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Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Littleconnell Brewery, Co.Kildare

12-month Fixed-Term Contract

Closing date: 19/06/2026

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - €73,710 (including shift allowance) plus competitive benefits package with pension, shares scheme and bonus.

Join our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team.

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations. We are proud to be a global leader in beverage alcohol with an exceptional portfolio of brands, including Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Baileys, Smirnoff, Tanqueray, and many more.

A forward-thinking €200 million investment has brought an innovative, carbon-neutral brewery to life in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. This best-in-class facility is Ireland’s second-largest brewing operation and a powerhouse of sustainability, running entirely on renewable energy. It’s where iconic beers like Rockshore, Harp, Smithwick’s, and Kilkenny are crafted for a new generation.

About the Role 

We are seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer who will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of maintenance and asset care across the brewery, utilities, and water treatment plants. Focusing on end-to-end maintenance support, you will play a crucial role in both operations and maintenance within a semi-autonomous, shift-based environment, managing SAP process orders and maintenance planning as part of your rotational duties.

You will be instrumental in upholding our health and safety compliance standards, maintaining equipment and systems, ensuring asset availability and reliability to achieve high performance. In addition, you’ll be monitoring key performance indicators such as equipment efficiency. Your commitment to these areas will be vital in driving continuous improvement and supporting the success of the team.

Key Responsibilities:

Work across key production areas such as raw materials handling, the brewhouse, the cold block, and utilities plants (water treatment, process utilities, and refrigeration) and support & understand departmental KPI’s.

Uphold safety, quality, food safety, and environmental standards and procedures

Collaborate with different teams to effectively identify and resolve equipment-related issues that impact performance and provide a comprehensive maintenance backup service for production activities.

Coach operators to perform autonomous maintenance tasks, machine operational setups, and support growth in equipment capability as required. Support capital work including installation, commissioning, testing within areas as required; responsible for feeding into early equipment management.

Ensure all aspects of work order planning are delivered at start-of-shift meetings, including spare parts planning for planned maintenance.

Oversight of issuing permits for external contractors. Understand and perform isolations for Diageo and contract personnel

Apply Manufacturing Excellence tools and techniques to drive site performance towards world class in terms of customer service and quality

About you  

For this role you will be a time served Mechanical Technician and will have obtained a minimum of the Junior Certificate or equivalent.

In addition, you’ll have the following:

Ability to organise a variety of tasks and prioritise self and others accordingly

Knowledge of PM and Reliability Maintenance techniques

Understanding of asset performance and maintenance strategy with excellent process improvement and root cause problem solving skills

Knowledge of SAP-PM (Planning, scheduling and execution)

Basic financial awareness, understanding of business drivers, maintenance costs and budgeting processes.

FMCG experience is preferred but not essential

We’re looking for someone who can work well within a team as well as the ability to make effective conclusions and thrive in situations where they can solve problems.

Working with us

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Littleconnell Brewery

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-06-04

Mechanical Maintenance Technician

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