Maintenance Manager

Aurivo is a large multi-purpose co-operative engaged in a wide range of activities including dairy processing, liquid milk distribution, animal feed milling, retail stores, garden centres, livestock marketing as well as sports nutrition It employs over 750 people directly and provides jobs for many others in transport, distribution and services.

Job Overview:

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Consumer Foods team for an Maintenance Manager. This role offers a unique opportunity to work closely with our Maintenance Manager, who will provide mentorship and guidance during an initial transition period. Reporting to Head of Operations the Maintenance Manager will have full responsibility for all engineering on site. Overall responsibility for ensuring efficient operation of the maintenance function, including day to day breakdown maintenance, planning preventative maintenance and organising the maintenance team to achieve tasks within defined time

scale in a way that minimises costs and maximises efficiencies whilst at no time jeopardising Food Safety or the Health and Safety of any individual or product.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensure there is a system in place for a structured maintenance program of all machinery, tooling and utilities and preventative maintenance schedules are followed and completed

• Ensure the training and development program for Maintenance / Electrical Engineers and Apprentices is implemented effectively

• Support the roll out of skills development programme in the Engineering department

• Weekly reporting on team KPIs identifying and addressing key issues

• Provision of technical support and general maintenance of the site

• Identifying process improvement opportunities to improve machine availability & efficiency

• To ensure continuous operation of all factory utility systems

• Ensure capital investment programmes within the engineering function are fully researched and delivered on time and within budget

• Manage the engineering department operating expense budget and ensure high standards of management about spare parts and inventory

• Adherence to Company policies & procedures and ensure health & safety practices are followed

• To plan coordinate and monitor workplace activities for Maintenance / Electrical engineers and apprentices

• Develop systems to control stock

The ideal candidate will:

• Time served maintenance engineer with at least 3 years Management experience within a manufacturing environment.
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Electrical / mechanical engineering
• Lean manufacturing experience
• Relevant manufacturing/engineering experience ideally in the dairy/ food sector.
• Experience of managing a site budget
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members
• Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making
• Commercially aware
• Full driving license

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