Mechanical Day Technician

Veolia | Ireland; Clondalkin; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Veolia in Clondalkin, Dublin, is seeking a Mechanical Day Technician to train across Predictive Maintenance, CMMS (PEMAC), and reliability practices on Fuel Oil, industrial gas distribution, turbines, boilers, and high‑pressure steam systems.

You will coordinate day-to-day work with shift technicians, act as a liaison for service providers, and perform preventive and corrective maintenance while developing PMs, SOPs, and improving plant uptime.

Qualifications

• Must have analytical mindset and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with six sigma/lean preferred.
• Craft qualified in a mechanical discipline with related experience.
• Past working experience ideally gained in energy conversion and distribution.
• Technical writing skills including documentation in Word/Excel/PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the day-to-day work with shift technicians on-site, especially morning changeover.
• Be the point of contact for service providers.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of plant equipment faults.
• Carry out planned preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance.
• Ensure PMs are completed on time and document deviations.
• Develop PMs and Job Plans as well as SOPs for plant equipment.

Skills

Analytical

Six Sigma

Mechanical

Energy distribution

Technical writing

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Education

Mechanical discipline qualification

Tools

PEMAC CMMS

Job description

Mechanical Day Technician

Contract Duration/Type: Permanent

Location: Clondalkin, Dublin

Hours: Monday-Thursday 07:30 to 16:00 Friday 07:30 to 15:30

Overview of the role:

The Day Mechanical 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 Generators Pumps. High Pressure Steam systems (35Bar and above).

The working hours are Monday-Thursday 07:30 to 16:00 Friday 07:30 to 15:30

The day technician may be required from time to time to back fill on shift and may also be required to support the site in emergency situations outside of normal working hours.

Duties of the Role include:

• 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.
• Experience on High pressure System (35 Bar and above)
• Have sufficient knowledge of the plant to allow decision making in terms of taking plant off line, 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;
• 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 them in developing proposals to remedy the fault;
• 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;

Required skills for this role:

• 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
• Technical writing skills
• Microsoft word, excel, powerpoint skills.

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