Allied Bakeries are owned by Associated British Foods. ABF is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of £20.1bn and 138,000 employees in 56 countries. It has significant businesses in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and Australia. Our sister companies in ABF UK Grocery produce products under many market-leading household brands, including Jordans, Ryvita, Pataks, Blue Dragon & Silver Spoon.
We are proud of our brands: we make top 10 UK grocery brand Kingsmill as well as Allinson’s, Bürgen and Sunblest. You’ll know us best through our white, wholemeal and seeded market-leading loaves, as well as Kingsmill 50/50, the nation’s favourite Healthier White, and our delicious pancakes, crumpets, hot cross buns and other bakery products.
The success of our business depends on us having the right people on the team. We are incredibly passionate about our business, but it isn’t for the faint-hearted – it’s pacey and demanding so our people need to have a positive attitude and to want to work inclusively. We take massive pride in what we do, not least in how colleagues based in our bakeries and depots have one of the best safety performance records in the industry.
Our Grocery Service Centre, based near Liverpool, is a hub for transactional activity across multiple ABF companies within the ABF Grocery division. Supporting some of our well-known brands such as Kingsmill, Pataks, Blue Dragon, Jordans, Ryvita and Silver Spoon, amongst others. We deliver Shared Service activities across a wide range of disciplines including Customer Services, Consumer Care, Finance, Payroll, HR and IS.
If you’re looking to join a business that is passionate, encourages you to be the best you can be, and values its people, we’d love to hear from you.
Overview Of Role
Location: West Bromwich, West Midlands
An exciting opportunity for a proactive and experienced Maintenance Manager to lead our maintenance operations in a fast-paced bakery manufacturing operation. This role is critical to ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and safety of all plant equipment and infrastructure, supporting continuous production and high-quality output.
Key Accountabilities
Safety Culture: Drive a safety culture by improving and maintaining a safe working environment, ensuring all team members are aware and complying with health and safety standards, legal and company requirements.
Team Leadership: Inspire and empower the Shift Engineering team through effective leadership, coaching, and development to ensure high levels of performance and compliance, in turn delivering on required KPI’s.
Strategic Management: Collaborate with operations management team to define and execute food safety standards. Monitor performance metrics and implement improvement plans where necessary.
Operations Management: Develop and implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs to minimis downtime, coordinating with manufacturing, quality, and engineering teams to resolve issues and improve processes. To monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to equipment reliability and maintenance efficiency.
Project and Contractor Management: Successfully deliver Engineering projects and coordinate safety activity of all contractors on site
Continuous Improvement: Utilise thorough RCA techniques to ensure appropriate learnings are taken from events and strive to implement Engineering best practice where possible.
The Right Person
Health & Safety Management – Strong practical knowledge of UK H&S legislation (e.g. LOLER, PSSR, DSEAR). This includes conducting comprehensive risk assessments (examples)
Food Safety & Quality – Good knowledge of food safety management standards, ability to manage audits, both internal and external and stock control.
Successful Leadership experience in a commercially challenging, results driven and fast paced food manufacturing environment with good communication and interpersonal skills.
Strong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and automation systems and familiarity with CMMS systems.
Relevant engineering qualifications (e.g., Engineering Degree or HND in a relevant engineering discipline).
Experience at leading Project Management and Continuous Improvement process
