Maintenance Technician- Cork

Job Description

Amicus Recruitment has an excellent opportunity for a Maintenance Technician with a leading FMCG Multinational for a contract role. Why this company? It’s their brands and calibre of people in place- and several of their brands are Number 1 in their own category. With offices worldwide; a lot of leading household brands ; you cannot get any bigger or better.

Crucially; my client puts real value on their employees and even during Covid; have not made any redundancies and they look after their staff.

The Role

The maintenance technician helps to ensure the safe, smooth, and efficient running of the production process.

Reporting into the site engineering lead, the maintenance technician helps to minimize machine related downtime by carrying out routine maintenance tasks, addressing minor machine breakdowns, assisting in training of the production staff, and liaising with on-site contractors.

The role requires a hands-on approach but also an attention to detail for administrative work.

Key Activities:

Routine maintenance inspection:

– Observe and report any unusual behaviour with machinery.

– Carry out minor machine fixes and assist in any major issues.

– Communicating with other stake holders in the event of breakdowns i.e. Engineering, production etc.

Preventive maintenance duties:

– Carry out preventive maintenance tasks (PM’s) for known machine issues.

Administrative duties:

– Assist in developing new documentation i.e. SOP’s, OPL’s etc.

– Assist in training production floor when any changes are made to machinery/process.

– Update any documentation related to maintenance tasks or machine breakdowns.

– Technical support for other departments.

Maintain spares:

– Keep up to date and maintain critical spares.

On-site contractors:

– Point of contact for on-site contractors

For more information please contact Denis Mac Sweeney – Associate Director in Amicus Recruitment on 087 977 2742 or email me on

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