Engineering Performance & Improvement Manager

Are you passionate about driving performance, innovation, and continuous improvement in engineering? We’re looking for an Engineering Performance & Improvement Manager to join our Central Engineering team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of asset care and engineering strategy.

The Role

As part of the Engineering Leadership group, you’ll be at the heart of developing and deploying strategies that enhance asset performance, reliability, and sustainability across multiple sites. You’ll influence, coach, and support site-based Engineering Managers and their teams, ensuring skills, processes, and technologies align with the future needs of the business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Driving improvements in asset performance through effective Asset Care strategy.

• Supporting site teams in developing multi-year engineering and environmental plans.

• Leading continuous improvement programs that deliver sustainable reliability and efficiency gains.

• Developing and embedding robust Condition Based Monitoring and CMMS solutions.

• Driving environmental performance and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.

• Supporting capability development within the Engineering Leadership group and apprenticeship schemes.

• Leading shared inventory rationalisation and optimisation initiatives.

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:

• competitive holiday allowance
• 7% non-contributory pension scheme
• life cover
• healthcare cash back plan
• cycle to work scheme
• subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
• preferential rates with our partners
• annual bonus (as part of the Employee Benefit Trust, based on company performance for the year)
• learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow

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.