Maintenance Engineer

AB Agri Ltd; Rugeley; Remote; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

AB Agri Ltd in the UK is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join our maintenance team at Rugeley/Fradley. You will perform preventive maintenance, respond to breakdowns, monitor equipment performance and support continuous improvements to maximise process yields and plant uptime.

The role requires hands-on fault finding, safe isolation, CMMS (Agility) tasks and proactive collaboration with operators. You will help manage spares, support safety initiatives and promote feed safety standards across

Qualifications

• Experience performing maintenance in an industrial environment.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventive maintenance and breakdown response to support operations.
• Monitor equipment performance and identify improvements to maximise yields and uptime.
• Promote safety learning opportunities and ensure safe working practices.

Skills

Preventive maintenance

Safety awareness

Customer focus

Effective communication

Tools

Agility CMMS

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Maintenance Engineer

Location: Rugeley/Fradley

Contract and shift pattern: 40 Hours Mon- Fri (with flexibility to cover nights and weekends on occasion).

What you'll be doing

• The role of the Multi-Disciplined Maintenance Engineer is to provide first class customer support to the Operations team. This is achieved by performing Preventive Maintenance activities, responding effectively to breakdowns, monitoring equipment performance and providing valuable input to help maintain process yields and efficiencies Contractor management.
• Actively promote safety learning opportunities
• Promote and be an advocate of Target Zero.
• Overall maintenance of the site including both reactive and planned maintenance tasks, fault finding, and small improvement projects, minimising plant downtime
• Supporting the Head of Maintenance Manager to ensure health and safety, feed safety and Quality standards are never compromised.
• Ensure all work is risk assessed and carried out on safely isolated equipment.
• PPM tasks in accordance with the agreed schedule. In line with our CMMS - Agility
• Be proactive in cooperation with the Operators to agree equipment downtime and availability for maintenance tasks.
• Assist the Head of Maintenance Manager in ensuring that adequate spare parts are held in stock by keeping the stores area organised and reporting parts used and ordering from suppliers.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by highlighting/identifying possible cost saving initiatives or process improvements.
• Assist with Control of Contractors, Permits to Work etc.
• Ensure responsibility for Feed Safety is understood across all repartees.
• Champion the company’s Feed Safety responsibilities and quality aspirations.

What you'll bring

• Drive Performance
• Continually strives to improve self and encourages those around them to do the same.
• Go the extra mile.
• Communicates task and targets clearly and concisely
• A positive attitude inspiring others and saying thank you at the right time.
• Perseveres until the task is successfully completed.
• Customer Focused
• Be respectful, considerate and polite to internal colleagues and external suppliers.
• Puts customers first by considering how every maintenance decision will affect the customer.
• Actively seeks out clarification about what the customer expects and can use creative abilities to provide solutions.
• Encourages two-way open and honest communication
• Demonstrates commitment to developing relationships both internal & external.
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written), with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
• Excellent organizational skills and have proven ability to prioritize differing demands.

Where growth meets purpose

What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all.With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.

We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it.From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.