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Job description

Our client, Kilwaughter, a privately-owned business with a rich heritage, created around the quarry in Northern Ireland are seeking an Electrical Maintenance Technician to join their team. As an Electrical Maintenance Technician, you will 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 along with the below job duties and responsibilities.

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.
• 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 resiliency 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.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• A 3rd level qualification in Engineering or similar.
• HND/HNC in Mechanical Engineering and/or time served Mechanical background.
• A minimum of 3 years' experience gained in a manufacturing environment or a similar role.
• Experience working with servicing repairs and maintenance of plant machinery.
• Root cause analysis & fault-finding experience on automated machinery and electrical systems.
• Ability to read, interpret and apply information from files, electrical drawings, catalogues, reports and manuals.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, organisational, planning and prioritising ability.
• Evidence of delivering and maintaining a continuous improvement culture.
• Ability to mobilise urgency and determination.
• Strong influencing skills with ability to influence upward, downwards and laterally.
• Computer literate with Microsoft office suite.
• Able to work flexible hours when required.
• Able to work on-call rota.
• Able to work away from home if required.
• Possess a full current driving licence.
• Control & Automaton systems experience.
• Inverter drives, HMIs and PLCs (preferably Siemens).
• Mechanical drive system.
• Pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
• LEAN methodologies experience.

Further Information

If you are interested in this role, please forward your CV through to Danielle.Mcfall@industrialtemps.com or call our Ballymena office on 02825420140 ask for Danielle. INDUSTRIAL TEMPS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER