Title:  Maintenance Excellence Manager

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:

Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

Maintenance Excellence Manager – Butter Plant

Market Drayton – TF9 3SQ

Monday – Friday

Due to increased headcount we are recruiting for a Maintenance Excellence Manager to join our Butter plant at our flagship site in Market Drayton. The purpose of the Maintenance Excellence Manager is to service and repair all machinery in area of responsibility, whilst actively seeking and implementing new improvement methods to increase reliability and improve efficiencies. 

Your challenge in the role of Maintenance Excellence Manager:

• Develop and drive the annual implementation plan for Maintenance Excellence Roadmap
• Implement and effectively establish key engineering processes, in line with Maintenance Excellence roadmap requirements
• Facilitate annual Criticality Matrix reviews
• Develop enhanced usage of the site CMMS
• Develop a 'top loss' analysis culture utilising site operational measures
• Drive implementation of the Inventory Management Plan
• Support implementation of site Autonomous Maintenance
• Developing standard setup routines for critical equipment.
• Drive utilisation of Root Cause Analysis techniques
• Develop line performance improvement plans based on top loss analysis
• Review maintenance activities and identify opportunities to improve cost effectiveness
• RCA/5 why analysis/problem solving techniques.
• Support the site and departmental 5s programme.
• Drive and support Reliability Centred Maintenance/FMECA activities

Maintenance Excellence Manager Responsibilities:

• Drive planned and reactive works through weekly planning cycle
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues
• Sponsor of Operational Excellence principles in everything that we do. Delivers local site asset improvement projects to budget. Encourage engineering based OE projects.
• Utilises all available opportunities, enabling others to improve the way we do things
• Ensures own activities are aligned to overall business objectives and knows how current performance impacts the bottom line
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business

The ideal candidate for the role of Maintenance Excellence Manager is somebody who is OPEX trained with experience in a similar CI position within FMCG, with a desire to implement change and a strong team player. Due to this being a new role we’re seeking somebody who is a self-starter and can think outside of the box.

What do you get out of being a Maintenance Excellence Manager at Muller?

• 33 days annual leave (inclusive of bank hols)
• 10* annual bonus*
• 4 x life assurance
• Health care cover provided by BUPA
• Career development within an established business
• Onsite subsidised canteen
• Free secure parking
• Friendly and professional working environment

Contact Details:

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ