Maintenance Technician

Kerry; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Matched pension

Udemy learning resources

Discounts & cashback platform

Job summary

Kerry is recruiting a Maintenance Technician for the Hartlepool site. The role focuses on maintaining plant equipment and systems, providing emergency response support to operations, and driving improvements to reduce downtime and waste.

It is a dayshift, 8 hour role within a safety-conscious manufacturing environment. You will perform planned maintenance, contribute to reliability improvements, and ensure safety systems are maintained or improved while adhering to Kerry policies and local

Qualifications

• Trade or degree qualified - Electrical with multi-skilled/cross-skilled capability to include mechanical.
• Strong diagnostic/troubleshooting experience in high-volume manufacturing or process environments.
• Experience reading and interpreting drawings.

Responsibilities

• Carry out maintenance on electro-mechanical plant and systems, ensuring safety and compliance.
• Update and utilise the CMMS (SAP PM or other) to log work and changes.
• Lead or support risk assessments and HACCP studies as required.
• Collaborate with suppliers/contractors on new equipment and installations.

Skills

Electrical & multi-skilled

Troubleshooting

Read electrical drawings

Maintenance planning

SCADA/PLC basics

Education

Electrical trade qualification

Tools

SAP PM

CMMS

Job description

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier, and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

Requisition ID 65535

Position Type FT Permanent

Workplace Arrangement

Our Safety Purpose

At Kerry, we work together in a caring culture where everybody goes home safely every day. We are committed to providing a safe working environment and ensuring that all safety protocols are strictly followed. Join us in creating a workplace where safety is everyone's responsibility.

About the role

We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Technician to join the team at our Hartlepool site. The focus of this role is maintaining the equipment and systems within the plant, performing emergency response support to operations for all equipment issues, minimising downtime and waste. You will also carry out planned maintenance tasks to prevent failures of equipment during operation and bring forward improved maintenance suggestions and/or improvement initiatives to increase reliability of equipment and where possible to increase availability, improve quality and/or efficiency while at all times ensuring safety systems are maintained or improved.

This is a dayshift 8 hour shift role.

Key responsibilities

• Ensuring all works undertaken during maintenance activities performed do not breach the appropriate health and safety standards and where necessary will assist others and/or report safety breeches.
• Responsible for ensuring an up-to-date knowledge of Kerry policies, regional, national and local legislative requirements necessary in performing the tasks associated with the role of maintenance engineer.
• Participating in process and equipment risk assessments and HACCP studies as necessaryLead or assist in the troubleshooting, repairs and maintenance of electro-mechanical food manufacturing equipment or processes containing pneumatic, hydraulic, instrumentation, PLC and/or SCADA systems.
• Lead or assist in the troubleshooting, repairs and maintenance of facilities plant and services, including but not limited to compressed air, refrigeration and steam.
• Being observant & work off your own initiative when a fault is detected & to take decisive action to effect immediate repair or seek further assistance or support.
• Providing recommendations for improvement to the maintenance plans and/or equipment to eliminate downtime and waste, improving overall plant efficiency.
• Work with equipment suppliers or contractors on new equipment and installations and modifications as requested.
• Update the maintenance management system (SAP PM or other), record all works performed, stores transactions made and all changes/modifications made to equipment/systems.
• Carry out the work schedule issued each week, completing the work as prioritised to confirmation within the CMMS system.
• Where necessary support the planner/scheduler in specifying job plans for efficient execution.
• Maintain and report updates and changes to process control and /or documentation including drawings, programs, I/O lists, and databases. All changes to be logs such changes in the CMMS.
• Participate in process and equipment risk assessments when requested to optimise engineering design, hygienic design, personnel safety, environmental and quality compliance.

Qualifications and skills

• Trade or degree qualified - Electrical with Multi-skilled/cross-skilled capability to include mechanical.Strong diagnostic/trouble-shooting experience gained in a high volume manufacturing or process environment.
• Strong knowledge & experience of manufacturing electro/mechanical automated equipment & processes including pneumatic, hydraulic and instrumentation-controlled systems.
• Demonstrate capability on trouble shooting electrical & instrumentation systems safely.
• Planned maintenance knowledge & understanding.
• LV systems, direct Drives, inverter drives, soft starts, instrumentation, PLC/automated systems mechanical & fluid drive processes and systems and lubrication systems.
• Experience in reading & interpreting drawings.
• Excellent organisation skills.

What we offer

• 25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays)
• Matched pension scheme
• Access to our employee development platform and Udemy learning resources
• Benefits platform offering discounts and cashback at major retailers
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment with opportunities for career growth