Maintenance Engineering Manager

Maintenance Engineering Manager
Shannon Co Clare 

Injection Moulding | Tooling | Machine Upgrades | Continuous Improvement

A genuinely exciting opportunity for an ambitious, technically strong engineering professional who wants responsibility, influence and long-term career progression within a growing manufacturing business.

This is a unique opportunity for a hands-on Maintenance Engineering Manager or Senior Maintenance Engineer to join a growing industrial manufacturing business and play a key role in the development of its engineering and production operations.

This is a hands-on, production-floor-focused role with responsibility for maintaining and improving injection moulding and production equipment, increasing machine reliability and driving continuous improvement.

The Role
The Maintenance Engineering Manager will take ownership of preventative and reactive maintenance, machine repairs, fault finding and root-cause analysis, as well as machine upgrades, modifications and equipment improvements.  The Maintenance Engineering Manager will work closely with injection moulding, tooling, automation and robotic equipment to improve uptime, efficiency and overall production performance.

The Maintenance Engineering Manager will also use machine and production data to identify improvement opportunities, develop maintenance processes and procedures, and lead, support and develop the engineering/maintenance team.

Requirements

  • Strong injection moulding and tooling knowledge
  • Excellent maintenance, machine-repair and fault-finding skills
  • Strong hands-on mechanical and technical ability
  • Experience with machine upgrades and equipment improvements
  • A strong continuous improvement mindset
  • Good computer and data-analysis skills
  • Experience in an industrial manufacturing environment
  • Strong leadership, people-management and communication skills
  • The ability to influence others and bring teams with you when implementing change
  • A practical, pragmatic and hands-on approach
  • Relevant engineering or technical qualifications are preferred

Please contact me for a confidential discussion or to discuss further.
Deirdre Sheehan
[email protected]
086 046 4671

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Job Details

Clare
16 September 2026
Job ID: 12407

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