Skilled Engineer

Company: Yeo Valley Organic
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Location: Uplyme
Job Description:

So, what will I be doing?

Your Responsibilities

  • Demonstrate commitment to people and food safety through own working practices and standards in line with legislative, company and working procedures.
  • Engagement in the development and support of a reliability centered approach to asset maintenance.
  • Effective delivery of asset care through the application and completion of planned, unplanned, predictive and preventative engineering activity to a high standard.
  • Collaborate with other teams and colleagues to effectively manage tasks and resources.
  • Work in partnership with the site teams to develop knowledge and understanding in self and others of the assets and processes.
  • Use problem solving techniques and root cause analysis to prevent, detect and eliminate faults, abnormalities and inefficiencies.
  • Proactively participate in departmental and cross functional activity to deliver continuous improvement to support the ongoing development of a high performing workplace.
  • Engage in and actively support project delivery across the site.
  • Effective use and interaction with business systems to build, develop and make use of asset and performance data.
  • Embrace and understand site, departmental and individual performance measures and the personal contribution to each.

Sounds interesting, what do I need?

Essential

  • Apprenticeship or equivalent level of training in a single engineering discipline.
  • Demonstratable capability and application of engineering knowledge in applied skills.
  • Previous experience of working in a manufacturing/production environment.
  • Proactive approach to asset care.
  • Logical approach to fault finding.
  • Provides support and knowledge as a resource to others within own team.

Desirable

  • Developed knowledge and application of RCM.
  • Advanced fault finding techniques.
  • Developed knowledge of Condition Based Monitoring.
  • Best practice in asset care.

Benefits

  • Competitive holiday allowance.
  • Non-contributory pension scheme.
  • Life cover.
  • Healthcare cash back plan.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services.
  • Preferential rates with our partners.
  • Learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow.

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

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Posted: June 21st, 2026