Maintenance Technician

Job Summary 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Technician (referred to internally as Senior Technician) to join our busy Production team at Florette. A key function joining up production and maintenance, your role will be to liaise with the Team Leaders and Maintenance department to ensure our machinery is operating at its full potential. You’ll rectify simple mechanical faults to machinery, plant and equipment ensuring all food safety and hygiene procedures are maintained. You’ll also assist with planned maintenance, asset care and ensure remedial work is completed and logged.

About Us 

Florette is one of three UK food manufacturing factories owned by the French co-operative group, Agrial. Agrial has operations across 18 regions, with 280 farming outlets and 5 different divisions, which comprise Beverage, Dairy, Meat, Fresh Produce & Agricultural operations; it’s not just about lettuce! As well as the 3 factories we also have a farming operation – Agrial Fresh Farms. All UK sites operate under the name of Agrial Fresh Produce Limited and fall under Agrial's vegetable division. 

The business is more recognisable in the UK by its Florette salad brand and we are now one of the UK’s leading producers in the industry. Under the Florette brand, our site processes and distributes pre-packed, ready to eat fresh salad bags to well-known retailers in the UK. We have a recipe for success through our EPIC values and working together as one team. 

Main Responsibilities 

•Organising, setting up and monitoring machinery

•Rectify mechanical faults to machinery, plant and equipment , carry out alterations

•Lead process improvements and CI improvements

•Complete and update tasks as per process confirmation

•Assist to install plant and equipment where required

•Manage the SOP writing programme

•Use computer aided maintenance management system as and when required

•Audit inspections of equipment integrity on a daily basis

•Maintenance following fabric/safety inspections

•Work with the team leaders on plant availability

Skills & Experience

•Relevant engineering apprenticeships, relevant H&S qualification (NEBOSH or IOSH)

•Some engineering background

•Experience in a similar role

•Experience of working in the food industry

•Understand drawings and show ability to interpret information

•Basic and intermediate food hygiene

 
What You Will Get In Return

A competitive salary, inclusion in our annual bonus scheme and a range of employee benefits you’d expect from a market leading business, including:

• Life Assurance - three times your basic salary paid to your nominated beneficiary.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme: providing a Remote GP service along with a 24/7 helpline for financial, legal, medical and life issues.
• A flexible & competitive annual leave entitlement that increases with service and offers an option to purchase additional holiday.
• Personalised training and development.
• Employee discount and salary finance schemes. 
• Recognition awards, an annual volunteering day and a free staff transport service*

*Free Staff Transport Service covering: Lichfield, Tamworth, Burton on Trent, Cannock, Rugeley, Burntwood.

Next Steps 

It’s an exciting time to join our business! We’re looking for positive and innovative people to join our professional team. If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, and want a new challenge we would love for you to join us on our journey!

Please apply directly or alternatively contact Liza Crane, Recruitment Officer for a totally confidential discussion.
 
Note to recruitment agencies: this role is being handled by the company HR team and no agency contact is required. 

Agrial Fresh Produce reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

We are committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of all of our staff. That’s why we’ve taken the Mental Health at Work Commitment and are currently delivering a programme of activities to ensure that everyone can have open and honest conversations about their wellbeing in the workplace and feel supported. We encourage applications from persons with experience of poor mental health and are committed to supporting our employees to fulfil their potential and perform at their best in work.

Agrial Fresh Produce Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer. In addition, as part of Responsible Recruitment, Agrial Fresh Produce Ltd believes in the Employer Pay Principle. No worker should pay for a job – the costs of recruitment should be borne not by the worker but by the employer.