Allied Mills | part of Associated British Foods plc
Maintenance Technician
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Allied Mills is part of Associated British Foods and operates seven modern flour milling units across three production sites in Belfast, Manchester, and Tilbury. We are also one of a very limited number of businesses able to produce semolina from Durum wheat in one of our specialist mills. Allied Mills is the UK’s third-largest miller and mills wheat for everything from bread to bagels, baguettes and biscuits, pasties to pastries, doughnuts, cookies, burger buns, and pizzas, naan bread and chapattis, noodles, and pasta. The majority of our flour goes into household bread brands such as Kingsmill soft white bread, Kingsmill 50/50, Allinson’s, and many more.
Our people are our standards, and that’s why we’re ABF’s Miller of Choice. Through an inclusive culture and investment in our people and technology, we aim to deliver the highest standards in product quality and food safety, customer service, and product development. Our aim is to ensure safety and business sustainability for our people, our customers, our neighbours, and the environment. If you want to be part of a team who loves what they do and is proud of the role they play in the country’s food supply chain, we’d love to hear from you.
Allied Mills are owned by Associated British Foods. ABF is a diversified international food, ingredients, and retail group with sales of £20.1bn and 188,000 employees in 56 countries. It has significant businesses in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Australia. Our sister companies in ABF UK Grocery produce products under many market-leading household brands, including Jordans, Ryvita, Pataks, Blue Dragon & Silver Spoon.
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Overview Of Role
Company: Allied Mills
Location: Trafford Park, Manchester
Hours: Monday to Friday (7am - 3:30pm, with a late week and call out rota)
Holiday Entitlement: 25 days exclusive of bank holidays
We have a great opportunity for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician to join an experienced team, providing a first-class service at our flour mill. In this role, the successful candidate will be expected to carry out planned, predictive, and reactive maintenance tasks in line with safety and quality standards, to ensure the long-term maximum utilisation of the production plant and its compliance with statutory legal requirements and to contribute to the continual improvement of the plant.
Key Accountabilities
- Operate to procedures as defined within site quality, environmental, and health and safety systems and standards.
- Contribute to continual improvement of the plant, processes, and working environment through generating and implementing improvements and working collaboratively across departments/sites.
- Carries out daily monitoring inspections and self-audits in each area of the plant on a weekly rota.
- Responding quickly and efficiently to any unscheduled plant stoppages.
- Using the Maximo system, ensuring labour and material expended are recorded and PPM/PdM are carried out for all areas of the site.
- Safely carry out all repairs to plant equipment and services as quickly and efficiently as possible.
- Participating in the efficient running of the maintenance department, including; housekeeping, planning of work, use of tools, and control of spare parts and materials.
- Participating in the call-out program for maintenance faults.
- Analysing and rectifying plant/process defects in a timely manner using RCA where applicable.
- Working within budget and reducing costs wherever possible.
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The Right Person
- A great customer focus with a flexible and adaptable approach.
- Self-motivated and able to work on your own initiative, be punctual, and reliable.
- Experience as a maintenance engineer in an operational environment, preferably FMCG, Food, or drink.
- Computer literate.
- A recognised engineering apprenticeship, with a formal qualification.
- Experience of industrial 3 phase motor and control systems and their interaction with modern PLC systems.
- Experience of a plant with pneumatic control and operation and common industrial bearing systems.
- Experience of replacing common mechanical drive couplings, chains, belts, rolling element bearings.
- Experience of compressed air systems, pneumatic components, and steam rising plant.
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