Senior Maintenance Strategy and Reliability Engineer

Tatton Recruitment; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and Development

Career progression

Job summary

Certain Advantage is seeking a Senior Maintenance Strategy and Reliability Engineer in the Southwest region, with a permanent, hybrid role based near Plymouth. You will lead a small, experienced team and drive maintenance strategies, reliability improvements, and lifecycle support across assets.

The ideal candidate has a degree in engineering and proven experience in maintenance, reliability, asset management, and data-driven decision making.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Asset Management or a related discipline.
• Significant exposure to maintenance engineering, reliability engineering, asset management or supportability engineering.
• Developing maintenance strategies for complex engineering assets.
• Conducting reliability analyses, maintenance optimisation studies and failure investigations.
• Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management principles.
• Analysing maintenance, operational and performance data.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Strategy
• Reliability Engineering
• Asset Management & Lifecycle Support
• Governance & Assurance
• Stakeholder Engagement

Skills

Maintenance engineering

Reliability engineering

Asset management

RCM / FMECA

Data analysis

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related

Tools

CMMS

EAM

Job description

Senior Maintenance Strategy and Reliability Engineer

Certain Advantage is hiring for a Senior Maintenance Strategy and Reliability Engineer based in the Southwest area. This role is on a permanent basis and is hybrid-based.

The Company

We’re working with an engineering company specialising in solving complex engineering challenges across industries—from Power Generation, Rail and more.

The Role

This role is for a Senior Maintenance Strategy and Reliability Engineer—someone ambitious and ready to make an impact. You’ll be results-oriented and driven to succeed.

You’ll be leading a small, experienced, and collaborative team, and be responsible for:

• Maintenance Strategy
• Reliability Engineering
• Asset Management & Lifecycle Support
• Governance & Assurance
• Stakeholder Engagement

The Individual

We’re looking for people who can show:

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Asset Management or a related discipline.
• Significant exposure to maintenance engineering, reliability engineering, asset management or supportability engineering.
• Developing maintenance strategies for complex engineering assets.
• Conducting reliability analyses, maintenance optimisation studies and failure investigations.
• Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management principles.
• Analysing maintenance, operational and performance data.

Desirable Attributes

• Professional registration or working towards EngTech, IEng or CEng.
• Experience within infrastructure, maritime, defence, nuclear, utilities, transport, energy, manufacturing or other asset-intensive industries.
• Experience using Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
• Experience supporting major asset programmes or complex operational environments.
• Knowledge of ISO 55000 Asset Management principles.
• Experience applying reliability engineering methodologies such as RCM, FMECA and Root Cause Analysis.

The Benefits

• Salary circa £55 000 per annum
• Training and Development
• Career progression