needs.
Things we’d 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 one of the largest Milk Powder Dryer factories in the UK
- At peak times Westbury is consuming 5% of the UK’s milk - that’s 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 products within many brand name confectioneries, desserts and baked products
- Westbury Dairy is currently implementing over £16 million in Strategic Capex investment
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.
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