Engineering Technician (Dairy)

Müller; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading dairy company in the UK is seeking an Engineering Technician for their Severnside Dairy. The role involves ensuring effective maintenance and improvements of equipment, with responsibilities including diagnosing faults and managing repair tasks. Candidates should have an apprenticeship, experience in maintenance, and ideally, electrical qualifications. This permanent position offers a competitive salary and a supportive team environment with a 4 on 4 off shift pattern.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allowance (276 hours)

Access to Müller Rewards Platform

Life assurance

Pension scheme

5% annual bonus (company target dependant)

Qualifications

• Experience within maintenance, ideally in a manufacturing environment.
• IOSH / Nebosh qualifications are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe front-line reactive maintenance.
• Diagnose faults and repair mechanical/electrical equipment.
• Ensure effective handover of information across shifts.

Skills

Mechanical / Electrical Biased

Multiskilled engineer experience

Maintenance experience

Education

Recognised apprenticeship

ONC / HNC

Electrical qualification

Job description

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain. Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:

Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

We are seeking an Engineering Technician to join us at our Severnside Dairy. As an Engineering Technician you’ll provide safe front line reactive maintenance, actively identify root cause and bring the equipment back in to service as quickly as possible, as well as actively seeking and identifying cost effective improvements to site assets and equipment, improving efficiency and reliability.

Engineering Technician (Dairy)

Severnside

Permanent contract: 4 on 4 off (2 days & 2 nights, 7-7)

Key responsibilities as an Engineering Technician

• Ensure effective handover of information across shift
• Use PMS to support prioritisation and problem solving (RCFA)
• Diagnose faults and repair and maintain mechanical/electrical equipment
• Observe, recognise and report on machinery or component defects or symptoms of impending failure and provide CMMS data
• Contact OEMs and other suppliers for technical support as and when required and expedite parts when not available on site
• Lead shift based problem solving where corrective actions aren't clear
• Work as ONE TEAM with First Line Response Technician
• Coaching of operators with asset care tasks
• Identify & implement improvements
• Identify life cycle issues and raise these with possible recommendations
• Use and support simple 5WHY OE techniques / RCA techniques through to 100 year fix
• Use and support departmental 5s programmes for workshops and stores

What we’re looking for

• Recognised apprenticeship
• Experience within maintenance
• Manufacturing Industry Experience
• Mechanical / Electrical Biased
• ONC / HNC
• IOSH / Nebosh – Desirable
• Electrical qualification
• Multiskilled engineer experience

Please note this is a 4 on 4 off Shift role Days / Nights rotating (2 Days 2 Nights)

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• Generous annual leave allowance (276 hours)
• Access to Müller Rewards Platform
• Long term career with a company that invests in you!
• Career development and defined pathways
• Onsite car park
• Supportive team environment
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme
• 5% annual bonus (company target dependant)

Contact Details

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ