Maintenance Technician

Company: Saint Gobain Exterior Solution
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Location: Larne
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About Saint-Gobain External Solutions

Saint-Gobain External Solutions is part of the global Saint-Gobain Group, a world leader in light and sustainable construction. With a strong heritage of innovation and more than 350 years of expertise, we design and deliver high-performance external building solutions that improve energy efficiency, durability, and comfort.

Our portfolio includes industry-leading brands and systems that support modern construction, infrastructure, and renovation projects worldwide. We are driven by a clear purpose: to make the world a better homecombining technical excellence with a commitment to sustainability and responsible growth.

At Saint-Gobain External Solutions, we bring together expertise, innovation, and collaboration to shape the future of building exteriors.

Job Title

Maintenance Technician

Job Purpose

Maintenance Technician

Key Responsibilities

  • Take responsibility for health, safety, and well-being to deliver a safety-first culture
  • Bring a root cause-based mindset and culture to deliver high quality solutions
  • Undertake repairs, servicing, and maintenance of a wide range of production plant and machinery to the highest standard with work requests and pre-determine specifications
  • Design, promote and carry out preventative maintenance
  • Fault finding, testing and the removal or adjustment of existing fittings, fixtures, and parts
  • Assist the Maintenance Engineer to ensure that adequate stock levels are maintained for all spare part lists and ensure that all necessary records are completed accurately.
  • Adhere to existing working practices, methods, procedures, undertake relevant training and development activities and to respond positively to new and alternative systems.
  • Maintain collaborative working practices, building strong relationships with all internal stakeholders. Work closely with Production to prioritise daily workload and plant maintenance
  • Manage breakdowns with urgency to minimise downtime, working outside of core hours, unprompted with the wider team where valuable to do so
  • Own a high-quality preventative maintenance schedule to reduce downtime, and achieve optimal levels of capacity and efficiency
  • Have the ability and confidence to make pragmatic decisions using knowledge, experience and judgement
  • Demonstrate resilience and ambition to build and drive long term engineering excellence
  • Act as an ambassador for our company values and adhere to all company policies and procedures

Qualifications

  • A 3rd level qualification in Engineering or similar
  • HND/HNC in Mechanical Engineering, and/or time served Mechanical background

Skills & Experience

  • A minimum of 3 years experience gained in a manufacturing environment, or similar role
  • Experience working with servicing, repairs and maintenance of plant machinery
  • Knowledge of current H&S legislation
  • Root cause analysis & fault-finding experience on automated machinery & electrical systems
  • Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, electrical drawings, catalogues, reports, and manuals
  • Experience with 3 phase motors, electrical conveyors, belts, palletisers.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent attention to detail, organisational, planning and prioritising ability
  • Evidence of delivering and maintaining a continuous improvement culture
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders
  • Ability to mobilise urgency and determination
  • Strong influencing skills with ability to influence upwards, downwards and laterally
  • Computer literate with Microsoft Office suit

Requirements

  • Able to work flexible hours as required
  • Able to work an on-call rota
  • Able to work away from home if required
  • Possess a full current driving licence

Skills:Electrical Mechanical Manufacturing team player

Benefits:Performance Bonus Group Life Assurance pension

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Posted: June 19th, 2026