Protea Recruitment is working with an established food manufacturing business in County Down to recruit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast-paced manufacturing environment, supporting the reliability, efficiency and continuous improvement of production equipment.
The successful candidate will be responsible for both planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdown support, working closely with production teams to minimise downtime and ensure machinery operates safely and efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out reactive maintenance and fault-finding across production and packaging equipment.
- Complete planned preventative maintenance (PPM) activities to improve equipment reliability.
- Diagnose and resolve electrical and mechanical faults, minimising production disruption.
- Maintain accurate engineering records and update maintenance management systems.
- Identify opportunities to improve machinery performance, reliability and efficiency.
- Support continuous improvement, automation and engineering improvement projects.
- Ensure engineering activities comply with Health & Safety and food safety standards.
- Liaise with external contractors and equipment suppliers when required.
- Monitor engineering spares and ensure critical components are available.
- Work closely with production teams to support operational targets and minimise downtime.
Skills & Experience
- Minimum 3 years' maintenance engineering experience within FMCG, food manufacturing or a similar fast-paced production environment.
- Completed engineering apprenticeship and relevant engineering qualification, ideally HNC level or above.
- Strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding experience.
- Experience maintaining automated production and packaging machinery.
- Good understanding of planned preventative maintenance systems.
- Knowledge of Health & Safety requirements within a manufacturing environment.
- Ability to work independently and respond effectively to production breakdowns.
- Experience with PLC fault-finding, continuous improvement or CMMS would be advantageous.
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