Maintenance Technician Navan

Cpl; Meath Hill; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Cpl are supporting a heritage brand in insulation products, seeking an Electrical or Mechanical Maintenance Technician for their Navan site. The role involves maintaining high-speed manufacturing lines, performing repairs, and ensuring equipment uptime in a busy production environment.

The successful candidate will have at least 3 years’ trade experience and an electrical or mechanical NFQ Level 6 qualification.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years’ trade experience in electrical or mechanical maintenance.
• Experience in manufacturing environments is preferred across industries such as FMCG, bottling, or medical devices.
• Lean Six Sigma exposure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day engineering services in a busy high-speed manufacturing setting.
• Maintain and repair equipment to ensure high line performance and uptime.
• Plan and execute maintenance work with accurate documentation and safety in mind.
• Support production with preventative and reactive maintenance as required.
• Strive for >95% tool uptime and continuous improvement on line performance.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Mechanical maintenance

PLC fault finding

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Electrical trade cert / NFQ Level 6

Job description

JN -102026-558887

Electrical or Mechanical Maintenance Technician Navan

Cpl are supporting our client partner who a heritage brand in the supply of Insulation Products to the Irish and International construction industries.

As a result of a recent internal promotion, they are now looking to recruit an Electrical or Mechanical Technician into their Maintenance Team.

This is a full-time employment contract working on a rotating shift pattern –

• Week A – Thursday, Friday, Saturday - 6am to 6.30pm
• Week B – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - 6am to 6.30pm
• Week C – Off for 7 days

Please note that to be considered, you must have a valid electrical trade certification or other NFQ Level 6 or equivalent Electrical or Mechanical qualification.

The Maintenance Technician is part of a team of high performing craft and maintenance professionals.

Overtime will be required from time to time to assist with production or preventative / reactive maintenance.

This role is live, has full budget approval and ideally, they’d like to have their new technician hired and offer confirmed and accepted by the end of September 2025.

The job requires the Maintenance Technician to set-up, install and maintain and support Insulation production, packaging, and manufacturing equipment to ensure optimum performance and support the achievement of operation goals.

Maintenance Technician Job Description:

• The job requires the Maintenance Electrician to provide day to day engineering services in a busy high-speed manufacturing environment.
• You will be responsible for the Zone / Line performance and overall maintenance and repair of the equipment and machinery.
• The Maintenance Technician should be able to multitask and solve problems that arise on site. The job requires these problems to be resolved quickly and efficient.
• Cost effective design solutions should be provided on a weekly basis for the plant and equipment requirements.
• Always be maintaining accurate and up to date maintenance documentation.
• Delivering a high-quality maintenance service to support production.
• Ensure that maintenance works efficiently, effectively, safely, in line with the maintenance strategy and responsible for carrying out planned work
• Maintenance Technician must be able to ensure tool uptime is above 95%.
• Plan work activities to improve Line Zone performance in conjunction with the Supervisor/ Lead technician.
• Ideally will be highly competent at using PLC for fault finding.

The successful Maintenance Technician will possess:

• At least 3 years’ trade experience as an Electrical or Mechanical Maintenance professional.
• The ideal candidate would be coming from a manufacturing environment, and these can be across multiple industries
• Food and or Beverage processing background or alternatively from FMCG, Bottling, Medical Devices, Pharmaceutical or related high-volume industries and ideally within a Lean Six Sigma environment.
• You will provide key engineering support to a busy production department that includes multiple high-speed, production and packaging lines.
• You will be required to trouble shoot and repair damaged or poor performing equipment
• Assist in the compilation and presenting of technical feedback on engineering performance relating to yield output, downtime and where necessary, you and the other technicians will make engineering improvements and enhancements to increase productivity and efficiency.
• Excellent communication and Interpersonal skills are essential for this job.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Maintenance Technician must be able to multitask and have a proven track record.
• Team player and a good problem solver.
• National Craft Senior Trades Electrical or another NFQ Mechanical recognised electrical Qualification is essential to be considered for this job.
• You must be flexible in this position and be prepared to undertake other work that may be assigned to you from time to time, which may be outside the area of your normal duties.