Reliability Engineer

Jacobs Douwe Egberts; Johor Bahru; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

JDE Peet’s is seeking a Reliability Engineer to optimize plant equipment and drive a dynamic preventive maintenance program across the production area. You will align PM strategy with business needs, ensuring safety, quality, and cost control while improving equipment reliability.

The role requires leading maintenance activities, coordinating with internal and external teams, and driving continuous improvement initiatives using MOS and CMMS tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field.
• Experience in manufacturing maintenance leadership preferred.
• Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead preventive maintenance planning and execution.
• Review spare parts inventory and ensure availability.
• Develop action plans for breakdowns and improvements.
• Keep maintenance plans dynamic to real plant conditions.
• Define standards and procedures.
• Coordinate maintenance with internal and external teams.
• Control costs related to maintenance.

Skills

Preventive maintenance

Root cause analysis

Safety compliance

Team leadership

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

MOS

CMMS

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

JDE Peet’s*- now part of Keurig Dr Pepper – is the world’s leading pure-play coffee company, with a presence in more than 100 markets.

Guided by our ‘Reignite the Amazing’strategy, we are focused on brand-led growth across three big bets: Peet’s, L’OR, and our 10 strategically selected local icons, which includes Super,Moccona, Old Town. In 2025, JDE Peet’s generated total sales of EUR 9.9 billion and employed a global workforce of more than 21,000 employees.

It’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. At JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE), we’ve made it our mission to find out. Our people have been raising the bar since day one, thinking fast and acting even faster to make an impact that’s felt around the world. JDE is the home to some of the most well-known coffee brands in the world.

For more than 265 years, we have been inspired by the belief. Today our coffee & tea portfolio is available in over 140 countries around the world through iconic household names including: Jacobs, Tassimo, Moccona, Senseo, L’OR, Douwe Egberts, Super, Kenco, Pilao & Gevalia etc.

Discover more about our journey to deliver a coffee for every cup and a brand for every heart at www.jdepeets.com

The Reliability Engineer deliver result by optimizing plant equipment and installation based on Demarcation Area through deployment of dynamic Preventive Maintenance (PM) plan and related initiative/improvement. This role is required to align PM strategy with Plant & Combined Business Needs (CBN) without compromising delivery of results and standards including;

• Leading Preventive Maintenance Plan & Execution.
• Review & Assuring Required Spare parts & Inventory Level.
• Develop Action Plan (Mitigation, Corrective & Preventive) for breakdown/issue.
• Review Preventive Maintenance plan to be dynamic and suit to real condition of plant.
• Defining standards & procedure.
• Coordinating Maintenance Program within internal & external team.
• Cost efficient & control.

Safety Health Environment:

• Drives a Safety Health and Environment culture and role model behaviours. Responsible for Safety Health and Environment requirements and legislation implementation and complies to legal and corporate standards & policies. Executes actions with speed.
• Escalates and implement solutions to impact risks in ergonomics and working conditions.
• Ensures that all maintenance required to ensure the Safety, Health and Environment aspects of equipment are known and included in the preventative maintenance system, standards.
• Ensures that all safety instructions, required Lock Out Tag Out Test Out (LOTOTO) and permit to work (PTW) and equipment comply to required safety measures (e.g. Safety switches, LOTOTO points).
• Checks if work permit is adequate and execution is according to plan; takes care of technician's/contractor's and third-party employees' safety.
• Ensure all technical plans of equipment including those related to energy are updated and available
• Immediately corrects any substandard condition or unsafe behaviours.
• Reports unsafe situations and ensures adequate corrective measures are being taken on time.
• Stops work when safety is at risk. Escalates with enough anticipation what capacity and support are required to get the job done safely.
• Reviews Safety performance as part of the daily Operations Performance meetings Structure- OPS.
• Leads and or participates in incident/accident investigations and Risk Assessments.

Quality:

• Drives a Quality culture and role model behaviours. Ensure all maintenance interventions guarantee Quality requirements and legislation implementation and compliance to legal and corporate standards & policies.
• Responsible for integrating Quality tasks such as parts replacement, calibrations, inspections, cleaning etc. into the preventative maintenance plan.
• Ensures that maintenance intervention does not generate non-conformities.

Leadership:

• Drives manufacturing excellence within the Maintenance / Production team through engaged leadership and coaching.
• Develops and coaches the associates in the team to close the competency gap.
• Develops technical standards used to close the competency gap.

Delivery & Cost:

• Takes full responsibility to reduction of technical related losses and achieve performance targets.
• Identifies and executes improvement actions generated from data analysis related to equipment performance.
• Owns and leads breakdown elimination system, maintenance planning and scheduling system.
• Responsible for implementing the preventative maintenance plan on time in full ensuring the optimal functioning of equipment.
• Responsible for reviewing effectiveness of maintenance interventions.
• Ensure effective coordination between production, planning and maintenance.
• Owns, manages and optimizes Maintenance and Repair costs.
• Conceptualizes, proposes and implements diagnostic, structural and or technical improvements.
• Responsible for the successful completion of subcontracted work carried out in the area/line of responsibility.
• Responsible for the management and optimization of spare parts stock with store team.
• Analyzes of spare part rotations and ensures a 'Just in time' replenishment system.
• Optimizes the cost for spare parts balancing availability, cost and quality.
• Responsible for the update and availability of technical information such as manuals, list of potential suppliers and documentation.
• Ensures availability and understanding of technical plans of new machines. Provide inputs into technical requirements for new machines, inclusively improvements made to have higher reliability better maintenance cost.
• Implements Manufacturing Operating System - MOS roll out plan with a hands-on approach through using and owning the relevant tools.
• Supports implementation of Autonomous Maintenance in line with Autonomous Maintenance plan within the shift through adherence to Autonomous Maintenance systems such as Cleaning Inspecting and Lubricating - CIL, Defect Handling - DH and Centerline - CL and performing Autonomous Maintenance audits and closing actions identified on time in full.
• Creates and/or updates standards.
• Update relevant information, tracking and reporting systems.

Are you bursting with fresh ideas and a hunger for learning? We want you!

Here’s what we're looking for:

Education:

• University Degree (Bachelor) or higher in Engineering or other related field.

Experience:

Must have:

• 3-5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment (strong preference in FMCG) including Engineering roles.
• Min of 2 years in a people leadership with strong focus on development of teams.

Nice to have:

• Experience of change management within the plant to improve organization performance, in safety and quality as well.
• Project management experience including leading a project.
• Understanding of budgeting and financial processes.
• Profound knowledge and experience of Operational Excellence methodologies like TPM (prerequisite). Lean and 6 Sigma.

Additional Information

Are you ready to Unleash Your Possibility within JDE Peet's?

Would you like to join at a Coffee & Tea company that values your future success and prioritizes your passion for positive change?

JDE Peet’s - now part of Keurig Dr Pepper – is the world’s leading pure-play coffee company, with a presence in more than 100 markets. Guided by our ‘Reignite the Amazing’ strategy, we are focused on brand-led growth across three big bets: Peet’s, L’OR, and our 10 strategically selected local icons led by Jacobs.