338 Mechanical Shift Technician

Anderson McQue; Dublin; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Anderson McQue is hiring a Mechanical Shift Technician for a permanent, on-site role in Clondalkin, Dublin. The position focuses on predictive maintenance, CMMS (Pemac), and reliability work across fuel oil, industrial gas systems, turbines, boilers and pumps.

The role involves coordinating day-to-day shift activities, leading maintenance planning, and supporting site engineers during outages, with a strong emphasis on safety and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Analytical mindset and problem-solving abilities required.
• Experience with Six Sigma/lean principles preferred.
• Craft qualification in a mechanical discipline is essential.
• Experience in energy conversion and distribution is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day work with shift technicians, especially morning shift changeover.
• Be the point of contact for service providers.
• Troubleshoot and perform root-cause analysis on plant faults.
• Maintain compliance by recording deviations and investigating issues.
• Carry out planned, predictive and corrective maintenance and ensure PMs are completed on time.
• Develop PMs, job plans and SOPs for plant equipment.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Six sigma/lean

Mechanical discipline

Energy conversion and distribution

Education

Craft qualification in mechanical discipline

Tools

Pemac CMMS

Job description

Contract Duration/Type: Permanent Location: Clondalkin, Dublin Hours: Shift role: 4 blocks of 4 x 12.25h day shifts with 4 rest days in between each block, followed by 4 Blocks of 4 x 12.25h night shifts with 4 rest days in between each lock & Repeat

Overview of the role: The Mechanical Shift Technician will train on all processes and techniques across predictive maintenance, CMMS (Pemac), reliability techniques on fuel oil, industrial gas distribution, turbines, boilers, compressors, diesel generator, pumps. The shift mechanical technician may also be required to support the site in emergency situations outside of normal working hours.

Duties

• Coordinate the day-to-day work with shift technicians on-site particularly morning shift changeover.
• Be the point of contact for service providers.
• Trouble-shooting and high-level investigation of utility plant equipment faults and failures – root cause analysis.
• Compliance/quality engineering – recording and investigation of deviations on utility plant and equipment.
• Carry out planned preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance as required.
• Ensure PMs are completed on time.
• Good knowledge and understanding of CMMS systems.
• Develop PMs and job plans as well as SOPs for plant equipment.
• Liaising with site planner re stores to identify spare part requirements.
• Review maintenance programme periodically to ensure optimal uptime levels are achieved.
• Support and comply with all safety procedures.
• Experience with fuel oil storage and distribution systems, industrial gas installations and distribution. gas and steam turbines, diesel generators, boilers.
• Be able to take a leadership role in decision-making as regards to plant operation and equipment suitability for operation.
• Have sufficient knowledge of the plant to allow decision making in terms of taking plant offline, communicating with relevant people on site and be capable of identifying the action required to get plant back online or introduce back-up and standby systems.
• Understand the actions to be taken in the event of a serious service outage.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to the team in developing their capability to resolve complex plant deviations and failures.
• Support the Site engineer & HV Engineer in carrying out root cause analysis on plant failures to determine the sequence of events, the underlying root cause and assist in developing proposals to remediate the fault.
• Provide support to capital improvement projects on utility systems and be involved in the commissioning and hand over from projects to operations.
• Assist the Site Engineer & HV Engineer in planning and executing complex utility service isolations for maintenance, projects and client works.
• Identify, develop and, if approved, implement continuous improvement measures to improve the efficiency of plant and working practices.
• Seek to continuously improve knowledge and understanding of complex mechanical systems.

Skills required

• Analytical mindset
• Experience with six sigma/lean preferred
• Previous experience required, craft qualified in a mechanical discipline
• Past working experience ideally gained in energy conversion and distribution