Maintenance Engineer (Days)

VickerStock; Northern Ireland; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company in Northern Ireland is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to ensure maximum uptime of machinery during weekdays. The successful candidate will have proven experience in a similar role and be skilled in mechanical fault finding, maintenance, and installation within a high-volume production environment. The role offers a competitive salary of £48k - £50k depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Proven successful experience in a similar role.
• Experience servicing and repairing mechanical and pneumatic systems.
• Experience in a high-volume production environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all scheduled engineering maintenance works are actioned.
• Maximise the utilisation of the site's assets and minimise costs.
• Carry out schedule-based maintenance work on equipment.

Skills

Maintenance Engineer

Mechanical fault finding

Preventive maintenance

Pneumatic systems

Electro-mechanical systems

Job description

Maintenance Engineer (Days)
Monday - Friday
7.30am - 4pm
£48k - £50k DOE

Vickerstock are currently working with a local Northern Ireland success story that is now one of the biggest manufacturers of its kind in Europe.

Our client is a leading provider within their sector with production sites across Africa and Europe. They lead the way in employee retention and development with onsite training and development offered at all levels of the business.

This is a full-time permanent role within their Maintenance department. Your primary focus will be to ensure the maximum uptime of machinery across the weekday shift pattern.

Responsibilities

• 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 with potential equipment/services issues.
• Work with other functions as part of the manufacturing team to ensure efficient running of the equipment and prioritise work as agreed.

As a Maintenance Engineer, ideally you will have

• Proven successful experience in a similar role.
• Experience servicing and repair of 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.

What we hope you will do next

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 Engineers at all levels across Ireland.

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

Skills: Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Technician, Mechatronic Engineer, Shift Engineer