Maintenance Engineer
We are seeking an experienced Maintenance Engineer to join a busy manufacturing and production environment in Cork. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with a strong background in manufacturing maintenance, ideally gained within a food processing, FMCG, cold\-chain or refrigeration environment.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, safety and efficiency of production equipment, while supporting preventative maintenance and continuous improvement initiatives.
Own Car \& Driving Licence essential to go between sites.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist with the development and implementation of preventative maintenance programmes across the production facility.
- Carry out planned and reactive maintenance on manufacturing and processing equipment.
- Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical and automation\-related faults to minimise production downtime.
- Maintain and troubleshoot controls, sensors, pneumatics, electrical systems and automated equipment.
- Support the safe and efficient operation of all maintenance systems and production machinery.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, equipment reliability and process optimisation.
- Work closely with the maintenance and production teams to identify and resolve recurring equipment and process issues.
- Support the implementation of improvements and repairs across the manufacturing facility.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records and contribute to downtime tracking, failure analysis and MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) reporting.
- Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out in line with GMP, health \& safety and company procedures.
- Take a proactive approach to identifying potential equipment failures and addressing issues before they impact production.
- Previous experience as a Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Technician or similar engineering role within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong experience maintaining production and processing machinery.
- Experience within a food processing, FMCG, cold\-chain, refrigeration or similar high\-volume production environment would be highly advantageous.
- Good understanding of electrical and mechanical engineering, automation and industrial control systems.
- Experience with sensors, pneumatics, controls and electrical systems.
- Strong fault\-finding and problem\-solving ability, with the confidence to diagnose and resolve issues on production equipment.
- Experience working within a fast\-paced production environment, where minimising downtime is a key priority.
- Understanding of preventative and planned maintenance principles.
- Good computer skills with the ability to complete maintenance records and reports.
- Strong organisational and time\-management skills.
- A proactive approach to maintenance, reliability and continuous improvement.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a maintenance/production team.
Candidates with experience in the following environments are particularly encouraged to apply:
- Food manufacturing / food processing
- FMCG manufacturing
- Meat, seafood or dairy processing
- Refrigeration / cold\-chain environments
- High\-volume manufacturing
- Automated production facilities
- Packaging and processing plants
- Other technically complex manufacturing environments
This is a hands\-on engineering role within a busy production facility, offering the opportunity to contribute directly to equipment reliability, preventative maintenance, continuous improvement and production performance. If you have a strong manufacturing maintenance background and are looking for your next opportunity within a progressive production environment, we would be interested in hearing from you.
Pay: €60,000\.00\-€70,000\.00 per year
Work Location: In person
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