Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer (Plant)

Location: Craigavon

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

Salary: Competitive

Business Unit: Sciences

Open To: Internal and External Applicants

Ref No.: HRJOB11285

The Role

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

What we are looking for

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.

It would be desirable for applicants to have a HND/HNC mechanical engineering or Plumbing, Heating and Ventilation (or equivalent) and previous maintenance experience within the food or pharmaceutical industry.

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

Please see attached job description for further details

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 8pm on Thursday 26 February 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.