Mechanical Engineering Lead - Asset Reliability (12m)

BRE Group; Watford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity package

Health cashback

Onsite facilities

BRE Academy access

Professional membership reimbursement

Job summary

BRE Group seeks a mechanical engineering professional to lead maintenance and asset strategy at our Watford site. You will ensure safety, compliance, and availability of critical test equipment, guiding improvements and coordinating with laboratories, Estates, and contractors.

You will drive reliability, review proposals, and champion asset lifecycle planning while supporting change, commissioning and handover of new assets.

Qualifications

• Qualified mechanical engineer or equivalent level of technical expertise.
• Proven experience maintaining and improving complex plant, process equipment or test systems.
• Strong fault-finding, diagnostic and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience planning and coordinating maintenance activities with risk and business impact.
• Experience managing, supervising and challenging specialist contractors and suppliers.
• Good knowledge of mechanical safety, statutory inspection requirements and safe isolation practices.
• The ability to assess technical risk and provide practical, evidence-based recommendations.
• Experience leading technical work, projects, teams or contractor-delivered services.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as the mechanical engineering lead and technical escalation point for critical test and process equipment.
• Coordinate planned and reactive maintenance activities, balancing safety, priorities and asset criticality.
• Collaborate with laboratory and operational teams to minimise downtime and disruption.
• Monitor performance, availability and reliability to identify improvement opportunities.
• Lead fault-finding investigations and root-cause analysis for recurring issues.
• Develop and maintain maintenance strategies, lifecycle plans and spares strategies.
• Review contractor proposals for safety, fit-for-purpose and cost-effectiveness.
• Oversee contractor performance with safe systems of work and commissioning.
• Support engineering change, minor projects and handover of new assets.
• Provide technical leadership and support emergency response when required.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Fault finding

Maintenance planning

Contractor management

Mechanical safety

Risk assessment

Stakeholder communication

Project leadership

Education

Mechanical engineering degree

Tools

CAFM

Job description

BRE Group seeks a mechanical engineering professional to lead maintenance and asset strategy at our Watford site. You will ensure safety, compliance, and availability of critical test equipment, guiding improvements and coordinating with laboratories, Estates, and contractors.

You will drive reliability, review proposals, and champion asset lifecycle planning while supporting change, commissioning and handover of new assets.