Area Maintenance Manager

Arla Foods; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Stourton Dairy, Leeds, LS10 1AX

Days based role: Monday – Friday (37.5 hours)

Are you an experienced maintenance manager ready to step into a complex and growing fast-paced environment? Are you able to galvanise the team around great maintenance activities, and effectively utilise resources to deliver improved safety, quality, and performance within a large production site? If so, Arla Foods Stourton Dairy has the perfect opportunity!

This is an exciting opportunity at our Stourton Dairy in Leeds, Arla's second-largest and most complex dairy site in the UK, producing over 700 million litres of tasty and nutritious products each year.

How you will make an impact

• Champion health, safety, environmental regulations, deliver Maintenance Excellence with the engineering team, inspire a food safety and quality mindset at site.
• Use CMMS system to develop, plan and implement preventative & corrective maintenance programs in line with departmental strategy, identify opportunities for process and operational improvement and efficiency gains with a Lean mindset, and implement best practices.
• Monitor and analyse maintenance metrics and KPIs, communicate effectively to report on status of lines and equipment.
• Lead, coach and develop a large team of engineering colleagues based on good leadership behaviours and core values.
• Be a role model for digital transformation, work with data-driven decision-making and promote a digital mindset within the team, contributing to process confirmation to support the APS transformation.
• Reporting into Senior Manager – M&E

Grow with Arla

• Professional qualification across an engineering discipline (NVQ level 3/ equivalent or higher).
• In-depth knowledge and experience with the T.P.M programme, LEAN, WCM tool, CMMS system with S.A.P PM knowledge and Office 365 skills would be highly advantageous.
• Preferably leadership experience in a fast-paced regulated environment and bring colleagues on a positive journey.
• You will fully understand all statutory law requirements, contractor control regulations and have strong commercial experience to effectively utilise the available budget and resources.

What will you get?

• Competitive base salary.
• 26 days holiday + bank holidays.
• 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).

Please apply using the link or reach out to Alex Tyrrell, Senior Talent Partner, at [e-mail].

Application closing date for this position will be 21st March 2025.

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?