Maintenance Technician

Allied Mills | part of Associated British Foods plc; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday entitlement

Job summary

Allied Mills, part of Associated British Foods, invites applications for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician at our Trafford Park mill in Manchester. You will perform planned, predictive and reactive maintenance to keep production running safely and efficiently, ensuring compliance with quality and legal standards.

The role requires hands-on repairs, regular inspections and collaboration across departments.

Qualifications

• A recognised engineering apprenticeship with formal qualification.
• Experience as a maintenance engineer in FMCG/food/drink environments.
• Experience with 3-phase motors, PLCs and pneumatic systems.
• Good computer literacy and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Operate to site quality, environmental and safety procedures.
• Contribute to continual improvement of plant and processes across departments/sites.
• Perform daily monitoring inspections and self-audits on a weekly rota.
• Respond quickly to unscheduled plant stoppages and faults.
• Record labour and materials in Maximo; carry out PM/PdM as required.
• Carry out repairs to plant equipment and services safely and efficiently.
• Assist in budgeting and cost reduction initiatives.

Skills

Customer focus

Self-motivated

Maintenance engineer experience

Computer literate

Engineering apprenticeship

3-phase motor control

Pneumatic control systems

Drive couplings and belts

Compressed air systems

Education

Engineering apprenticeship

Tools

Maximo maintenance software

Job description

Allied Mills is part of Associated British Foods and operates seven modern flour milling units across three production sites in Belfast, Manchester and Tilbury. We are also one of a very limited number of businesses able to produce semolina from Durum wheat in one of our specialist mills. Allied Mills is the UK’s third largest miller and mills wheat for everything from bread to bagels, baguettes and biscuits, pasties to pastries, doughnuts, cookies, burger buns and pizzas, naan bread and chapattis, noodles and pasta. The majority of our flour goes into household bread brands such as Kingsmill soft white bread, Kingsmill 50/50, Allinson’s and many more.
Our people are our standards, and that’s why we’re ABF’s Miller of Choice. Through an inclusive culture and investment in our people and technology, we aim to deliver the highest standards in product quality and food safety, customer service and product development. Our aim is to ensure safety and business sustainability for our people, our customers, our neighbours and the environment. If you want to be part of a team who loves what they do and is proud of the role they play in the country’s food supply chain, we’d love to hear from you.
Allied Mills are owned by Associated British Foods. ABF is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £20.1bn and 188,000 employees in 56 countries. It has significant businesses in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Our sister companies in ABF UK Grocery produce products under many market-leading household brands, including Jordans, Ryvita, Pataks, Blue Dragon & Silver Spoon.

Overview Of Role

Company: Allied Mills
Location: Trafford Park, Manchester
Hours: Monday to Friday (7am - 3:30pm, with a late week and call out rota)
Holiday Entitlement: 25 days exclusive of bank holidays
We have a great opportunity for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician to join an experienced team, providing a first-class service at our flour mill. In this role, the successful candidate will be expected to carry out planned, predictive and reactive maintenance tasks in line with safety and quality standards, to ensure the long term maximum utilisation of the production plant and its compliance with statutory legal requirements and to contribute to the continual improvement of the plant.

Key Accountabilities

• Operate to procedures as defined within site quality, environmental and health and safety systems and standards.
• Contribute to continual improvement of the plant, processes and working environment through generating and implementing improvements and working collaboratively across departments/sites.
• Carries out daily monitoring inspections and self-audits in each area of the plant on a weekly rota.
• Responding quickly and efficiently to any unscheduled plant stoppages.
• Using the Maximo system, ensuring labour and material expended are recorded and PPM/PdM are carried out for all areas of the site.
• Safely carry out all repairs to plant equipment and services as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• Participating in the efficient running of the maintenance department, including; housekeeping, planning of work, use of tools and control of spare parts and materials.
• Participating in the call out program for maintenance faults.
• Analysing and rectifying plant/process defects in a timely manner using RCA where applicable.
• Working within budget and reducing costs wherever possible.

The Right Person

• A great customer focus with a flexible and adaptable approach.
• Self-motivated and able to work on your own initiative, be punctual and reliable.
• Experience as a maintenance engineer in an operational environment preferably FMCG, Food or drink.
• Computer literate.
• A recognised engineering apprenticeship, with a formal qualification.
• Experience of industrial 3 phase motor and control systems and their interaction with modern PLC systems.
• Experience of a plant with pneumatic control and operation and common industrial bearing systems
• Experience of replacing common mechanical drive couplings, chains, belts, rolling element bearings.
• Experience of compressed air systems, pneumatic components and steam rising plant.