Maintenance Manager

At Valeo Foods UK we bring together a family of much-loved UK food brands supported by the scale and ambition of a global investment partner. From Kettle’s bold crunch to Rowse’s natural sweetness, through to Matthew Walker and Barratt Sweets, our portfolio blends heritage, craft and category-leading innovation.

Alongside our branded portfolio, we are also one of the UK’s largest suppliers of private label products, partnering with major retailers to deliver quality and category expertise that meets the needs of millions of households every week.

As a business, we’re on a journey of transformation. We’re strengthening our operations, driving quality and investing in our people. It’s an exciting, fast-moving environment where heritage meets new thinking, and where every colleague contributes to shaping the future of food across the UK.

Join us and play your part in building the next chapter of some of Britain’s most loved brands.

• Leadership, management, and development of the Engineering supervisors
• Ownership of the Engineering KPIs and Stats pack, downtime, ppm, corrective and improvement records, revenue cost at asset level
• Working with the Reliability Engineer & Maintenance planner to manage the PPM schedules to improve reliability
• Analysis of downtime time reports, carry out TOP 3 reviews daily, weekly monthly, annual by area and action corrective, remedial and improvement through the maintenance teams
• Maintaining liaison with outside contractors, suppliers, and representatives of other companies on matters as general maintenance as well as compliance with standards, specifications, and regulations
• Participating in cross-functional teams to optimise plant design, improvements, cost effectiveness, reliability, operability, and maintainability
• Co-coordinating with Technical and Health and Safety Departments throughout project duration
• Establishing and Maintaining planned and predictive maintenance programmes for manufacturing equipment.
• Delivering Maintenance assessments, FMEA, RCM etc.
• Coordinating condition based monitoring ensuring closure of all identified works.
• Conducting and ensuring Root cause analysis of breakdowns and equipment failures, implementing initiatives to remove reoccurrence.
• Identification and management of spare parts to ensure zero downtime of production equipment due spare part availability. Managing and highlighting Critical spare part management.
• Maintain relationship with OEM’s and contractors to ensure ongoing support and compliance with equipment.
• Lead Reliability and CI projects.
• Work in a cross functional teams to drive reliability, CI, maintainability and operability of equipment.

• Full time served apprenticeship minimum NVQ level 3.
• Working knowledge of CMMS
• Demonstrated knowledge of understanding areas of quality control, health, safety, environment, and effective cost management
• Strong IT skills (MS Office)
• Ability to engage front line Engineers and mobilize teams in pursuit of common goals.
• Ability to influence cross functional working across teams/sites
• Excellent organisational skills, including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills

Apply today for immediate consideration!