Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Newtownards

Day shift

£38k - £40k

Vickerstock are currently working with a leading FMCG Company based in Newtownards.

Our client is a leading provider within the food sector providing some of the biggest and best household brands across Northern Ireland.

This is a full-time permanent role within their Maintenance department. Your primary focus will be to ensure the maximum uptime of machinery across the weekday shift pattern.

• Work continuously to ensure that all scheduled engineering maintenance works including diagnostic fault analysis are actioned.
• In conjunction with the Engineering Management and Production Manager, maximise the utilisation of the site's assets while taking all opportunities to minimise costs.
• Help drive the site's Net Zero Energy efforts by exploring and taking all available opportunities to reduce energy usage.
• Ensure the upkeep of the assets and fabric of the site.
• Carry out schedule-based maintenance work on equipment, buildings and services and repairs, overhauls and installations as appropriate. General maintenance and breakdown activities, resolving causes of defects for allocated cell/area.
• Fault find mechanical and/or electrical faults and repair equipment in a breakdown situation. Deliver sufficient callout support and handovers to ensure reliability and performance of the plant's machinery in line with agreed service levels.
• Proactively identify and deal with rectifying potential equipment/services issues.
• Work with other functions as part of the manufacturing team to ensure efficient running of the equipment and prioritise work as agreed.

• Proven successful experience in a similar role.
• Experience servicing and repair of electrical, electronic, mechanical, electro mechanical and pneumatic systems.
• Experience in working in a high volume production environment with automated machinery.
• IEEE or equivalent qualification.
• Mechanical fault finding, maintenance and installation.
• Experience in carrying out preventive Maintenance on motors, gearboxes, conveyor systems, rollers and pneumatic/hydraulic systems.
• Adjust and calibrate equipment and machinery to optimal specifications.

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