Reliability Engineer

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About the Role

We’re currently recruiting for a Reliability Engineer at our site in Hinkley The primary focus of this role is to manage assets through their entire lifecycle supporting safety, performance, risk consequence management and total cost of ownership. Our Engineering function is key to the continued success and improvement of our site operations as we strive to consistently deliver a world-class service in a fast-paced environment to delight our customers and grow our business.

As our Reliability Engineer, your role will be to define equipment criticality in relation to safety, productivity as well as the selection of appropriate asset care strategies and tactics. You will develop and manage the programme of equipment, inspections and repairs whilst effectively supporting the engineering team. Working closely with the Engineering Team to achieve targets in safety, production output, quality and cost. You will also work closely with the Engineering Planner/Scheduler you will identify and rectify issues whilst improving and maintaining high standards within Environment, Health & Safety, Housekeeping, Performance, Waste, Communication and Continuous Improvement.

You will be key in supporting the Engineering Manager to deliver core key objectives and operational performance targets.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Management of the Asset ’life-cycle’ care program including routine preventive, predictive, corrective and breakdown engineering work and reporting the effectiveness of the team
• Identify, investigate and resolve any Reliability Engineering issues that arise
• Facilitating appropriate Root Cause Analysis studies to develop detailed improvement action plans
• Managing risk to accepted levels supporting the organisation’s strategic objectives in the areas of environmental, health and safety, asset availability, quality and productivity
• Development and review of the maintenance program and systems by developing implementation of performance measures metrics for and tracking KPI’s
• Developing equipment strategies and tactics based on OEM recommendations supported by RCM based methodology and performance feedback
• Monitoring the effectiveness of preventative/predictive maintenance tactics in relation to increasing asset availability and reducing downtime
• Presentation and prioritisation of loss based on performance data directing focused effort on the most critical opportunities.
• Continually challenging and developing our process flows and methods of operating

About You

• You have experience as a Reliability Engineer; defining preventative, predictive, corrective and breakdown engineering
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to conduct Root Cause Analysis on Assets
• Experience of implementing Continuous Improvement (CI) manufacturing practices
• Experience of using SAP and Microsoft Tools would be highly beneficial
• A Manufacturing background would be preferable but not essential

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• 25 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays
• Employee Discounts Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP Support
• Long Service Award