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Reliability Engineer
Date: 29 Jul 2025
Location: Worksop, GB
Job TitleReliability Engineer |Job Type Fixed Term | LocationWorksop, S81 7AY |Salary:£54,000
Role Purpose:
As a Reliability Engineer, you will be supporting the Engineering Team Manager and operations team in delivering engineering excellence, technical support and advice to all functions associated with the department.
You will drive continuous improvement in asset care, breakdown prevention and recovery and asset improvements. You will complete and track RCA on all known, prioritised, unplanned downtime.
You will collaborate with the Deputy Team Manager and CI team, interrogating data and KPIs to optimise improvement efforts.
What you could be doing - includes:
Safety, Health, Environment and Food Safety
- Ensure engineering activities are compliant with Premier Policies and Statutory Legislative requirements, in terms of ethical standards, safety, food hygiene and staff management.
- Support the engineering function to comply with legislative and Premier ethical standards in terms of safety, food hygiene and staff management.
- Support a Safety & environmental culture of safe working practices by personally demonstrating safe behaviour for the health and safety of Premier employees and contractors.
- Support a Safety, Health and Environment culture which encourages personal responsibility.
- Attend all compliance-based training/competency training as required.
- Be an active member of the engineering departmental safety team.
People
- Support the engineering teams in terms of daily delivery of the departmental & site requirements.
- Work as part of the site team to deliver manufacturing excellence in terms of engineering support.
- In conjunction with the Engineering Manager, Deputy Team Manager and team to support the Daily Direction Setting process, e.g. Engineering daily meeting.
- Support the delivery of departmental and site engineering KPIs.
- Produce reports of performance to support any plans and KPIs for Site.
- Take an active role in site engineering projects and strategies.
- Support an effective and efficient engineering team, who are motivated, flexible and able to adapt to changing departmental and site requirements.
- Support established standards and procedures including aspects of new asset realisation, safe working practices and management of contractors.
- Coach new and existing Technicians and act as a mentor to departmental apprentices.
- Work with the site L&D team to establish new learning standards and asset care initiatives.
Systems and Maintenance Management
- Actively involved in the engineering team maintaining departmental and building services.
- Drive maintenance improvements through the SAP planners working to optimise weekly/monthly plans.
- Assist in optimisation of SAP Planned Maintenance activities.
- Works cross functionality to maximise utilisation of departmental assets.
- Maintain effectiveness, reliability and benefit from existing departmental technology.
- Continuously look for supplier optimisation and maintaining minimal inventories.
- Support planned maintenance programmes with consideration to optimising performance
- Manage and coordinate assigned contractor relations and activity.
- Support the team to ensure capability of plant is optimised for the requirements of the business, including the provision and use of utilities, i.e. water, electricity, steam, compressed air, effluent treatment and removal, while complying with environment legislation.
- Proactively support improvement and cost savings, whilst maintaining the ability to meet varying and increasing demands of the business.
- Work cross functionally to deliver a consistent and dynamic approach to Continuous Improvement and Focused Improvement.
Project Management
- Support the implementation and delivery of capital, revenue, and improvement projects.
- Deliver improvement plans covering operational KPI’s for processes and equipment installations.
- Consistently deliver all engineering project types on time, in full and within budget.
Communication
- Meet with departmental engineering teams regularly to ensure communication and best working practices are shared.
- To support the structure, culture and behavioural values of the engineering team.
- Ensure that the department is provided with adequate and timely resources.
- Establish channels of communicating with key stakeholders across the site.
- Maintain effective dialogue with functional support area, i.e., Technical, Finance, R&D, Health & Safety, Environmental and infrastructure.
- Maintain effective dialogue with external stakeholders including suppliers, contractors, service providers, etc.
What we need from you:
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
- Time serves Multi-Skilled Engineer
- Manufacturing experience in an FMCG environment
- Engineering maintenance experience in an FMCG environment
- Computerised Maintenance Management System experience
- IT literate – proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications – Word, Excel, Power Point etc.
- Excellent communication, organisational and time management skills
- Ability to inspire, engage and work collaboratively across many functions
- Fully Multiskilled Engineer (Electrical and Mechanical)
- Minimum of 17th/18th Edition Wiring Regulations
- HNC Qualifications in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- Food Hygiene and IOSH/NEBOSH qualifications
- HACCP level 2
- Experience of food manufacturing systems and process in a continues production environment.
- Confident, demonstrated leadership skills and ability to influence others.
Closing date for applications 12th August 2025