Maintenance Engineer - Kilkenny Cheese Ltd

Maintenance Engineer

Kilkenny Cheese Ltd

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the start-up of Kilkenny Cheese Limited. Kilkenny Cheese is a joint venture between Tirlán and Dutch family business Royal A-ware, a 130-year-old company with strong positions in EU and global markets. The facility is to be located at a greenfield site adjacent to Tirlán’s specialised nutrition facility at Belview, Co Kilkenny.

About Royal A-ware

Royal A-ware is a traditional Dutch family business with a passion for food and with a strong entrepreneurial attitude. Demand-led, we offer our clients tailored products and services. In recent years investments have been made in the development and management of own supply chains resulting in independence, efficiency, and flexibility. We are specialized in producing, ripening, cutting, and packaging cheese, and also produce and package cream and fresh dairy products. Kilkenny Cheese | Homepage

About Tirlán

Tirlán, formerly known as Glanbia Ireland, is a world-class food and nutrition co-operative, with a diverse portfolio of quality ingredients, leading consumer and agri brands.

The farmer-owned co-operative has a first-class track record of success in the global market. Rooted in a rich heritage of family farming and embedded in its communities, Tirlán has evolved to bring the passion of its farmers and their high-quality milk and grains to the international marketplace. Using modern-day technology and applying the best processes to its milk pool of three billion litres and its premium grains portfolio, Tirlán now exports to more than 80 countries.  Its award-winning brands are household names in Ireland, and include Ireland’s number one consumer dairy brand, Avonmore

Role Summary

Based in Belview in South Kilkenny the role reports to the Maintenance Manager. The Maintenance Engineer will have responsibility for the delivery of the Kilkenny Cheese Maintenance & Calibration Programme for Production Plant and Services Equipment. This is a key role in meeting stringent food safety, quality & customer requirements. Working with a team of maintenance technicians to deliver a world class maintenance & reliability system and performance for the site.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Ensure all Maintenance operations are conducted in a safe and controlled environment
• Act as escalation point for maintenance issues across the site ensuring solutions are provided and actions to address root cause are implemented.
• Trend and analyse plant performance data to evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance and calibration systems such that continuous improvement on Key metrics can be made.
• Develop and implement systems for scheduling and documenting the performance of calibration & maintenance activities.
• Routinely plan, administer and assess Condition Based Monitoring and Reliability Centred Maintenance activities
• Ensure all maintenance operations and calibrations are completed as per the appropriate site procedure & schedule to various pieces of equipment and instrumentation
• Play a lead role in the preparation for and support of customer site audits and work to ensure the plant in a state of constant audit readiness.
• Ensure all documentation pertaining to maintenance & calibration is stored and organised in a controlled manner.
• Train team members in the maintenance of instrumentation & equipment as required.
• Set up, calibration and troubleshooting of various instrumentation.
• Identify and implement plant improvements to drive efficiency improvements
• Responsible for the preparation and maintenance of maintenance and calibration documentation
• Implement and maintain engineering standards for new site.
• Liaise with external vendors to improve and optimise existing plant and service equipment

KEY REQUIREMENTS 

• Third level degree in an Engineering discipline and or trade qualified with an electrical or mechanical bias
• 3 + years industrial experience in a calibration & instrumentation role, preferably in the Dairy, Food & Beverage or Pharma sector in a GMP context
• Experience in Mechanical, Electrical & Instrumentation maintenance activities
• Experience operating within, and delivering on, the highest quality standards in the manufacturing sector and current cGMP standards
• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a cross functional team.
• Ability to interact with Maintenance IT process’s such as MES & SAP PM.
• Experience in troubleshooting and interacting with PLCs  using various interface devices and software.
• Proficient user of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Knowledge and experience using SAP PM (or similar CMMS system) desirable
• Experience in the Dairy, Food & Beverage or Pharma sector is desirable
• Knowledge of Dairy or similar food processing industry
• Ability to manage a range of complex projects to completion
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
• Self-motivating & enthusiastic individual
• Desire to develop and progress as an individual

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Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Tirlán embraces diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion. We are committed to building diverse teams where different perspectives drive innovation and growth. We strive to create an inclusive workplace where people can bring their true self to work and achieve their full potential.

At Tirlán, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, or disability status. 

At Tirlán our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.

Tirlán owns leading consumer and agri brands such as Avonmore, Kilmeaden Cheese, Millac, Solmiko, Truly Grass Fed, Premier Milk, Wexford, mymilkman.ie and GAIN Animal Nutrition. 

About us:

The farmer-owned co-operative has a first-class track record of success in the global market. Rooted in a rich heritage of family farming and embedded in its communities, Tirlán has evolved to bring the passion of its farmers and their high-quality milk and grains to the international marketplace. Using modern-day technology and applying the best processes to its milk pool of three billion litres and its premium grains portfolio, Tirlán now exports to more than 80 countries.  Its award-winning brands are household names in Ireland, and include Ireland’s number one consumer dairy brand, Avonmore.

The organisation draws on a wealth of experience to deliver exceptional products and tailored nutritional solutions including Kilmeaden, Wexford, Truly Grass Fed, Solmiko, CheddMax and GAIN. Tirlán has a strong market presence in the UK, France, Germany, UAE, the US, North Africa, Japan and China.

A talented team of over 2,100 people manage Tirlán’s network of 11 production facilities and 52 agri retail outlets serving its communities with annual revenues of over €3 billion expected in 2022. Tirlán’s state-of-the-art headquarters in Kilkenny city and innovation centre in Ballyragget promote innovation, creativity and collaboration. Tirlán is committed to sustainability throughout the organisation through its comprehensive Living Proof programme, and the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) contained within it. For more information visit www.tirlan.com

Tirlán is a Values Based Organisation - www.tirlan.com