Maintenance Engineer (Mechanically Biased) - Settle Creamery

Arla Foods Deutschland GmbH; Settle; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Arla Foods GmbH is seeking a Maintenance Engineer (Mechanically Biased) for their Settle Creamery. This role involves providing essential breakdown support and engaging in preventative maintenance within a highly automated dairy environment. The ideal candidate will possess strong mechanical skills and experience in a fast-paced manufacturing setting, contributing to the continuous improvement and efficiency of production systems.

Benefits

24 days holiday

Annual pay review

Employer pension matched up to 6%

Flexible benefits to buy up to 5 days annual leave

X4 annual salary life assurance cover

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a mechanical engineer in manufacturing environments.
• Knowledge of fast-moving machinery, pumps, and valves.
• Time served as mechanical engineer or fitter.

Responsibilities

• Provide breakdown support and participate in planned preventative maintenance.
• Maintain equipment including pasteurisation and bottling machines.
• Involved in CI and project work.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Basic electrical engineering

Quality control

Education

HNC or apprenticeship in engineering

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

SCADA

Job description

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Maintenance Engineer (Mechanically Biased) - Settle Creamery

Location:

Settle, GB

Shift pattern: (Earlies, Days & Nights / 7:00am-4:30pm 5 day Block / rotating 6-6 12 hour shifts)

• Competitive salary (Base Salary + Shift Allowance)
• 24 days Holiday
• Annual Pay review
• Employer pension matched up to 6% (12% total contributory)
• 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.
• Please note that due to the site closure which we estimate to be in the second half of 2027, we are offering an enhanced reward and support package to support our colleagues. This includes a pro rata retention payment (25% of average annual salary) as well as a redundancy payment based on length of service (no 2-year minimum service needed). We are also offering relocation support for colleagues staying with Arla following site closure as well as out service support for those colleagues who choose not to stay.

Things we would love to tell you about Settle:

• A well invested, highly automated site which recently received c.£30 million in investment.
• The Arla Foods Settle Creamery opened in 1963 and over the years has produced milk, butter and at one point mozzarella cheese
• In 2021, Lactofree production commenced at its Settle plant in Yorkshire following £25m investment
• The move from its Scandinavian sites was in reduction to the soaring popularity of the Lactofree brand across Europe.
• Total European value sales from Lactofree rose by 4.7% in 2018, according to statistics. Lactofree milk in particular also continues to perform well, making it one of the UK’s bestselling milk brands#
• The investment at Arla’s Settle factory has allowed processing capacity to grow by an extra 120 million litres of milk a year to a total of 305 million litres

So what do our engineers actually do?

This is an opportunity not to be missed. You’ll get the chance to work at one of Arla’s largest Dairies with state of the art equipment and solid career development . As a Maintenance Engineer, you will play an integral role on site in providing breakdown support as well as participating in planned preventative maintenance. Alongside your day to day, you’ll get involved in CI and project work.

This will be working on equipment including; Milk pasteurisation, homogenisers, separators process systems, filers, 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 such as Siemens, Krones, Tetra Pak, SPX flow, ISOMA,Hueft, Nepas, Alpla & Grunwald.

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

• Ambition & drive
• Strong experience as a Mechanical engineer (shift engineer/ maintenance engineer/ engineering technician and the likes)
• Experience in mechanical and if possible basic electrical engineering within Manufacturing, Production and Process environments
• HNC or apprentice trained or proven experience with fast paced manufacturing environment
• Ideally you will have experience with fast- moving machinery, pumps, valves, Site Services (steam generation plant, chilled water systems, compressors, processes), CIP systems (chemical cleaning plant)
• Computer literate – SAP, Microsoft Office, SCADA, Trend systems, HMI’S
• Time served as Mechanical engineer / fitter within a manufacturing environment.

Things We’d Love To Tell You About Arla

• We are a farmer- owned cooperative. That means we are committed to partnering with farmers so they are guaranteed a fair price for their milk.
• We experimented with poo powered trucks (google it- you won’t regret it), and built the world’s first ever 100% carbon neutral dairy. All as part of our ongoing commitment to combatting climate change.
• We are the producer of Lurpak, one of the world’s most iconic butter brands.
• We are a Danish business, operating across the UK, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, North America, South America and other regions across the globe.

Please apply using the link or reach out to Jess Thwaite, Talent Partner, at [e-mail]

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?

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