Skilled Engineer

Company: Yeo Valley Organic
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Location: Uplyme
Job Description:

Overview

At Yeo Valley, we are an organic dairy company committed to sustainability, ethics, and quality food that nurtures people and the planet. As a family‑run business, we value people at the heart of everything we do.

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrate commitment to people and food safety through own working practices and standards in line with legislative, company and working procedures.
  • Engage in the development and support of a reliability‑centered approach to asset maintenance.
  • Effectively deliver 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 manage tasks and resources.
  • Work in partnership with the site teams to develop knowledge and understanding of 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 and support the ongoing development of a high‑performing workplace.
  • Engage in and actively support project delivery across the site.
  • Effectively use and interact 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.

Essential Qualifications

  • Apprenticeship or equivalent level of training in a single engineering discipline.
  • Demonstrable 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 Qualifications

  • 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.

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Posted: July 19th, 2026