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Purpose :
The purpose of this role is to provide a Manufacturing Engineering service to the plant, in order to maximise the availability of our Manufacturing Equipment. You will also ensure the performance of day to day preventative, predictive and demand maintenance activity to maintain manufacturing and utilities equipment. This role is based on our Ballytivnan site.
Flexibility to work shifts that include Days & Evenings is essential for this role.
Responsibilities :
- To liaise with Production to ensure equipment performance is maximized.
- Establish with the engineering team leader the department goals, schedules and timetables for activities.
- To maintain records and documentation on relevant Engineering Procedures and preventative & demand maintenance.
- To liaise with Internal/External Engineering personnel and contract maintenance providers in maintaining, troubleshooting and installing/commissioning equipment.
- To facilitate the implementation of equipment projects/ process improvements.
- Establish with the engineering team leader the department goals, schedules and timetables for activities.
- Contribute to successful external, Division and Corporate audits.
- Identification and implementation of manufacturing equipment related cost improvement plans and continuous improvement plans.
- Cross train within manufacturing engineering.
- Ensure safety standards are met and safe working practices adhered to.
- Support the Production Team in ensuring that manufacturing equipment is maintained to meet the output and yield requirements.
- Adhering to all relevant policies relating to Quality and regulatory
- Supervision of external contractors carrying out work onsite
- Required to undertake specific investigations, and equipment monitoring, with the view to improve manufacturing performance e.g. reducing plant, maximizing output and yield.
- Optimisation of elements of manufacturing machinery to adapt to process conditions in order to improve efficiency.
- Considerable and continual care and attention needed to avoid substantial damage to equipment
- Adherence to the MEP (Maintenance Excellence Programme) is required to ensure increased reliability and decreased downtime for the plant.
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