Overview

A leading, multi-site food production organisation is seeking to appoint a Maintenance Improvement Lead for one of its key processing facilities Kilkenny. This is a high-impact role focused on driving reliability, continuous improvement, and maintenance excellence across a complex manufacturing environment.

Working closely with engineering, production, quality, and H&S teams, you will play a central role in enhancing plant performance, reducing downtime, and supporting long-term operational strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the resolution of plant, process, and reliability issues with a continuous improvement mindset
• Drive maintenance best practice across safety, compliance, and risk mitigation
• Identify and deliver improvement to optimise performance and reduce cost/downtime
• Support and enhance preventative maintenance systems, including condition-based monitoring
• Contribute to root cause analysis, incident investigations, and action tracking
• Work cross-functionally to improve maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution
• Manage contractors and ensure work is carried out to required standards
• Support SAP and maintenance system improvements, including PM optimisation and data accuracy
• Play a key role in developing technician capability, training plans, and maintenance standards
• You will work on a 3 on - 3 off rota, 12 hour day shifts.

Criteria

• Trade qualified (Mechanical/Electrical) or degree-qualified in Engineering
• Proven experience within a maintenance or reliability-focused role in manufacturing
• Strong understanding of continuous improvement and maintenance best practice
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical capability
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence across teams
• Experience with CMMS/SAP systems advantageous

Reward

• Competitive salary offering of €65K - €70K (Depending on experience)
• High achievable performance related bonus
• Generous holiday entitlement of 22 days bank holidays
• Company pension scheme.

This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of improvement strategy within a large-scale operation and work within a well-invested, high-performing manufacturing environment. An excellent opportunity not to be missed out on.

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