At Saputo, we bring good to the table by making high-quality products, investing in our people, and supporting communities around the world . As a top 10 global dairy processor, we value contributions that matter and strive to foster an inclusive, growth-driven work environment. Ready to bring your best?
SDUK’s brands include the Nation’s favourite cheese brand Cathedral City plus other well-known butter & spreads (Clover, Country Life, Vitalite, Utterly Butterly), functional ingredients and dairy free products.
This role, (internally titled as maintenance lead, proactive) is a management position that will lead the proactive engineering team towards delivering incremental and significant improvement opportunities across the site, utilising strong influencing skills, data and analytical skills.
Working across 16 lines with varying levels of automation (13 of which have been installed over the past 2.5 years), the position will be key in ensuring we build a strong preventative and proactive strategy that is fit for purpose, can be evolved, and will work towards the continued reduction of unplanned downtime.
Leading a team consisting of controls, asset care, and process improvement engineers, this role will benefit an engineer with management experience and a mechanical bias to identify opportunities for innovation to engineer out any problems. A background in reactive maintenance is suitable, as long as you also have a strong understanding of preventative and proactive practices.

• Educated in a relevant field (apprenticeship to NHD level or equivalent, or a strong graduate) with relevant practical engineering experience within a production/manufacturing environment
• An experienced manager, leading mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams
• Able to demonstrate expertise with proactive and preventative practices
• A strong communicator with experience effectively influencing senior members to deliver change
• Experienced leading and delivering CI projects and delivering a culture change
• A strong analytical thinker, driven by data, with strong planning and decision-making skills
• Able to demonstrate a detailed understanding of the site safety, technical and (ideally) food manufacturing standards to ensure your team is always complaint