Engineering Opportunities

Engineering opportunities

Location: Craigavon

Hours: see additional information

Salary: Competitive

Business Unit: sciences

Open To: Internal and External Applicants

Ref No.: HRJOB11408

The Role

Due to expansion, we are currently recruiting Plant engineers and Maintenance Engineers.

**CVs will be assessed on an ongoing basis and a merit list will be compiled for current and future vacancies. Please ensure that your CV fully reflects the criteria required for the role or you may not be shortlisted**

Plant Engineer

The Maintenance engineer (plant) is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation and reliability of all plant equipment through preventative and reactive maintenance, technical inspections, and high‑quality repairs. They will act as a subject matter expert across a wide range of plant systems, manage spare parts, and provide insight on asset health. The role involves supporting installation and commissioning activities, coordinating and overseeing third‑party maintenance providers, managing permits to work, and ensuring all contractor activity complies with procedures and health and safety standards. Additional duties include handling plant alarms, completing accurate maintenance documentation, coordinating insurance inspections, liaising with vendors, and providing out‑of‑hours engineering support when required.

Maintenance Engineer

In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting electrical systems, supporting process improvements and contributing to engineering and site projects to ensure safe and reliable operations.

Please see attached job descriptions for further details for each role

Key Requirements

Applicants must have eligibility to work in the UK OR possess a valid work permit that will allow you to take up full time, permanent employment in the UK.

Plant Engineer

To be successful in this role you will need NVQ level 3 or City & Guilds Level 3 in Mechanical engineering, or plumbing, heating and ventilation (or equivalent) along with post apprenticeship experience in industrial maintenance to include installation of equipment, planned and unplanned maintenance of plant and equipment, including, for example, Air Handling Units (AHU), Boilers, Chillers, Pumps, Heating Systems, etc.

Maintenance Engineer

We are looking for someone with City & Guilds Level 3 in an Electrical related discipline (or equivalent) combined with post apprenticeship experience in a maintenance environment.

Whilst not essential, it would be desirable for candidates to have

· HND/HNC (or equivalent) in an electrical related discipline,

· Previous maintenance experience within the food, chemical or pharmaceutical industry.

· Experience of electronic preventative maintenance scheduling tools

· Experience of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA)

· Experience of calibration completion

Please see attached job descriptions for further details for each role

Additional Information

Maintenance engineer

40 hours per week which would be an 8 hour shift pattern Sunday PM to Friday PM.

Days, Evenings, Nights rotated weekly.

week 1 is 06:00 to 14:30, week 2 is 14:00 to 22:30 and 3rd week is 2200 to 06:30.

For training purposes you would start on day shift 08:00-16:30.

Plant Engineer

40 hours per week Monday-Friday 08:00-16:30

Apply Now

Apply online and tailor your CV to outline how you meet the role criteria. Please upload your CV in PDF format where possible.

Closing Date

We will no longer be accepting applications after 5pm on Monday 27th April 2026

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE NOTE: Almac will only accept applications from agencies/business partners that have been invited to work on this role by our Talent Acquisition team. Speculative candidate CV’s received or submitted directly to Hiring Managers will be considered unsolicited and no fee will be payable. Thank you for your cooperation.