Job Description

Location : Ballymena
Job Ref: UDF/2025/475
Employment : Full-Time Temporary
Closing Date : 04 August 2025 05:00 pm

Dale Farm Cooperative is a UK dairy farmer co-operative owned by over 1200 dairy farmers who supply us with fresh milk. Dale Farm has operations throughout the UK and Ireland producing and distributing a wide range of dairy products which it sells across the UK and Ireland as well as exporting to over 45 countries worldwide.


At Dale Farm virtually every career discipline is represented in our workforce, from production, engineering and distribution, to sales & marketing and food technology/quality assurance, to Finance, HR and IT through to general management. Our standards are high and when we recruit we are looking for those with energy and drive, who are keen for responsibility and motivated to succeed with a record of achievement and with the potential to develop as the company grows.

Culture

Our culture is based on setting best in class standards, working to-wards and delivering on committed objectives, striving for constant improvement and involving everyone in the company. We strive to develop our people and harness everyone's contribution to deliver a winning team.

Equal Opportunities

The company is an Equal Opportunities employer and is committed to a safe, inclusive and relationship based workspace.

Benefits

In return, we offer a high degree of responsibility, plenty of challenge, good opportunities for learning and personal development and rewarding benefit packages, all within a fast moving and results oriented environment.

Engineering Technician - Temporary approx. 6 months (Pennybridge)

(Multi-Skilled Electrically Biased, Shift Position)

As an integral part of the multi skilled engineering team, your responsibility will be to optimise the performance of automated production filling and packing machinery and ancillary services. Working closely with production colleagues you will ensure that equipment is properly set and maintained; monitoring performance and carrying out fault diagnosis and running adjustments/repairs as necessary in a fast paced fresh milk production environment.


Your job will include:

Developing and implementing continuous process improvement projects Routine preventative maintenance Overhauling mechanical plant and machinery General building fabric repairs Maintaining and monitoring consumption of M&E utilities Providing support for the installation and commissioning of new plant and equipment.

Desirable Criteria:

Candidates should have significant, recent and relevant experience to the role, ideally at least 3 years post apprenticeship. Candidates should have undertaken an engineering apprenticeship/training programme with an electrically biased qualification and be mechanically proficient.

These posts offer an attractive salary package with excellent opportunities for personal development with a leading blue chip food company.

Hours of Work:

41.5hr per week on 8-week rota cycle, working 6 weeks of days and 2 weeks of nights split out over the cycle (normally 4 x 12hr days in row with exception of one week at 5 days that includes a 9hr Saturday). Nights are 5 x 9hrs in a row.


Learn more about the company and to apply online dalefarm.co.uk/careers





Completed application forms must be received before

5:00pm on

Monday 4

th

August 2025

Only applications from EU Nationals or those with a valid permit to work in the UK will be accepted.



We are an equal opportunities employer



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