Multi-Skilled Engineer

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.

Sunday - Thursday Alternating 06:00 - 14:00hrs & 14:00 - 22:00hrs

40 hours

What you'll be doing:

• Daily repair of machinery and carrying out proactive tasks when possible
• Planning and Monitoring machine performance
• Monitoring failure
• Supporting External Contractors
• Technical support for production when required
• To maintain the highest standards in housekeeping, adopting a clean as you go policy.
• To maintain the highest standards when completing paperwork and works sign off.

Key areas of the role:

• H&S and safe work practices
• Food safety, minimizing day to day risks with running of the plant and involving contractors
• Plan is king, ensure that the company can hit its required targets
• Firefighting machinery / site services upkeep and carrying out ongoing maintenance PPM in a timely manner
• Promote and contribute to the continuous improvement of the running of the company
• Minimize down time
• Train / guide production staff in the correct way to treat our machinery and help train our maintenance technicians from within our department.
• Work on projects as allocated by the Engineering Manager
• Any other duties as requested by the Engineering Manager

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Relevant engineering qualification
• Able to prove competency in all forms of isolation, electrical safety and safe panel entry
• Experience of FMCG operations
• PC Literate (thereby able to use computer-based maintenance systems)
• Flexibility
• Health and Safety driven
• Able to strip machines in full and reassemble them, as well as completing machine size change procedures and their adjustments