Lead Reliability Engineer — Drive Asset Performance

MacGregor Black; Hereford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MacGregor Black is partnering with a leading food manufacturing business in Hereford to recruit a Lead Reliability Engineer on a permanent basis. You will oversee reliability initiatives across a large site and collaborate with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, and Planning to boost equipment availability.

The ideal candidate has proven reliability/maintenance leadership experience in a high-volume environment and is capable of driving proactive maintenance and KPI improvements.

Qualifications

• HND or above in Engineering.
• Proven experience within reliability, maintenance or engineering.
• Experience in high-volume manufacturing.
• Experience leading engineering teams or reliability initiatives.
• Strong understanding of CMMS, asset management and KPIs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Reliability Engineering team.
• Develop proactive, predictive and condition-based maintenance strategies.
• Analyse equipment performance and downtime data to identify recurring issues.
• Lead root cause analysis and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Drive improvements in asset reliability, availability and performance.
• Support planned maintenance, engineering projects and continuous improvement programmes.
• Monitor engineering KPIs including OEE, MTBF and MTTR.
• Lead cross-functional reliability reviews and improvement projects.
• Work with contractors and OEMs to deliver reliability improvements.
• Review PM strategies, asset care documentation, calibration and equipment assessments.
• Identify training and development opportunities within the Reliability team.
• Help develop a proactive reliability culture across the wider engineering function.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Maintenance engineering

Team leadership

Analytical problem-solving

Education

HND or above in Engineering

Tools

CMMS software

Job description

MacGregor Black is partnering with a leading food manufacturing business in Hereford to recruit a Lead Reliability Engineer on a permanent basis. You will oversee reliability initiatives across a large site and collaborate with Engineering, Maintenance, Operations, and Planning to boost equipment availability.

The ideal candidate has proven reliability/maintenance leadership experience in a high-volume environment and is capable of driving proactive maintenance and KPI improvements.