Maintenance Technician, £45.070 + 15% shift allowance, Irvine

Responsibilities:

• Perform safe and effective reactive and planned maintenance on production plant and equipment, ensuring both production and site downtime are minimised
• Complete all routine maintenance tasks on schedule
• Install new equipment as required
• Interrogate, fault-find, and resolve issues across company equipment and systems
• Actively participate in summer and winter overhaul programmes, ensuring all plant machinery is serviced, repaired and maintained appropriately
• Engage fully in continuous improvement initiatives, meetings, and assigned tasks
• Complete work permits and ensures all duties are carried out in full compliance with health and safety standards
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues at all levels to support wider business objectives
• Contribute to special projects when required

Requirements:

• Time-served, multi-skilled maintenance professional, ideally holding 18th Edition Wiring Regulations certification
• Experience working within a production environment and operating on shift patterns
• Desirable knowledge of PLCs, servo drives, robotics, and line automation systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capability to prioritise tasks and meet demanding deadlines
• High attention to detail, strong standards, and a results-driven mindset
• Flexible and willing to work shifts
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both production and maintenance teams as well as management
• Excellent planning and organisational abilities, with the capability to follow direction as needed
• Self-motivated, customer-focused, and able to work independently using own initiative
• Proven experience working with the systems noted above

About Our Client:

Since 1913, this organisation has produced high-quality timber products and has grown into a leading presence in the timber-processing sector across Ireland and the UK. Operating from facilities in both countries, it supplies a wide range of timber materials for construction, pallet manufacturing, and fencing markets.