So, what will I be doing?
The Newton Abbot site is at the forefront of our strategy to develop Yeo Valley brand into dessert categories. The site plays a unique role in our operations providing dessert and ice cream capability. The site is in an expansive phase, developing new Customers and growing its outputs.
To ensure we are capable of exceeding our future needs in this key role, you will be responsible for leading and driving improvement in the effectiveness and success of our current maintenance programs, whilst identifying and implementing new maintenance programs that further enhance our site performance and support our future transition to a new PMS system.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and design a robust maintenance system that incorporates preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies supported by effective stock strategies.
- Develop and implement a plan for detailed maintenance that delivers an improvement to the overall equipment efficiency. Merging tasks across equipment to ensure minimal maintenance disruption to production.
- Integrate the maintenance system with the current PMS (PEMAC) and Prepare the PMS information for migration to the new IFS management system.
- Effectively monitor the engineering team’s maintenance service performance against our business KPIs, identifying and leading improvement plans. Develop suitable performance measurement tools.
- Support and coach the engineering team to deliver effective maintenance which will increase equipment performance whilst minimising downtime.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, analyse business processes, and identify key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring system effectiveness
- Write detailed Job Information Cards (JIC) for all maintenance activities utilising a template to ensure continuity for all JIC’s.
- Review and develop risk assessments for all maintenance tasks. Ensuring that the RA and JIC’s work complementary to each other and are fit for purpose.
Sounds interesting, what do I need?
Essential:
- Proven experience of best maintenance practices
- Proven experience in writing clear engineering instructions
- Proven experience of leading Continuous Improvement of systems
Desirable:
- Background in FMCG
- Proven experience as a successful cultural change agent
Leadership Principles:
- Everyone is the same; We’re all human, with similar needs
- Humble, high performing leadership; We don’t rely on hierarchies and have high expectations of ourselves
- Transparency; We share as much information as possible
- Listen first; We actively seek feedback from as many colleagues as possible on our performance, the business and the work experience
- Inclusivity; We value the contribution that every individual can make -bringing different skills, perspectives, personalities and cultures to help our business flourish
- Trust; We have faith in each other to do the right thing
- Good humor and generosity; Working here should be fun, we recognize the importance of small acts of generosity, celebrating success and focusing on the value of spend and not just the cost
Personal contribution attributes:
- Insightful; Substantiates intuition, vision and action with data led validation to provide compelling cases
- Commercially astute; Demonstrates an ability to priorities both short and long term actions against an accurate assessment of organizational impact
- Engaging; Excellent listening, communication and influencing skills, in all environments; individuals, large groups and small teams
- Collaborative; works effectively with colleagues from across all levels and disciplines within the site
- Motivational; Displays energy and inner confidence which inspires others
- Confident and assertive; Drives action to yield improvement and address issues
- Resilient and tenacious; Overcomes obstacles and challenges to meet objectives
Why should I join the family?
We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.
We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:
- competitive holiday allowance
- non-contributory pension scheme
- life cover
- healthcare cash back plan
- cycle to work scheme
- subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
- preferential rates with our partners
- learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow
Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!
Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.
Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction