Maintenance Planner

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

Role Summary

Based in Belview in South Kilkenny this roles reports to the Maintenance Manager This role is a key interface between maintenance and production functions onsite and will be responsible for developing work plans that ensure safe, compliant, and efficient maintenance in line with standards of the food industry.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Owner of CMMS systems for Kilkenny Cheese Ltd Maintenance function. 

• Scheduling of all planned planned/preventative maintenance in conjunction with resource scheduler/production planner. 

• Ensure correct tools, parts and equipment are present for planned and reactive maintenance – including the creation of Job plans 

• Management of short term contractors coming to site for planned maintenance functions. 

• Responsible for periodic review, analysis & adjustment of PM plans, to reflect historical breakdown data and on-going criticality analysis of all equipment. 

• Ensure key performance indicators are captured and reported for equipment reliability, departmental performance (KPI – Reliability, Uptime, PM Schedule Adherence, Production Impacts), forecasted maintenance activity and scheduled business flow process;

• Analyse data and make recommendations for improving plant operations and solving maintenance related problems, provide CBA or comms to support ;

• Responsible for sanitary maintenance program 

• Ensures compliance of all users to Maintenance process flow for request for work, parts & cost approval 

• Implementing program with existing and new maintenance team members and Production. 

• Coordinate plant shutdowns to attain all essential spare parts & work schedules, ensure planned work completion and manage planned cost. 

• Establish, maintain and improve the maintenance planning and scheduling business flow process to increase planning effectiveness and efficiency;

• Develop cost and time estimate of planned maintenance work; 

• Collaborate with Maintenance Manager to schedule manpower and resource for planned maintenance work;

• Support the closure of Event reports, RCA’s, SIM’s, Leaks and Hygiene ensuring plant is always Audit ready

• Support proactively all EH&S and Quality procedures and policies 

Experience

• Excellent organisational and time management skills 

• An in-depth understanding of manufacturing operations and equipment. 

• Work to ‘best practice’ techniques such as lean manufacturing, Six Sigma/GPS and drive Continuous Improvement projects

• Proficient user of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint

• Knowledge and experience using M3 CMMS system (or simliar) is desirable 

• Experience in the Dairy, Food & Beverage or Pharma sector is desirable 

Person Profile

• Knowledge of Dairy or similar food processing industry 

• Ability to manage a range of complex projects to completion 

• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills 

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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. 

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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.