Senior Shift Process Technician, Arla – Oakthorpe Dairy (N13 6BU)
12 hour days and night shifts.
How You Will Make An Impact
As a Senior Shift Process Technician, you’ll provide essential support across the site, responding to breakdowns, delivering planned preventative maintenance, and ensuring our automated processing and packaging equipment operates safely and efficiently. Alongside your day‑to‑day responsibilities, you’ll contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and support project work that drives long‑term site performance.
- Providing critical breakdown support and delivering planned preventative maintenance across processing
- Ensuring safe, efficient operation of machinery including pasteurisers, homogenisers, separators, valves, and instrumentation
- Providing technical support to colleagues
- Supporting CI initiatives and engineering projects to improve reliability and performance
- Collaborating with colleagues across engineering and production to maintain a safe, compliant and high‑performing environment
This role sits within the Engineering team at Arla’s Oakthorpe Dairy.
What will make you successful?
You’ll bring strong mechanical and electrical engineering experience from a fast‑paced manufacturing environment, ideally within food, FMCG or process industries. You’ll be confident working with complex machinery, proactive in your approach, and motivated by solving problems and improving performance. To succeed in this role, you will have completed a time‑served apprenticeship, hold an NVQ Level 3, or bring equivalent experience gained in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment. You’ll have strong experience as a multiskilled engineer—whether as a shift engineer, maintenance engineer or engineering technician— with a solid background in both mechanical and electrical engineering across manufacturing, production or process settings. You should also have experience working with fast‑moving machinery, pumps, valves, hydraulics, pneumatics, three‑phase motors, variable speed drives, inverter drives, sensors, relays, Siemens PLCs, site services such as steam, chilled water and compressors, as well as CIP systems. Strong computer literacy is also important, including familiarity with SAP, Microsoft Office, SCADA, Trend systems and HMIs.
What do we offer?
We’re committed to your growth and development, offering internal and external training opportunities. You’ll enjoy a competitive salary, 26 days holiday, matched pension contributions up to 6%, life assurance, and flexible benefits.
For additional information, please contact Chris Wakefield at chwak@arlafoods.com.
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