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Multi-Skilled Utilities Technician

Manufacturing & Production · Quality & Process · Maintenance & Reliability

In short

Arla seeks a Multi-Skilled Utilities Technician in Leeds to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant operation of critical utility systems in a manufacturing environment. This role involves proactive maintenance, reliability improvements, and asset ownership, with participation in on-call and weekend cover rotations.

Responsibilities

  • Own the performance, reliability, and condition of designated utility assets and plant rooms.
  • Execute planned preventative maintenance, fault finding, and reliability improvement activities across utilities systems.
  • Ensure statutory inspections, compliance actions, and maintenance requirements remain fully up to date.
  • Coordinate and manage specialist contractors, ensuring work is completed safely and to required standards.
  • Drive root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime and improve asset performance.

Requirements

  • Recognised engineering qualification, ideally electrical.
  • Experience in manufacturing, food, FMCG, or industrial environments.
  • Strong fault-finding capability.
  • Contractor management experience.
  • Good understanding of preventative maintenance principles.
  • Ability to take ownership, approach problems systematically, and work collaboratively.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with utilities systems such as steam generation, refrigeration, boilers, compressed air, HVAC, CHP, water treatment, electrical distribution, or building services infrastructure would be highly advantageous.
  • Exposure to CMMS systems.
  • Exposure to RCA methodologies.
  • Exposure to continuous improvement activities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to take genuine ownership of critical infrastructure assets.
  • Empowerment to influence maintenance strategy, improve reliability, and deliver measurable operational improvements.
  • Commitment to professional development and promoting from within.
  • Collaborative culture encouraging knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and technical growth.
  • Join a market-leading organisation where engineering excellence and operational reliability are highly valued.
  • Monday-Friday days role working 37.5 hours per week.
  • Participation in a 1-in-4 on-call rota.
  • Participation in a 1-in-4 weekend cover rotation.
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About Arla

We are more than 23,000 colleagues across 39 countries and 7,624 dairy farmer-owners in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. We aim to create the future of dairy, to bring healthy and sustainable dairy products to people across the world, and to lead the transition towards sustainable dairy farming and production. We work continuously on the farms, at the dairies, and in our administration to reduce our carbon footprint and environmental impact. We are committed to champion good food habits and inspire a healthy life. We collaborate with NGOs and…

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Company

Arla

Job Posted

1 month ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Work mode

On Site

Hours per week

37.5

Experience Level

Mid-Senior

Locations

Leeds, United Kingdom

Qualification

Diploma

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