Engineering Technician Opportunities Dunman

at  Dale Farm

Dale Farm is a leading dairy company supplying a wide range of branded consumer products and food ingredients into the UK, Irish and international markets.
We are currently recruiting for a number of Shift Engineering Technicians at our major cheese, whey and powder processing plant at Dunmanbridge near Cookstown.

• Provide engineering support / repair (breakdown, PM, improvement) to on site manufacturing equipment, primarily on a 3 on, 3 off 12 hour day shift pattern.
• Provide sickness and holiday cover to support wider engineering team.
• Carry out CMMS scheduled PPM tasks to help minimalize equipment failure rates.
• Help to optimise the performance of all machinery, plant, buildings and services to minimise machine down time and optimise OEE.
• Work alongside production colleagues to optimise process set up and control system configurations to achieve maximum yield and process control performance.
• Develop and work on effective preventative maintenance, fault diagnosis and repairs, responding timely and proactively to plant and equipment faults.
• Through structured continuous improvement devise initiatives to increase efficiencies and reduce costs and implement engineering projects as appropriate
• Support the installation and commissioning of new plant and equipment.
• Adhere to the company’s health, safety, environmental and personal standards policies.
• Ensure accurate and full record keeping of all work is carried out.
• Care for tools and equipment provided, ensuring that on completion of a task that equipment and/or work area is left in a clean and safe condition.
• Work as part of an inter-dependent team with flexibility to take on all other reasonable tasks