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About the Role
Lead a team of technicians and frontline colleagues responsible for maintaining and improving the site's dairy processing equipment, ensuring safe operations, technical excellence, and continuous improvement in line with site and departmental goals.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring continuity and improvement of daily operations as a people manager.
- Maintaining safe working conditions and supporting LEAN, food safety and quality standards.
- Leading 2nd-line fault finding and coordinating technical resource prioritisation, maintaining, troubleshooting and improving dairy processing equipment.
- Planning, improving and executing equipment maintenance aligned with departmental strategy.
- Leading, coaching and developing your team in accordance with Good Leadership and Good Values.
Requirements
- Strong technical foundation and experience within maintenance or engineering.
- People-centred and structured leadership approach.
- Ability to balance hands-on problem solving with strategic priorities.
- Foster a culture of safety, digital adoption and continuous improvement.
- Experience working with process plant and dairy manufacturing equipment.
- Several years of professional experience (typically 3-5 years for university graduates or >10 years for technically trained profiles).
- Skilled technical education, technical engineering qualification or an engineering apprenticeship.
- 1-3 years of technical and/or maintenance experience following training.
- Preferably some prior leadership experience.
- Demonstrate practical use of LEAN ways of working.
- Safety-first, inclusive and people-focused mindset.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively.
- Strong commitment to continuous improvement.
- Openness to digital tools and data-driven decision making.
Skills
- Maintenance
- Engineering
- Leadership
- Problem Solving
- LEAN
- Digital Adoption
- Continuous Improvement
- Dairy Manufacturing Equipment
- Process Plant
- Fault Finding
- Technical Resource Prioritisation
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Data-Driven Decision Making
Location
- North London
Work Type
- Monday-Friday days based role
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years (university graduates)
-
10 years (technically trained profiles)
- 1-3 years post-training technical/maintenance experience
- Prior leadership experience preferred
Education Level
- Skilled technical education
- Technical engineering qualification
- Engineering apprenticeship
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Internal and external training opportunities
- 26 days holiday
- Matched pension contributions up to 6%
- Life assurance
- Flexible benefits
About the Company
- Arla is a global leader in the dairy industry, committed to enabling good food choices that make life better.
- Ambitious global cooperative that truly cares about your growth.
- Values collaboration as the core of its culture.
- High job satisfaction and steep learning curve.