Multi Skilled Engineering Technician
Arla Foods, Lockerbie Dairy & Creamery
Shift based role: 12 hour shifts, days & nights
Benefits
1. Competitive salary (base & shift allowance)
2. 24 days holiday
3. Annual Pay review
4. Employer pension matched up to 6% (12% total contributory)
5. X4 annual salary life assurance cover
6. Flexible Benefits- buy additional annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform
7. Subsidized staff canteen
8. Access to discounted Arla products
What will the role look like?
You will get the chance to work at one of Arla’s largest Dairies with state of the art equipment and solid career development. As a Multi- Skilled Engineer at Arla, you will save the day if there is a breakdown as well as participating in planned preventative maintenance. Alongside your day to day, you’ll get involved in Continuous Improvement and project work, contributing to Arla’s continued growth.
You will be working on equipment including: Milk pasteurisation, homogenisers, separators process systems, filers, Slicers, cartoners, bottle labellers, cappers, packers, blow moulding machines, weighers, flow wrappers, shrink wrappers, trolley packers. Palletisers, de-palletisers, conveyor lines (chain, spiral), robots (Kuka), vision systems, Spectrum TX rejection systems / OEMS such as Siemens, Krones, Tetra Pak, SPX flow, ISOMA, Hueft, Nepas, Alpla & Grunwald.
What you’ll need in order to be successful in the role
9. Ambition & drive
10. Strong experience as a multiskilled engineer (shift engineer/ maintenance engineer/ engineering technician and the likes)
11. Experience in mechanical and electrical engineering within Manufacturing, Production and Process environments
12. HNC or apprentice trained or proven experience with fast paced manufacturing environment
13. Ideally you will have experience with fast- moving machinery, pumps, valves, inverter drives, sensors, relays, PLC’s (Siemens), Site Services (steam generation plant, chilled water systems, com-pressors, processes), CIP systems (chemical cleaning plant)
14. Computer literate – SAP, Microsoft Office, SCADA, Trend systems, HMI’S
15. Time served as Multi- Skilled Engineer within a manufacturing environment.
Things we’d love to tell you about our Lockerbie site
16. Arla Lockerbie has received c.£73.8 million investment since 2005
17. 60% of our colleagues at Lockerbie have over 10 years’ service
18. 75,000 cows depend on our Lockerbie site to process their milk daily
19. If you piled the blocks of cheese we make at Lockerbie in a year end to end, the height would be equivalent to 2,428 Eiffel Towers
20. The amount of whey concentrate site produces each year would fill 4 Olympic size (50 meter) swimming pools
21. Our Arla Lockerbie site was open by HRH Queen Elizabeth in 1975
Things We’d Love To Tell You About Arla
22. We are a farmer- owned cooperative. That means we are committed to partnering with farmers so they are guaranteed a fair price for their milk.
23. We experimented with poo powered trucks (google it- you won’t regret it), and built the world’s first ever 100% carbon neutral dairy. All as part of our ongoing commitment to combatting climate change.
24. We are the producer of Lurpak, one of the world’s most iconic butter brands.
25. We are a Danish business, operating across the UK, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, North America, South America and other regions across the globe.