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Are you an experienced Electrical Engineer looking for a new challenge and opportunity? We are hiring a Maintenance Engineer to join our busy team!

The position is one geared towards increasing the uptime of the production facility, involving both the maintenance and repair of production, and any other equipment. The work will be both varied in discipline, and complexity. Principles of machine ownership will be adopted (TQM).

The Job:

  • Maintain all production machinery, ensuring availability to production
  • Repair all minor breakdowns electrical and mechanical regardless of bias (electrical or mechanical)
  • Carry out preventative maintenance work to production machinery as per manufacturers specifications
  • Monitor and repair were necessary, all utility services for machinery
  • Maintain Engineering area in terms of good house keeping
  • Carry out minor electrical and mechanical installations regardless of bias (electrical or mechanical)
  • Liaise with production supervisor/manager during production downtime, and installation work
  • Work in conjunction with Health & Safety Reps and the Health and Safety Office in Carrying out risk assessments on machinery and daily tasks, leading to recognised safe procedures of work
  • Extended training on specific machines (machine ownership)
  • Aid in the design, installation of new lines and processes

Professional skills, either of the below:

Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronic Engineering

Time served apprenticeship

The Person:

  • Ability to problem solve and repair as an individual
  • Excellent communicator
  • Keen attention to detail, analytical and problem-solving skills are essential
  • Strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact across all levels of the business
  • Pro-active, self-motivated and flexible in approach

The Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • On-site parking
  • Full-time, Permanent
  • Week 1: 3 days on/4 days off. Week 2: 4 days on/3 days off. Pattern will rotate every 4 weeks
  • Shift Allowance payable
  • Pension scheme

Applicants must be eligible to work in the Republic of Ireland.

Job restrictions

Candidates must be eligible to work in the Republic of Ireland.

Job details
Work experience:
Work experience is required
Duration of work experience:
Up to 2 years
Salary range:
Not provided
Date of expiry:

About company

Hilton Foods in Drogheda, Co Louth, commenced operations in March 2004 with the opening of our Fresh Meat production Facility. In 2007 we expanded our site with the opening of a second factory supplying Cured Meat products of bacon joints and hams, and own label sausages to our customer. The Hilton Foods Ireland facility in Drogheda is a dedicated site supplying our customer in… Find out more