Mechanical Fitter – United feeds Dungannon

Dale Farm Group; Dungannon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Mechanical Fitter in Dungannon, where you will play a crucial role in optimizing a highly automated production facility. This position offers the chance to work closely with production teams, ensuring equipment is maintained and performing at its best. With a strong focus on health and safety, you'll be responsible for routine maintenance, fault diagnosis, and supporting continuous improvement efforts. Enjoy a competitive salary, excellent career development opportunities, and a supportive work environment. If you're driven, motivated, and ready for a challenge, this could be the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Pension

Life Assurance

Career Development Opportunities

Flexible Overtime

Qualifications

• Significant experience in mechanical maintenance and fault diagnosis.
• Ability to work independently and manage maintenance activities.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine preventative maintenance and overhaul machinery.
• Support production by ensuring equipment is properly maintained.

Skills

Mechanical Maintenance

Fault Diagnosis

Preventative Maintenance

Process Improvement

Health and Safety Compliance

Job description

Mechanical Fitter – United Feeds Dungannon

Dale Farm Cooperative is a UK dairy farmer co-operative owned by over 1200 dairy farmers who supply us with fresh milk. Dale Farm has operations throughout the UK and Ireland producing and distributing a wide range of dairy products which it sells across the UK and Ireland as well as exporting to over 45 countries worldwide.

At Dale Farm, virtually every career discipline is represented in our workforce, from production, engineering and distribution, to sales & marketing and food technology/quality assurance, to finance, HR and IT through to general management. Our standards are high, and when we recruit, we are looking for those with energy and drive, who are keen for responsibility and motivated to succeed with a record of achievement and with the potential to develop as the company grows.

Culture

Our culture is based on setting best in class standards, working towards and delivering on committed objectives, striving for constant improvement and involving everyone in the company. We strive to develop our people and harness everyone's contribution to deliver a winning team.

The company is an Equal Opportunities employer and is committed to a safe, inclusive, and relationship-based workspace.

In return, we offer a high degree of responsibility, plenty of challenge, good opportunities for learning and personal development, and rewarding benefit packages, all within a fast-moving and results-oriented environment.

Mechanical Fitter - United Feeds Dungannon

As part of a small engineering team, your responsibility will be to optimise the performance of our highly automated production facility.

Working closely with production colleagues, you will ensure that equipment is properly set and maintained, monitoring performance, carrying out fault diagnosis and running adjustments/repairs as necessary in a fast-paced animal feed production environment.

Your job will include:

• Routine preventative maintenance
• Overhauling mechanical plant and machinery
• General building fabric repairs
• Maintaining and monitoring consumption of M&E utilities
• Providing support for the installation and commissioning of new plant and equipment
• Assisting with continuous process improvement projects
• Supporting and assisting production when necessary to ensure the continuation of the production process
• Adhering to all site H&S rules and encouraging others to do the same

Criteria:

Candidates should have significant, recent and relevant experience in the role. This role will suit candidates from a wide range of backgrounds and experience.

Candidates must have the ability and confidence to work on their own initiative and as the single point of contact for maintenance activities in the absence of management.

This role operates a 40-hour week comprising of 5x8-hour shifts. Shifts start on Sunday night at 10pm and finish on Friday night at 10pm. Shifts run 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm & 10pm-6am rotating weekly.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate flexibility at times around rotas and participate in a reasonable amount of overtime. All overtime is paid at a premium rate.

The Package

This is an excellent career opportunity to join a secure and progressive company with plenty of scope for career development. The post comes with a very competitive salary package, pension and life assurance, as well as a good working environment.