Asset & Reliability Engineer

Jackson Hogg; Billingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

12% non-contributory pension

Life insurance

Group income protection

Job summary

Jackson Hogg are delighted to be exclusively partnering with our long-standing Global client for the appointment of an Asset & Reliability Engineer to join their growing team on a permanent basis. This is a day shift position, Monday to Friday.

This newly created role focuses on supporting asset integrity, improving equipment reliability, and providing technical direction across plant equipment, utilities and facilities to support safe, compliant operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in process safety and environmental equipment management.
• Engineering qualification or relevant practical experience.
• Experience in industrial maintenance, reliability or asset integrity.
• Knowledge of safe systems of work and risk assessments.
• Ability to investigate failures and recommend practical solutions.
• Understanding of equipment failure mechanisms and maintenance strategies.

Responsibilities

• Support safety and environmental equipment maintenance and CMMS records.
• Monitor asset condition and risks requiring intervention.
• Develop preventive maintenance strategies using criticality and history.
• Lead investigations into recurring failures and action follow-up.
• Monitor reliability metrics like MTBF and MTTR where data exists.
• Provide technical support for repairs and replacement specs.
• Develop prioritized plans for equipment replacement and capital investment.

Skills

Process safety

Asset integrity

Industrial maintenance

Maintenance strategies

Permits to work

Failure investigations

Education

Engineering qualification

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Jackson Hogg are delighted to be exclusively partnering with our long-standing Global client for the appointment of an Asset & Reliability Engineer to join their growing team on a permanent basis. This is a day shift position, Monday to Friday.

This is a newly created position to focus on supporting asset integrity and improving equipment reliability. The role provides technical direction and assurance across plant equipment, utilities and facilities, supporting safe, reliable an environmentally compliant operations.

The role develops maintenance strategies, investigates recurring failures and recommends technical improvements and asset investment priorities. It challenges ineffective maintenance or unacceptable equipment condition and escalates concerns to the Engineering Manager.

Job Description

• Support the management of safety and environmental critical equipment, ensuring maintenance, inspection and testing requirements are clearly defined and recorded in the CMMS
• Monitor asset condition and integrity, identifying deterioration, obsolescence and risks requiring intervention.
• Develop and review preventive maintenance strategies using equipment criticality, failure history, manufacturer recommendations and inspection findings.
• Lead or support investigations into recurring failures, follow through agreed actions and review their effectiveness.
• Monitor reliability performance, including repeat failures, equipment availability, mean time between failures and mean time to repair, where reliable data is available.
• Provide technical support for repairs, replacement specifications and maintenance methods, coordinating specialist input where required.
• Develop prioritised plans for equipment replacement, refurbishment and capital investment complete with high-quality justifications.

Skills Required

• Understanding of process safety, safety and environmental critical equipment, inspection requirements and escalation of equipment defects.
• Relevant engineering qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in industrial maintenance, reliability or asset integrity. Chemical manufacturing or comparable process industry experience would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of safe systems of work, including permits to work, mechanical and electrical isolations, risk assessments.
• Knowledge of equipment failure mechanisms and maintenance strategies within the role’s technical discipline, recognising when specialist advice is required.
• Ability to investigate failures, assess technical evidence and recommend practical solutions.

With a low turn over of staff, and exciting plans for the future this is an excellent time to join the business to grow and develop your knowledge. You will be working with exceptional Engineers & Managers. Along with this there are a number of other brilliant benefits;

• Discretionary Bonus scheme
• 12 % Non-contributory Pension Scheme
• Life Insurance & Group Income Protection