Reliability Engineer

Greencore Group Lts; Selby; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturer in Selby is seeking a Reliability Improvement Engineer to enhance equipment reliability across its manufacturing site. The role involves managing asset performance, analyzing maintenance needs, and leading initiatives for continuous improvement. Ideal candidates will have experience in FMCG environments, a strong grounding in reliability indicators, and excellent problem-solving capabilities. You will also mentor junior staff and promote best practices in reliability management, contributing to overall business performance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Holidays

Pension up to 8% matched

Company share save scheme

Greencore Qualifications

Employee discount platform

Wellbeing Centre access

Qualifications

• Experience in full asset care strategies and maintenance workflows.
• Ability to analyze reliability performance indicators.
• Experience with leading manufacturing excellence, preferably in FMCG.
• Mentoring skills that promote reliability and business performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the site equipment reliability improvement strategy.
• Manage equipment criticality assessments for prioritizing improvements.
• Facilitate reliability workshops and manage preventive maintenance plans.
• Analyze lifecycle costs and prioritize asset maintenance efforts.

Skills

Knowledge of asset care strategies

Experience with reliability performance indicators

Problem-solving skills

Mentoring experience

Excel analysis skills

Familiarity with CMMS

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Why Greencore?

We're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose : to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 13,300 talented colleagues across 16 manufacturing sites and 17 distribution depots throughout the UK. Together, we bring delicious food to life, from sandwiches, and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles, and ready meals. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve revenues of £1.95bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots nationwide, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring our customers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

Here at Selby we employ a team over 750 colleagues. A site steeped in history, we are the UK's number one manufacturer of customer private label cooking sauces and pickles. We have been serving our customers out of our Selby site since 1914.

We produce more than 160 million units per year across 600 different product lines for customers such as Morrisons, Tesco & Asda.

What you'll be doing

As Reliability Improvement Engineer you will lead the site equipment reliability improvement strategy by identifying and managing current and future asset reliability risks by developing relevant improvement plans and driving the completion of effective maintenance activities.

• Manage the equipment criticality assessment of the asset footprint in terms of business risk (HSE, food safety, productivity loss etc.) to prioritise areas for improvement
• Provide data analysis for repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations to inform the development of structured, visible corrective action plans
• Facilitate reliability workshops to define / review the preventive maintenance (PM) plan systematically and periodically for all assets to ensure all relevant colleagues understand PM plans and standard operating procedures and incorporate them into their daily activities
• Analyse the life‑cycle cost of maintaining the asset portfolio versus the cost of repair and create an appropriate plan to prioritise efforts
• Identify and maintain a risk register for key assets to feed the need for repair or replacement projects to be included into the annual Capital Plan
• Develop detailed criticality analysis on spares, forecasting spares requirements and adapting stock levels to optimise the balance between the MTTR (the effect of a failure) and the cost of spare parts
• Act as a guide and trainer to other members of the maintenance team to support the uptake and adoption of the use of CMMS across the facility
• Ensure that there is effective utilisation of predictive / condition based methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems

What we're looking for

• Knowledge and experience of full asset care strategies and processes (including maintenance workflow, reliability, failure reduction, FMEA, TPM etc) and ability to define strategy based on business needs
• Experience and knowledge of reliability performance indicators, OEE, MTBF, MTTR, failures rates etc.
• Experience with leading manufacturing excellence preferably in an FMCG environment
• Experience with effective and successful problem solving - demonstrates the ability to think through problems, undertake appropriate analysis and take effective actions in relation to safety and reliability
• Keeps up‑to‑speed with industry advances in the tools and techniques relating to reliability approaches
• Experience mentoring junior members of a team and influencing / promoting across the engineering and manufacturing organisation the link between reliability and business performance
• Capacity to develop tools and conduct analysis in in Excel
• Has experience working with computers - specifically a working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Has experience with defining and deploying CMMS across multiple sites

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job‑related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.