Senior Maintenance Technician

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Why Dawn Farms?

We can offer an excellent opportunity to be part of a world-class team, equipping our teams with the knowledge and the necessary skills to achieve their full potential. Innovation is a key ingredient of our success in protecting our market position and keeping our competitive edge. To be truly innovative, we invest in recruiting and developing a highly skilled, ambitious and talented team.

Job Purpose

Dawn Farms is currently seeking for a Senior Maintenance Technician to join our MaintenanceDepartment to be based in our facilties in Naas, Co. Kildare. The Senior Maintenance Technician tis an advanced technician with subject matter expertise on asset management and maintenance procedures. Their role is to support the maintenance technicians and apprentices in maintaining equipment uptime.

The role of Senior Maintenance Technician is to support the Maintenance Manager/Supervisors and Maintenance Team in the following areas:

• Respond to breakdowns and provide support to technicians where necessary.
• Assist Supervisors, Managers in monitoring machine reliability.
• Identify & execute machine / line improvement projects.
• Liaise with production on line improvement projects.
• Assist with commissioning of new machinery.
• Assist with training of technicians & operators.
• Assist with evaluation of existing PM’s & modify where necessary.
• On call support & attend site if necessary.
• Flexibility to support holiday & sickness cover for other shifts.
• Play a key role in planning & executing machine & fabric repairs in advance of visits & audits.
• Participate and input into PM programmes and spare parts projects.
• H&S Compliance programme.

Positions: Full-Time, Permenant

Location: Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Working Hours: Shift structure of Days & Nights (shift premiums apply)

Role Responsibilities & Duties

• Production support on shift as required. Fully support the team leaders / line support i.e. on shift cover, with phone support & on callouts
• Support the maintenance leaders with regards to projects, improvement plans, audit preparation, and the maintenance works plans.
• Provide support and assist in evaluating existing PMs and setting up new PMs. Supporting PM frequencies or advising of required changes to best add value to the lines and maintenance time.
• Work with the maintenance team in the planning of shutdown works & machine overhauls.
• Train and support technicians & operators on existing & new machines
• Coordinate with engineering stores ensuring the stocking of machine spare parts
• Assist engineering stores in the evaluation of existing spare parts stocks and play an active part in reducing redundant stock.
• Assist the health & safety team in carrying out risk assessments of new & existing machines and ensuring training is rolled out to the Maintenance Team regarding same.
• Assist /coordinate the execution of health and safety machine / line upgrades and machine compliance in line with guarding and safety regulations.
• Involvement in lean projects and process improvements.
• Create/update best practice methods for specific task on equipment in the plant, document and train same.
• Planned preventative maintenance and breakdown support is part of this role transferring skills to other team members.
• Record daily tasks on CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System).
• General ad hoc duties as required in role.

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum two years’ experience as a maintenance technician.
• Demonstrated ability in fault finding and downtime issue resolution.
• Machine knowledge in core processing equipment – thermoformers, bagging machines, multiheaded weighers, and cooking & freezing assets.
• Experience in mentoring junior staff and having the ability to transfer technical knowledge.
• Experience in managing contractor staff.

Key Competencies

• KPIs will be set to measure achievements, progress and work performance.
• Be a leader and ambassador of H&S best practice, guidelines and improvements.
• Provide leadership on best practice and improvement controls within the maintenance team.
• Ability to manage time effectively and meet deadlines.
• Application of knowledge of GMP regulations, EHS regulations and lean principles.
• Application of knowledge of reliability process experience.
• Good team worker and collaborator.

What we can offer you?

• Annual leave 171.60 hours.
• Pension plan.
• Health insurance scheme.
• Subsidised canteen.
• Employee assistance programme - this programme offers expert wellbeing support 24 hours a day 365 days a year access to counselling, financial information, consumer information, life coaching, health information, autism support, parent coaching, International employee support, all free for you and your family.
• Wellness programme.
• Maternity/Paternity leave benefits.
• Training & Development, Career progression.
• Christmas Savings Scheme.
• Bike to work scheme.