Maintenance Engineer - Days, £45k

Maintenance Engineer
Day shift
Newry
£45k

Vickerstock are working in partnership with a leading manufacturing firm in Newry to assist them with the recruitment of a Maintenance Engineer.
Since their inception, they have gone from a small local manufacturer to a household name within the FMCG sector.

Your Responsibilities as a Maintenance Engineer:

• Uphold exemplary Health & Safety, quality and housekeeping standards, and report any shortfalls immediately.
• Perform fault diagnosis to PLC level (Allen-Bradley & Siemens).
• Execute preventative maintenance according to schedule, logging both planned tasks and breakdown interventions; develop comprehensive PM instructions and maintain critical spares lists.
• Troubleshoot and rectify electrical and mechanical failures on plant machinery, analysing all potential root causes, evaluating options, and implementing effective solutions.
• Conduct root-cause analyses and apply learnings to drive ongoing improvements.
• Keep electrical schematics and technical documentation fully current.
• Manage the procurement, installation and commissioning of new plant and equipment in coordination with the Projects Department.
• Liaise with production and maintenance teams to resolve breakdowns, determine priority actions and ensure prompt, efficient repair.
• Utilise systems and data interrogation tools to spot trends and identify opportunities for continuous enhancement.

As a Maintenance Engineer, ideally you will have:

• A trade qualification in Mechanical or Electrical
• At least five years' experience in an electrical role within a comparable manufacturing setting.
• Proven ability to fault-find back to PLCs and, preferably, experience in modifying inputs, outputs and parameter settings.

What we hope you will do next;

Contact Warren Watson to discuss this in absolute confidence or send an updated CV via the link on the page or contact me on

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As an experienced specialist senior engineering and manufacturing recruitment professional with 7 years' experience; I personally specialise within the recruitment of Maintenance Engineers at all levels across Ireland.

If you are interested in this vacancy, or work within Engineering / Manufacturing in Ireland, then please apply with your CV to me for consideration - (You can also find and connect with me on LinkedIn)

Skills:
Maintenance Engineer Maintenance Technician Mechatronic Engineer Shift Engineer

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