Multi-Skilled Engineer

Are you a hands-on problem-solver with a passion for engineering and continuous improvement? Join our team at Yeo Valley’s Blagdon site, where quality, sustainability, and innovation are at the heart of everything we do.

We’re looking for a Multi-Skilled Engineer to support and maintain our production operations, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently – from reactive repairs to preventative maintenance.

Shift Pattern: 4 on, 4 off (2 days followed by 2 nights). 12 hours shifts (with optional overtime)

Key responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out both electrical and mechanical maintenance on a wide range of production equipment.
• Minimising down time and fault finding on a range of machinery in a fast paced and large-scale manufacturing environment
• Assisting with root cause analysis, continuous improvement and general daily operational efficiencies
• Assisting with project work as and when required, including the introduction of new plant and equipment

• Experience working as a Maintenance Engineer 
• An appropriate Engineering qualification
• Knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety
• Ideally you will have worked in food manufacturing or FMCG production environments previously, however this is not absolutely necessary
• Preferably multi-skilled (mechanical/electrical)
• PLC experience would be a bonus

We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1700 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.

We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer including:

Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away – and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!

Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.

Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.