3x Lead Reliability Engineer - Kent, Hampshire and Sussex

Southern Water; Chatham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking three Lead Reliability Engineers to enhance asset reliability across Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire. This exciting role involves leading teams, implementing innovative maintenance strategies, and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental standards. You will play a crucial role in data analysis to identify failure patterns and improve asset performance. If you possess strong leadership skills and a passion for reliability engineering, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and management skills are essential.
• Experience with electrical, ICA, and mechanical assets is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams of reliability engineers to optimize asset maintenance.
• Implement reliability strategies and oversee data analysis on asset performance.

Skills

Leadership

Reliability Engineering

Data Analysis

Maintenance Techniques

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Tools

RCM

FMECA

Job description

3x Lead Reliability Engineer - Kent, Hampshire and Sussex

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Lead Reliability Engineer - 3x
Location: 1x Hampshire, 1x Sussex, 1x Kent - Hybrid (3 offices/sites and remote work). Driving license is essential.
Perm/FTC: Permanent
Hours: 37 hrs, Monday - Friday
Salary: Up to £63K, depending on skills and experience

We are recruiting three Lead Reliability Engineers for Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire to lead teams of reliability engineers. Your expertise will be vital in creating and implementing strategies to maintain assets at high standards, increasing reliability, and minimizing downtime.

Managing up to four direct reports, you will coach and develop your team, ensuring they are trained in reliability engineering, maintenance techniques, and best practices for sustainable asset management.

You will oversee the implementation of reliability strategies (RCM, PM, CBM) to optimize asset maintenance cost-effectively and efficiently, collaborating with maintenance and operational managers to ensure safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance.

Leading data analysis on asset performance, failure trends, and KPIs, you will make informed decisions to improve reliability. As part of continuous improvement, you will identify failure patterns and risks to eliminate asset failures.

You will ensure assets are utilized efficiently throughout their lifecycle, from acquisition to decommissioning, through effective maintenance strategies. You will also prepare reports for senior management to demonstrate the effectiveness of reliability initiatives.

Success in this role requires strong leadership, management skills, and experience with electrical, ICA, and mechanical assets. Knowledge of reliability analysis techniques (RCM, FMECA) and asset criticality is essential.

You should be highly organized, logical, and analytical, with excellent planning skills. Strong communication skills and an engaging style are important as you help shift the team towards a proactive, reliability-centered maintenance approach, aligning with AMP 8 objectives.

Interested? Why not apply?