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Job Description
Job Summary: Assistant Engineering Manager required to support the engineering team in a food manufacturing company, ensuring business and customer expectations are met, and contributing to improving production efficiency.
Our client company, based in County Monaghan, is seeking an experienced professional to join their team as an Assistant Engineering Manager. This role will play a crucial part in ensuring the smooth running of production, maintaining high standards of engineering workmanship, and contributing to continuous improvement projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the engineering function, aligning with the site engineering strategy and annual engineering departmental targets.
- Liaise with operations manager to ensure smooth running of production and attend daily meetings to review.
- Assist in assigned long-term preventative maintenance programs and projects.
- Develop and maintain relations between Engineering and other departments.
- Review equipment failure & OEE trends to implement continuous improvement actions and measure performance.
- Manage and contribute towards continuous improvement projects.
- Support site technical issue resolution and completion of improvement actions through good engineering practices and guidance.
- Ensure high standards of engineering workmanship and housekeeping across the site, incorporating 5s processes.
- Identify and share best practice and contribute towards raising awareness, improving performance, and transitioning to a pro-active engineering culture.
- Manage workload planning, labour utilisation through CMMS.
- Completion of reactive maintenance work when machinery breaks down to ensure impact of line efficiencies is minimized.
- Ensure best value and cost-effective use of resources to ensure efficiency on site.
- Weekend site management, site services, contractor control, supporting and liaising with senior management team.
Requirements:
- 6+ years working within Food Manufacturing Sector.
- Support, comply and ensure complicity with Health & Safety regulations, Quality and Environmental standards, and all other Company policies and procedures.
- Experience carrying out Mechanical & Electrical Maintenance Repairs.
- A self-starter, motivated and able to positively motivate others.
- Input into Group Engineering and provide feedback, information and help develop SOPs.
- Excellent communication skills.