Maintenance Engineer

Vickerstock; Portadown; On-site; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food market is seeking a Maintenance Engineer for their Night Shift Pattern in Portadown. The role involves ensuring scheduled engineering maintenance, fault finding on mechanical systems, and working towards energy reduction efforts. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in a similar role and skills in maintaining various systems within a high-volume production environment.

Qualifications

• Proven successful experience in a similar role.
• Experience servicing and repair of electrical, electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic systems.
• Experience in high-volume production environments.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all scheduled engineering maintenance works including diagnostic fault analysis are actioned.
• Maximise site's assets and minimize costs in collaboration with management.
• Fault find mechanical and electrical faults and repair equipment in breakdown situations.

Skills

Mechanical fault finding

Electrical systems servicing

Pneumatic systems maintenance

Preventive maintenance

Job description

Maintenance Engineer
Monday to Friday
Portadown
Mechanical or Electrical
£48k

Vickerstock are working in partnership with a household brand within the food market to assist them recruit a Maintenance Engineer for their Night Shift Pattern.

With excellence and quality at their core they aim to provide a market leading service to their customer within the chilled, retail and service sectors.

You will join a talented maintenance team that will challenge you to grow, refine your skills, and advance your career. As part of a nationally recognised employer of choice, you'll benefit from a company that prioritises the growth and development of its people.

Your Responsibilities as a Maintenance Engineer;

• Work continuously to ensure that all scheduled engineering maintenance works including diagnostic fault analysis are actioned.
• In conjunction with the Engineering Management and Production Manager, maximise the utilisation of the site's assets while taking all opportunities to minimise costs.
• Help drive the site's Net Zero Energy efforts by exploring and taking all available opportunities to reduce energy usage.
• Ensure the upkeep of the assets and fabric of the site.
• Carry out schedule-based maintenance work on equipment, buildings and services and repairs, overhauls and installations as appropriate. General maintenance and breakdown activities, resolving causes of defects for allocated cell/area.
• Fault find mechanical and/or electrical faults and repair equipment in a breakdown situation. Deliver sufficient callout support and handovers to ensure reliability and performance of the plant's machinery in line with agreed service levels.
• Proactively identify and deal rectify potential equipment/services issues
• Work with other functions as part of the manufacturing team to ensure efficient running of the equipment and prioritize work as agreed.

As a Maintenance Engineer, ideally you will have;

• Proven successful experience in a similar role.
• Experience servicing and repair of electrical, electronic, mechanical, electro-mechanical and pneumatic systems.
• Experience in working in a high-volume production environment with automated machinery.
• Mechanical fault finding, maintenance and installation.
• Experience in carrying out preventive Maintenance on motors, gearboxes, conveyor systems, rollers and pneumatic/hydraulic systems.
• Adjust and calibrate equipment and machinery to optimal specifications.

Contact Warren Watson to discuss this in absolute confidence or send an updated CV via the link on the page.

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As an experienced specialist senior engineering and manufacturing recruitment professional with 7 years' experience; I personally specialise within the recruitment of Maintenance & Service Engineers at all levels across Ireland.

If you are interested in this vacancy, or work within Lean Engineering / Manufacturing in Ireland, then please apply with your CV to me for consideration - (You can also find and connect with me on LinkedIn)