Closing Date for Application:
Monday 18/05/2026
About Us
Polypipe Ulster, part of the Genuit Group, designs and manufactures products for the domestic, commercial, and industrial construction sectors.
Our exceptional teams apply their first-class technical, customer service and manufacturing expertise to understand our customers’ needs and solve tomorrow’s water, climate, and ventilation challenges. Our loyal and highly skilled workforce are key to our success of delivering sustainable climate and water management solutions, everywhere.
Role Overview
Install, maintain, improve and repair equipment, plant, services and building installations to set levels effectively in compliance with best practices ensuring production efficiency can be met within a safe well-presented facility.
Respond to technical issues affecting production and maintain electrical and mechanical services through Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM).
Hours of Work :- Monday 8am to 4.30pm and Tuesday to Friday 8am to 4.15pm
Key responsibilities:
- Attend breakdowns, identify fault and problem solve, with minimal downtime to production
- Carry out diagnosis of faults, the maintenance and repairs to all types of plant and equipment in a safe, timely and professional manner and return equipment to operational service
- Estimate length of time required to complete a job and likely consequences of failure to complete work within required timescales
- Identify and escalate any activity that has the potential to cause harm or damage
- Report breakdown root causes, equipment faults and concerns to management
- Ensure all work is undertaken to a high quality standard and adheres to all quality standard regulations
- Identify spares requirements and log usage
- Assist in the development of planned preventative maintenance (PPM) schedules
- Carry out PPM schedules as necessary and planned work orders as required and provide feedback to develop the system
- Assist with the moving, installation, repositioning of machines and equipment
- Plan and prioritise workload to support production and ensure efficient use of working time
- Fill in job tickets/log completion of work on the computerised maintenance management system
- Work within 5S (Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain) methodology to maintain workplace to a high standard
- Ensure all personal protective equipment is identified, always available, correctly used and all associated problems are reported to management
- Promote environmental issues and ensure all company procedures are understood and followed
- Ensure a safe working environment exists for self and colleagues, ensuring all health, safety environmental and quality management procedures are followed and achieve the company’s and departmental KPI targets
- Keep up with current and developing manufacturing and engineering trends regarding maintenance
- Quality control of work by appropriate reviews
Skills and Experience
- Time served electrical maintenance engineer
- 18th Edition
- Substantial experience in a high volume manufacturing environment, preferably plastics
- Ideally multiskilled with an electrical bias.
- Practical hands-on approach to problem solving
- Strong PC skills and experience of packages such as SAP (Standard Analyses: Purchasing Information System)
- Mechanical, electrical, electronic or software background with a working knowledge of the other disciplines
- Commercial understanding of the impact of failure/downtime on production and ultimately customer delivery
Here at the Genuit Group we recognise and develop the contribution our people make to the Group’s success and are committed to attracting talent from the widest pool. We have a role to play in making the built environment more sustainable, building a low carbon business ourselves as well as delivering sustainable solutions at scale.