Engineering Technician - Temporary
Posted 1 week ago by Dale Farm Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Ballymena, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Engineering Technician role is a temporary position based in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, focused on optimizing automated production filling and packing machinery in a fast-paced fresh milk production environment. The technician will work closely with production teams to ensure equipment performance through maintenance, fault diagnosis, and process improvement projects. Candidates should have relevant experience and qualifications, particularly in electrical engineering. The position offers a structured work schedule and opportunities for personal development within a leading food company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Optimizing performance of automated production filling and packing machinery.
- Ensuring equipment is properly set and maintained.
- Monitoring performance and carrying out fault diagnosis and repairs.
- Developing and implementing continuous process improvement projects.
- Conducting routine preventative maintenance.
- Overhauling mechanical plant and machinery.
- Performing general building fabric repairs.
- Maintaining and monitoring consumption of M&E utilities.
- Providing support for the installation and commissioning of new plant and equipment.
Key Skills:
- Significant, recent, and relevant experience (ideally at least 3 years post apprenticeship).
- Completion of an engineering apprenticeship/training program with an electrically biased qualification.
- Mechanical proficiency.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Ballymena
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Engineering Technician – Temporary approx. 6 months (Pennybridge) (Multi-Skilled Electrically Biased, Shift Position)
As an integral part of the multi skilled engineering team, your responsibility will be to optimise the performance of automated production filling and packing machinery and ancillary services. Working closely with production colleagues you will ensure that equipment is properly set and maintained; monitoring performance and carrying out fault diagnosis and running adjustments/repairs as necessary in a fast paced fresh milk production environment.
Your job will include:
- Developing and implementing continuous process improvement projects
- Routine preventative maintenance
- Overhauling mechanical plant and machinery
- General building fabric repairs
- Maintaining and monitoring consumption of M&E utilities
- Providing support for the installation and commissioning of new plant and equipment.
Desirable Criteria: Candidates should have significant, recent and relevant experience to the role, ideally at least 3 years post apprenticeship. Candidates should have undertaken an engineering apprenticeship/training programme with an electrically biased qualification and be mechanically proficient.
These posts offer an attractive salary package with excellent opportunities for personal development with a leading blue chip food company.
Hours of Work: 41.5hr per week on 8-week rota cycle, working 6 weeks of days and 2 weeks of nights split out over the cycle (normally 4 x 12hr days in row with exception of one week at 5 days that includes a 9hr Saturday). Nights are 5 x 9hrs in a row.
Learn more about the company and to apply online dalefarm.co.uk/careers
Completed application forms must be received before 5:00pm on Friday 5th September 2025
Only applications from EU Nationals or those with a valid permit to work in the UK will be accepted.
We are an equal opportunities employer
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