Maintenance Engineer

Arla Foods

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Arla Foods, Lockerbie Dairy & Creamery, DG11 1LW

Shift pattern: (Days & Nights / 6-6 12 hour shifts)

Benefits

* Competitive salary (Base Salary + Shift Allowance)

* 24 days

* Annual Pay review

* Employer pension matched up to 6%

* X4 annual salary life assurance cover

* Flexible Benefits- buy additional days annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.

* Strong career development & training (internal and external training)

The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to work within our state of the art Lockerbie dairy and Creamery. This 24/7 highly automated plant produces both Arla’s fresh milk and cheese products. Our Lockerbie site is undergoing a multimillion upgrade to both the facilities and production equipment. As a Maintenance Engineer, you will provide critical breakdown cover, reactive and preventative maintenance to our high speed processing, filling and packaging equipment, drive continuous improvement and structured problem solving activities to improve operational efficiencies.

This will be working on equipment including; Milk pasteurisation, homogenisers, separators process systems, heat exchangers, cooling towers, CIP systems, filers, slicers, cartoners, bottle labellers, cappers, packers, blow moulding machines, weighers, flow wrappers, shrink wrappers, trolley packers. Palletisers, de-palletisers, conveyor lines (chain, spiral), robots (Kuka), vision systems, Spectrum TX rejection systems / OEMS including Siemens, Krones, and Tetra Pak.

What you’ll need in order to be successful in the role

* Ambition & drive

* Strong experience as a multiskilled engineer (shift engineer/ maintenance engineer/ engineering technician and the likes)

* Experience in mechanical and electrical engineering within Manufacturing, Production and Process environments

* Ideally you will be time served/ apprentice trained as Multi- Skilled Engineer within a manufacturing environment, qualified to a minimum NVQ Level 3/ ONC or equivalent.

* Ideally you will have experience with fast- moving machinery, pumps, valves, variable speed drives, variable frequency drives, sensors, relays, PLC’s (Siemens), Site Services (steam generation plant, chilled water systems, compressors), CIP systems.

* Computer literate – SAP, Microsoft Office, SCADA, Trend systems, HMI’S

Things we’d love to tell you about our Lockerbie site

* -Arla Lockerbie has received c.£73.8 million investment since 2005

* -60% of our colleagues at Lockerbie have over 10 years’ service

* -75,000 cows depend on our Lockerbie site to process their milk daily

* -If you piled the blocks of cheese we make at Lockerbie in a year end to end..the height would be equivalent to 2,428 Eiffel Towers

* -The amount of whey concentrate site produces each year would fill 4 Olympic size (50 meter) swimming pools

* -Our Arla Lockerbie site was open by HRH Queen Elizabeth in 1975

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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

Location: Greenhill, GB

Posted Date: 11/23/2024