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.

Job Description

The Maintenance Manager will provide leadership and direction for the Engineering Supervisors and Maintenance Engineers on site, create a culture of learning, provide expertise and technical support to improve the reliability of systems, plant and equipment at our Cleckheaton site. 

• Leadership, management, and development of the engineering supervisors
• Ownership of the Engineering KPI's and stats pack, downtime, ppm, corrective and improvement records, revenue cost of asset level
• Working with the Reliability Engineer and Maintenance planner to manage the PPM schedules to improve reliability
• Analysis of downtime 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 regulation's
• Deliver the maintenance KPIs for revenue spend, downtime, PPM, corrective and improvement planned work.
• Site Asset register through the CMMS updated and maintained.
• Service contracts delivered OTIF with no site compliance issues.
• Produce a daily, weekly, monthly report using the stats pack.
• Maintain and improve compliance.
• Set and drive standards and targets for health and safety performance, proactively addressing unsafe plant, equipment, and activities.
• Build reduction of energy and water use, noise pollution and CO2 emissions into projects at concept stage
• Ensure the compliance, competitive advantage, and legality of the site with regards to Food Safety and Culture · Ensure a customer focus mindset is maintained.
• Ensure suitable capability is developed across product quality and standards.
• Actively participate in Quality and Food Safety Audits as required

Qualifications

• 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

Additional Information

What we offer you in return

• Matched pension scheme
• Death in service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Canteen
• Retailer discount platform
• Staff discount 
• And plenty more!