Facilities Technician
This is a key role requiring extensive technical and organisational skills. The Facilities Technician is required to execute day-to-day facilities activities and achieve departmental goals for Safety, Quality, and Operational Effectiveness. The technician is primarily responsible for the maintenance & calibration of plant utilities, process equipment and generation of associated documentation. (paper or electronic).

Duties

• Ensures that all external calibration equipment is scheduled and completed in a timely manner
• Generate work orders, enter comprehensive job details on a regular basis
• Troubleshooting equipment and work with control system and PLC’s
• Support the development of an annual Facilities budget
• Communicate to a Facilities supervisor/Manager all issues that affect the plant.
• Oversee equipment upgrades and refurbishment projects, effectively coordinating with vendor support in line with change control policies
• Schedule and ensure critical third-party activities are executed and are completed as per site procedures
• Monitor, log and review all call outs and schedule call out rota in line with production demands
• Is regularly available on standby to respond to various call outs in relation to utility and process alarms and problems
• Participate and Lead (if appropriate) improvement projects as deemed by Management
• Responsible for ensuring the Computerized Maintenance Management system (Emaint) used effectively for management of all PM, Stock control calibration activities including planning and associated records
• Ensure that routine preventative maintenance programme is adequate and completed in full and in a timely manner as defined per local Standard Operating Procedures and/or Work Instructions.
• Responsible to review Unplanned Maintenance completion and adequacy,
• Responsible for recording and tracking Planned Maintenance and Unplanned Maintenance activities,
• Ensures that equipment is suitable and are maintained to a sufficient standard to permit continued processing to validated parameters; this includes actively and proactively participate to continuous improvement of the equipment and process
• Schedule and complete Bi Weekly Maintenance checks in and complete outstanding tasks from investigation.
• Responsible for the coordination of projects and Improvements initiative activities related to EO under the directive of the Facilities Manager and/or Site Quality Manager.
• Consistently improve facility performance to ensure operational efficiency and site safety standards

Requirements:

• Ideally 3 years’ Experience in qualified trade
• Level 6 in qualified industry or equivalent certificate
• An ability to build relationships operations teams is key.
• A structured, logical thinker with good analytical skills, and excellent spreadsheet and presentation skills.
• Project management experience is an advantage
• Continuous improvement, Mechanical, Electrical background is an advantage
• Provide motivation, support and guidance to all employees
• Strong organizational, verbal and written communication skills with energy and charisma.
• Establish workflow policies that enhance speed and efficiency without compromising product safety or integrity
• Proficient with MS Office suite.

For more information on this role please contact Padraig Lyons on
consulting@hero.ie or 086 128 7246

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