Engineering Technician

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 seeking a skilled and motivated Engineering Technician to join our Site Engineering team. You will be an integral part of a team dedicated to providing best in class engineering support to the manufacturing operation.

Your role is to optimise production performance, quality and minimise plant downtime through effective preventative maintenance, fault diagnosis and repairs. The working pattern associated with this role is 3 on 3 off rotating 12 hour shifts including both day and night shifts

• Adhere to the company’s health, safety, environmental and personal standards policies.
• Complete daily maintenance tasks including preventative, reactive and corrective work to support the site manufacturing operation, delivering optimum plant availability and reliability.
• Must have the ability to diagnose and repair mechanical, electrical, and electronic equipment issues promptly to avoid production delays.
• Responsible for ensuring the quality of work carried out is maintained at the highest possible standard and compliant with site quality requirements.
• Attend daily meetings both within the engineering function and plant operations when required to provide maintenance updates.
• Liaise with Contractors during planned service maintenance and reactive maintenance.
• Ensure that all maintenance activities are recorded on the CMMS.
• Lead and support improvement initiatives
• Support the installation and commissioning of new plant and equipment.
• Work as part of an inter-dependent team with flexibility to take on all other reasonable tasks.
• Ensure all tools, equipment and work areas are kept in good condition

• A minimum of 3 years engineering experience (mechanical or electrical) in a fast moving manufacturing environment.
• Time served apprenticeship (electrical/mechanical) with a recognised UK qualification.
• Highly motivated with the ability to perform in a highly challenging, expanding environment.
• Confident individual with excellent communication skills with the ability and skill set to develop and support the team.
• Excellent problem-solving skills – methodical & analytical approach to work.
• A high degree of IT literacy to include Microsoft Office and CMMS
• Must have the ability to follow electrical schematics, pneumatics, mechanical component drawings, as built and as installed drawings.
• Ability to read and understand electrical drawings
• Demonstrate strong attention to detail when carrying out tasks
• A flexible approach
• Experience of working in the food Industry
• Experience of working in FMCG sector

We have a lot to offer at Dale Farm, not only to our farmer members that we support but also to our employees, and we are committed to a learning and development journey for all. In addition to a competitive salary commensurate with the role and our standard benefits such as 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and contributory company pension, we also offer benefits such as Life Assurance, full wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme, and enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave.

We are proud to promote an open and supportive culture which is based on our core values:

Teamwork | Positivity | Resolve | Ambition | Curiosity | Accountability