Engineering - Reliability Manager

Finsbury Food Group; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced Pension

Death in Service

Employee Assistance

Job summary

Finsbury Food Group is seeking an experienced Reliability Engineering Manager for the Fletchers site in Sheffield. You will lead asset care and reliability initiatives, using data to reduce downtime and improve OEE across the operation.

You’ll own investigations, drive CAPAs, and develop engineers and operators in reliability practices, partnering with teams to deliver safe, efficient production.

Qualifications

• 3+ important engineering qualifications including reliability focus.
• Experience applying root-cause analysis to industrial problems.
• Strong background in asset care and maintenance planning.

Responsibilities

• Own the site's Asset Reliability and Asset Care strategy, driving improvements.
• Use performance data to identify opportunities and set improvement plans.
• Lead RC/M and CAPA investigations, ensuring actions are implemented and tracked.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Production and Safety to minimize downtime and improve OEE.

Skills

Root Cause Analysis

Structured problem-solving

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Asset management

Education

Mechanical/Electrical/Controls & Automation or Reliability Engineering degree

Tools

CMMS

Power BI

Job description

Salary: Competitive We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Reliability Engineering Manager to join the Engineering team at our Fletchers site, within the Finsbury Food Group.

Engineering – Reliability Manager

Location: Fletchers Bakeries, Sheffield

Shift: Mon – Fri, Dayshift

Salary: Competitive We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Reliability Engineering Manager to join the Engineering team at our Fletchers site, within the Finsbury Food Group.

With over 125 years of baking heritage, Fletchers Bakery has built a reputation for quality and innovation. Alongside Kara Foodservice, the site produces an extensive portfolio including gourmet brioche, traditional sliced bread, bloomer loaves, and a range of vegan and gluten-free bakery products.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the UK's leading speciality bakery groups, with strong investment in our sites, technology and people. At Finsbury Food Group, we're passionate about developing our teams and continually improving how we operate through innovation, investment and Operational Excellence.

Reporting to the Site Engineering Lead, you'll take a leading role in developing and delivering the site's Asset Reliability strategy, ensuring our plant and equipment operates safely, reliably and efficiently.

This is a role for someone who is passionate about getting to the root of engineering problems rather than simply fixing the symptoms. You'll use engineering data, reliability techniques and structured problem solving to identify performance losses, optimise our asset care strategy and drive sustainable improvements across the site.

Working closely with Engineering, Production, Technical, Health & Safety and Continuous Improvement teams, you'll help create a proactive reliability culture that reduces unplanned downtime, improves OEE and ensures our assets are capable of meeting both current and future production requirements.

This is what you’ll actually do!

You’ll own and develop the site's Asset Reliability and Asset Care strategy, identifying opportunities to improve equipment performance, reduce losses and ensure the long-term reliability of our manufacturing assets.

A major part of your role will be using performance data to understand where our biggest opportunities lie. You’ll monitor and improve key measures including MTBF, MTTR, OEE, asset availability and unplanned downtime, turning data into clear improvement plans and measurable results.

You’ll lead structured investigations into engineering failures and non-conformities, using Root Cause Analysis and A3 problem-solving techniques to get to the underlying cause. You’ll then ensure corrective and preventative actions are implemented, tracked and embedded to prevent recurrence.

You’ll Also

• Develop, optimise and continually review the site's Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programme.
• Develop asset care plans based on asset criticality, performance, condition and business requirements.
• Lead performance and loss reviews, identifying and owning key engineering loss-elimination workstreams.
• Drive Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and continuous improvement activity across the site.
• Lead engineering-related NCR investigations and ensure effective corrective and preventative actions (CAPAs) are implemented.
• Use engineering and performance data to identify trends, recurring losses and opportunities for improvement.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to coordinate planned maintenance and minimise disruption to production.
• Develop the capability of engineers, apprentices and asset users, building reliability knowledge across Engineering and Operations.
• Support condition monitoring and predictive maintenance approaches to identify potential failures before they impact production.
• Maintain robust engineering documentation and compliance records.
• Support reliability investment decisions through risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis and return-on-investment evaluation.
• Contribute to engineering projects and the introduction of new technology, ensuring reliability and maintainability are considered from the outset.
• Support site audits and ensure engineering activity continues to meet internal, external, safety and regulatory requirements.

Ideally this is you!

• Degree or HND qualified in Mechanical, Electrical, Control & Automation or Reliability Engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline.
• At least 5 years' experience within a reliability-focused engineering role in an FMCG environment.
• Strong experience developing and implementing asset care and reliability improvement programmes.
• Excellent root cause analysis and structured problem-solving capability.
• Experience of Reliability Centred Maintenance, asset criticality analysis and PPM optimisation.
• Strong understanding of engineering reliability measures including MTBF, MTTR, OEE and unplanned downtime.
• Experienced in investigating engineering non-conformities and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• A highly analytical approach, with the ability to use engineering and performance data to make informed decisions.
• Familiar with CMMS systems and maintenance planning/scheduling tools.
• Confident leading cross-functional improvement activity and influencing stakeholders from the shop floor through to senior leadership.
• Experience coaching and developing others, with the ability to build reliability capability across Engineering and Operations.
• Commercially aware, with experience managing budgets and evaluating the cost and return of engineering improvements.
• Strong IT skills across Microsoft packages, with Power BI experience advantageous.
• Proactive, organised and solutions-focused, with a genuine passion for continuous improvement.

Experience within food manufacturing or bakery would be particularly advantageous, as would an IOSH or NEBOSH qualification.

What’s In It For You

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees.
• Death in Service Benefit.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme, open to colleagues and their families.
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Employee Recognition Awards.
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities, including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development courses.
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built on the talented people who work across our business, so employee development is incredibly important to us.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to develop the skills and capabilities to achieve both their own personal goals and our wider business goals.

If you're an experienced engineering leader looking for your next challenge and want the opportunity to make a real impact within a growing manufacturing business, we'd love to hear from you!