Reliability Lead

Adecco; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK is looking for a Reliability Lead to drive improvement programs in a prominent food manufacturing plant. The ideal candidate will focus on reliability enhancement, root cause analysis, and collaborate with various departments. Essential qualifications include a mechanical or electrical HNC and experience in the food industry. A clean UK driving license and the ability to pass a DBS check are required.

Qualifications

• HNC or equivalent in appropriate mechanical/electrical discipline is essential.
• Previous FMCG experience, particularly in the Food industry, will be an advantage.
• Results driven and self-managing required.

Responsibilities

• Drive reliability improvement programs across the plant.
• Conduct root cause analysis and deliver recommendations.
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure reliability integration.

Skills

Data analysis

Root cause analysis

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

HNC or equivalent in mechanical/electrical discipline

Tools

Power BI

SAP

Job description

Job Title: Reliability Lead
Location: Scarborough
Salary: Negotiable + Car Allowance
Working Hours/Shift Pattern: 07:30am to 4:30pm - Monday - Friday, Total Working 40 hours

Main duties & responsibilities:

As a Reliability Lead for you will be dedicated to one of our clients who's well established in the industry of frozen foods and are well known as the number one household brand for over 60 years. You will be tasked to drive reliability improvement programs across plant. They use accurate data analysis (from Power Bi and SAP) to work closely with their plant teams to ensure they reduce any food safety or maintenance related incidents - as they say, prevention is better than the cure!

To succeed you will need the desire to get to know the inner workings and immerse yourself within the environment to utilize in performance of the role. The complexity levels of the problems on site can also vary highly, due to the larger size and capacity on site. You will report directly to the Condition Monitoring Technician and Lubrication Technicians. You'll drive onsite maintenance improvement to reduce engineering related downtime, increase the reliability of our clients assets and ensure optimal maintenance lifecycle cost. You will also conduct root cause analysis, delivering recommendations and solutions for our client to implement. You will have a small team of technicians reporting directly to you. The technicians are responsible for the collection of vibration data, lubrication routes and ad-hock engineering services

• Analysing equipment failure data to identify patterns and trends.
• Conducting root cause analysis to determine the underlying cause of problems.
• Developing and implementing new maintenance procedures.
• Designing and implementing new procedures for monitoring and testing equipment.
• Finding new technologies and processes that can improve equipment performance and reliability.
• Developing and implementing training programs for employees.
• Collaborating with other departments across site to ensure that reliability is integrated into all aspects of the organisation.
• Work safely, with regard for your duty of care to yourself and to others who may be affected by your work. Always adhere to company policies and procedures
• Improve uptime and lower maintenance cost by maintaining assets optimally in the maintenance life cycle.
• Identification of the current pain points and developing improvement strategies.
• Work closely with the Shift Operations team to ensure plant issues are identified, understood and appropriate actions are planned, prioritised and executed in a timely manner.
• Build and maintain an in-depth understanding of the manufacturing plant, processes and priorities, key bottlenecks and opportunity areas to aid the prioritisation of work.
• Leverage the skills of the total site team, making effective use of support functions and accessing expertise in other shift teams to generate total site solutions to issues.
• Work closely with key OEM's, contractors and specialists to drive improvements and ensure services meet site requirements.

Essential skills / experience / qualifications:

• HNC or equivalent in appropriate mechanical/electrical discipline - Essential
• IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH General Certificate - Advantageous/ Training can be given
• Previous FMCG experience, particularly in the Food industry, will be an advantage.
• SAP and Power BI knowledge would be an advantage but not essential.
• Results driven and self-managing.
• Wide ranging knowledge of engineering practical fundamentals.
• Knowledge of CMMS review and improvement - Essential
• HACCP - Desirable
• Advanced Food Hygiene - Desirable

To be considered for this role you must:
Have UK employment experience working in this type of position
Have no restrictions or be on a visa which is due to expire before 2031
Have a clean UK driving licence
Be able to pass a DBS check