Reliability Engineer - Manufacturing

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Plc in Edmonton is seeking a Reliability Engineer - Manufacturing to analyse and improve equipment performance, reporting to Maintenance Manager, and working with the Asset Care Planner and Production Manager in a 24/7 factory.

You will lead maintenance improvement sessions, shift from check-and-inspect to measure-and-compare, manage budgets, coach technicians, and ensure safety, quality and asset care standards are met through reliable practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in machinery maintenance within manufacturing.
• Ability to develop asset care strategies for production equipment.
• Familiarity with SAP PM and line information systems.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and execute maintenance overhauls to hit quality and performance targets.
• Lead reliability improvements by using failure data and line teams.
• Achieve safety and environmental standards with contractors.
• Manage annual Maintenance & Repair budget.
• Coach technicians to maximise performance.
• Support investment projects and new initiatives.
• Maintain spare parts warehouse with safe stock levels.

Skills

Reliability concepts

Reliability tools

Planning & scheduling

Machinery maintenance

Asset care strategies

SAP PM

Education

NVQ Level 3 Mechanical/Electrical qualifications or equivalent

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Reliability Engineer - Manufacturing - Edmonton

Contract - Permanent

Closing date - 20th November 2026

What to expect

Reporting into the Maintenance Manager, the Reliability Engineer is a pivotal Site role and in partnership with your Asset Care Planner (ACP) you need to analyse and improve the equipment performance. Working in close partnership with the Production Manager it is graded as a Band 100 (professional banding) to reflect the level of responsibility, flexibility of hours and approach, plus the commitment required to deliver a demanding role in a Factory that operates 24/7.

Key to the role are a number of core elements which you will be expected to master :-

• The site currently operates its maintenance on 6 year life plans with modular and major overhauls. Your role with the ACP is the planning, scheduling and execution of these plans to ensure that line start up after overhaul, hits its targets for quality, safety and performance all within your budget (which you will have complete control of for your area).
• Reliability focuses on maintenance effectiveness and you will be expected to move the maintenance plans away from a check and inspect mentality to that of a measure and compare to a standard. To do this you will be expected to be able to organise maintenance improvement sessions using failure data, OEM’s and line teams to help design the best possible maintenance for your assets in order of criticality and using best practice reliability tools and techniques
• Act as a Safety role model and ensure all Quality, Environment, Health and Safety standards are fulfilled by CCEP and contractors
• Manage the annual Maintenance & Repair budget.
• Lead coach and develop RCA’s. Measure the effectiveness of the countermeasures to ensure no re-occurrence.
• Support the Engineering function on the development of investment projects and new initiatives.
• Lead, develop and coach the Technicians to ensure they maximise their individual and team performance.
• Manage the spare parts warehouse in an efficient way (high rotation, right safety stocks, handle write-offs, search of cheaper and reliable spares, etc)
• Support the PM with analysis of performances losses and asset care KPI’s.

Skills & Essentials

• NVQ Level 3 Mechanical/Electrical qualifications or equivalent.
• Understand the difference between reliability and maintenance
• Can demonstrate the implementation of reliability tools and techniques
• Can demonstrate effective planning and organisational skills required for major and minor overhauls
• Experience of machinery maintenance within manufacturing, production environment preferably within food or beverage processing environments with volatile demand
• Have responsibility for developing asset care strategies for production equipment
• Have worked with SAP PM and line information systems