Electrical and Mechanical Expert

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Electrical and Mechanical Expert to join our team at Danpo A/S in Shercock, Co. Cavan. As an Electrical and Mechanical Expert, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth operation of our facilities and equipment.

About the Role

• Repair or replace malfunctioning electrical, pneumatic, mechanical, hydraulic components of equipment.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance in accordance with the preventative maintenance plan.
• Be proactive by routinely inspecting equipment and cabling panels to ensure they are up to standard.
• Assist with equipment upgrades from external contractors and management to ensure all new equipment is commissioned to the agreed time frame.
• Perform effective troubleshooting and corrective actions to identify hazards or malfunctions and repair or substitute damaged units.
• Prioritise reactive tasks in order of urgency and impact to business.
• Proactively familiarise yourself with new machinery/equipment.
• Completion and adherence to current and future engineering systems.
• Problem solving, root cause analyses ensuring a solution for all required tasks in a timely manner.
• Provide assistance and manage contractors' roles for electrical/mechanical duties.
• Ensure that electrical/mechanical activity in the production areas conforms to GMP standards and promotes a safe and healthy work environment through the continuous improvement of safety standards.
• Flexible working hours to cover the engineering, production, and project requirements.
• Support the Process engineer and your team in driving Lean/Optimisation initiatives using lean tools and implement initiatives across your area equipment and process in order to maximise reliability, utilising Problem-Solving tools including the 5 whys as a means to addressing the root cause of equipment problems.
• Ensure that equipment productivity (as measured by efficiency) is maximised through the continuous monitoring and trending of improvements and equipment availability (downtime reduction & increased uptime).
• Ensure that all activity in the unit areas conforms to GMP standards and promotes a safe and healthy work environment through the continuous improvement of safety standards.
• Day-to-day workloads to be controlled and managed through CMMS.
• Implement company GMP policies to maintain standards.
• Facilitate inspections and action inspection reports.
• Ensure quality of product is maintained above required levels.
• Achieve agreed internal and external customer satisfaction targets.
• Ensure that engineering activity in the production unit conforms to quality standards and promotes excellent product and process quality through the application of TPM principles.
• Track all costs in terms of labor and materials used by recording accurate information on Pirana.
• Be aware of maintenance budget and controls to keep within budget.
• Suggest ideas and initiatives to improve your process or assets performance.
• Surpass minimum quality standards and measures in your areas.
• Assist team to achieve health and safety targets.
• Comply with relevant HR policies and procedures.
• Comply with company reporting needs.
• Proactively identify and correct any risks identified in your areas.
• Behave in a manner that supports and demonstrates Company values, Challenge, Sense of Urgency & Openness.
• Comply with all measures contained in the company policies & procedures and employee handbook.
• Manage accidents in line with company policies.
• Work with process engineer & team to change business culture as per agreed company-wide initiatives.
• Technical / Engineering Downtime Targets to be achieved.
• Recording of downtime on all assets using the CMMS system.
• All work activities recorded through the CMMS system.
• Operate safe maintenance principles Achieve AIR Targets.
• Training plan to be adhered to – achieve target as per training plan objectives.
• Meet or exceed preventive maintenance targets for your assets.
• All compliances associated with Quality, GMP, H&S, Employee wellbeing, food safety and environmental are adhered to and targets set by your direct manager are achieved or exceeded.

Requirements

The successful candidate will have:

• Over 5 years' experience in FMCG Industry.
• Experience in the Food Operations sector.
• Experience in a poultry process industry (desirable).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to apply lean principles in practical application.

Benefits

This role offers a competitive salary of €