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Maintenance & Engineering Planner - Settle

🏒 Arla Foods β€’ πŸ“ Settle, England β€’ πŸ•’ Sep 14, 2026
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Full Benefits Package

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Settle, England
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68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
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Position Overview & Specifications

Benefits

  • Competitive salary (Base Salary)
  • 26 days holiday
  • Annual Pay Review
  • Employer pension matched up to 6% (12% total contributory)
  • X4 annual salary life assurance cover
  • Flexible Benefits- buy up to 5 days annual leave, reward gateway scheme- discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.
  • Strong career development & training (internal and external training)

Arla Foods are one of the world’s biggest dairy producers with 9 large manufacturing sites. Join us and become part of the engineering team at our Settle dairy, the home of Lacto-free, and you'll contribute to making food that is loved by millions. Settle is a 24/7 site with c120 people producing UHT and Lactose free milk for UK and Export markets. We are searching for somebody who has a forward thinking mindset that will look to continuously improve systems and ways of working along with developing themselves and others around them.


Maintenance and engineering Planner:

Scope

  • Prepare planned maintenance work packages incl. labour, spare parts, tools and Control of Work requirements (e.g. permit-to-work, risk assessment, LOTO)
  • Schedule planned maintenance and facilitate agreement with operations & planning
  • Support coordination of improvement projects in Maintenance & Utilities
  • Develop standard work instructions/procedures in Maintenance
  • Support optimisation of spare part inventory
  • Execute maintenance strategy actions
  • Create / change Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) master data
  • Perform role of site CMMS super-user (SAP)
  • Responsible for site CMMS competence and up-skilling

Educational background/Experience

  • You are a motivated team player, who can work on their own initiative
  • Relevant skilled Maintenance/Technical/Engineering education
  • 3-4 years of technical/maintenance experience.
  • Having in depth knowledge and experience with the T.P.M, CMMS specifically S.A.P PM knowledge and Office 365 skills would be highly advantageous
  • Knowledge of LEAN principles.

Apply

Please apply via our website https://www.arla.com/company/job-and-career/ or reach out to Alex Tyrrell @ Alety@arlafoods.com for a confidential chat. The closing date of this role will be 9th June 2023.


Things We’d Love To Tell You About Arla

  • We are a farmer- owned cooperative. That means we are committed to partnering with farmers so they are guaranteed a fair price for their milk.
  • We experimented with poo powered trucks (google it- you won’t regret it), and built the world’s first ever 100% carbon neutral dairy. All as part of our ongoing commitment to combatting climate change.
  • We are the producer of Lurpak, one of the world’s most iconic butter brands.
  • We are a Danish business, operating across the UK, Europe, Asia, The Middle East, North America, South America and other regions across the globe.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?


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Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

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Application & Resume Screening

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2

Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

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Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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