Maintenance Technician | Sion Mills | Shift Rotation

P Mulrine & Sons Sales; Strabane; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Full time position

Friendly team

Job stability

Job summary

Mulrines is recruiting a Maintenance Technician to join the Maintenance Team at our Sion Mills site. The role supports the Production Department by maintaining all machinery and equipment, including pasteurisers, pumps, filling and packing machines, and conveyors.

You will troubleshoot downtime, perform preventative maintenance, handle changeovers, and ensure safety standards and SOPs are followed. Shift rotation (days, evenings, nights) with weekend work is required, and long-term employment is

Qualifications

• Formal qualifications from a mechanical discipline with some electrical training.
• Experience with automatic palletisers, conveyors, pallet wrappers and pasteurisers desirable.
• Willingness to work 2–3 shift rotation (days, evenings, nights) and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of lines and associated equipment to ensure optimum performance.
• Troubleshooting to minimize downtime and respond to issues.
• Fault finding on machinery (mechanical and/or electrical).
• Preventative servicing, maintenance and routine checks of all machinery and equipment.
• Communicating with colleagues to ensure issues are dealt with and shift handover is completed.
• Completing paperwork and documentation; assisting in machine changeovers.
• Adhering to Health & Safety standards and SOPs.
• Involvement in decommissioning or commissioning of machines and maintenance projects.
• Flexible across the production facility.

Skills

Mechanical qualification

Palletisers

Conveyors

Pasteurisers

Shift flexibility

Tools

Electrical training

Job description

Maintenance Technician | Sion Mills | Shift Rotation

About Mulrines:

Mulrines, established in 1919, is a producer of high-quality juice and beverage products for retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers across Ireland and the UK. With over a century of experience, Mulrines employs a highly motivated workforce of more than 220 people, operating across three sites, including our headquarters in Donegal, Sion Mills, and our orchards in Kildare.

We are now recruiting Maintenance Technician to join our Maintenance Team at our Sion Mills site.

About the role

The Role:

The Maintenance Team is responsible for providing an essential maintenance service to the Production Department. The team maintains all machinery and associated equipment, including pasteurisers, centrifugal pumps, positive displacement pumps, Elopak filling and packing machines, tray packers, shrink wrappers, Mariani palletisers, and conveyors.

Duties include:

• Maintenance of lines and associated equipment to ensure optimum performance

• Troubleshooting to ensure that downtime is kept to a minimum and that all issues are responded to accordingly

• Fault finding on machinery during breakdowns (mechanical and/or electrical)

• Preventative servicing, maintenance and routine checks of all machinery and associated equipment

• Communicating with colleagues to ensure issues are dealt with and shift handover is completed

• Completing all paperwork and documentation as required Assisting in machine changeovers

• Following and adhering to all Health & Safety standards and all SOP’s

• Getting involved in decommissioning or commissioning of machines / and Maintenance projects as required

• Flexible across the production facility

Qualifications and skill Requirements:

• Formal Qualifications from a Mechanical discipline with some Electrical training, coming from a Manufacturing background

• Experience with automatic palletisers, conveyors, pallet wrappers, pasteurisers would be desirable

• Flexibility to work on a 2 or 3 shift rotation (Days, Evenings, Nights) . A key element of this role is flexibility, Mulrines operates a 24-hour plant, therefore 3 shifts run throughout the day, you must be willing to work shifts and weekends.

What we offer:

• Competitive Salary depending on skills and experience.

• Full time position

• Friendly and supportive team environment.

• Long-term job stability with a respected local employer.

About the company

Mulrines is a fourth-generation, family-owned business with over 100 years of experience built on trust, quality, and people.