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About The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Electrician to join our team in our Listowel manufacturing facility. You will be responsible for the repair and maintenance of the equipment used within our plant. You will use your craft qualification to effect this. You will contribute to increasing the reliability of process and utility equipment in support of manufacturing requirements for dependability, quality, safety and environmental.
As part of the Maintenance Team, you will work with colleagues from all levels of operations and quality to identify and prioritise equipment issues. An ability to work effectively within your team will also be very important to this role. The maintenance technician role will involve working on a shift rotation, with some shift overtime. This will start as a 9 month fixed term contract to in line with newly won business, however we anticipate this will become a permanent role.
The Listowel facility processes 500 million litres of milk annually. Listowel has a comprehensive product offering consisting of Dairy Proteins, Primary Dairy Ingredients, Dry Dairy Ingredients, Dairy Flavours, and Cheese Solutions products manufactured on-site.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide effective technical support to Production in all aspects of machine and equipment maintenance, installation and modification; perform detailed maintenance, calibrations, PMs and troubleshooting.
* Support maintenance planning and preventative maintenance through completion of planned and emergency work orders, calibrations, PMs etc. Document maintenance work, including upgrades, made to existing equipment, including preventative maintenance performed and parts used, to ensure appropriate documentation and records of repair history.
* Support continuous improvement by active participation in repairs, upgrades, preventative maintenance and system failure investigations and investigation reports, execution/development of change control, as appropriate.
* Adherence to Safety Health & Environmental policies and procedures and carry out all tasks in a safe and controlled manner.
* Pro-active team working with peers, production, quality and support groups to improve equipment reliability and performance.
* Respond to breakdowns, systematically fault find, and identify root cause and then implement solution to prevent recurrence
Qualifications And Skills
* Electrical Craft Qualification with multi-skilled plant maintenance experience within a manufacturing environment
* Ideally you'll have experience of working within the food industry.
* Working safely with relevant H&S qualifications e.g. IOSH, Confined Spaces etc
* Experience of fault-finding diagnostics and procedure
* Strong communication skills and ability to work as part of a team.
* Experience of using CMMS
About Kerry Dairy Ireland
Kerry Dairy Ireland is a vertically integrated farm-to-fork business with a very substantial consumer foods presence and a leading nutritional and dairy ingredients division, delivering high-quality dairy solutions with a focus on sustainability and innovation.
Why Apply?
As well as the opportunity for career development, you will also receive a competitive hourly rate, with enhanced overtime rates, a matched pension scheme to up to 10%, life Assurance and access to an employee assistance program and employee benefit platform.
Kerry is committed to and values Diversity and Inclusion in all recruitment processes and does not discriminate based on gender, race, class, economic status, ethnic background, sexual orientation, age, political beliefs, veteran status, marital status or any other protected characteristic.
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