Reliability Engineer

Full-time · Permanent or Contract

Why This Role

• Protected time, for real — 70% of your week is reliability work, not reactive cover or CMMS admin, and it's enforced without exception.
• Influence, not just input — you own the reliability strategy and KPIs, and report progress directly to the Maintenance Manager and plant leadership.
• Scope to lead — FMEA and RCFA on the plant's most critical assets, with the authority to prioritise and eliminate failure modes at the root.
• A team to build — mentor and develop the Reliability Technician and Lubrication Technician, growing site capability over time.
• A national network — collaborate with OEMs, contractors, and the group's national Maintenance & Reliability team to share and shape best practice across sites.
• Work that compounds — as repeat failures fall and the bad actor list shrinks, your impact on plant performance grows year over year.

What You'll Own

• The site reliability strategy and PM optimisation plan — built on failure data and asset criticality, cutting tasks that don't actually prevent failure.
• FMEA on critical assets (kilns, mills, fans, ID fans) to identify, prioritise, and design out failure modes.
• RCFA on every significant or repetitive failure, driving corrective actions through to completion.
• The condition-based inspection programme — NDT, MPI, thickness and wear measurement — setting scope, frequency, and acceptance criteria, and turning findings into corrective or capital plans.
• MTBF improvement on bad actor assets, with 6–12 month targets and monthly reporting to the Maintenance Manager.
• The reliability KPI set — RF and MTBF trend, bad actor list reduction, PM effectiveness, and cost avoidance — reviewed monthly with plant leadership.
• The critical spares strategy, backed by gap analysis and investment cases justified by failure consequence and lead time.
• A forward reliability improvement roadmap, prioritised by asset criticality and failure trend.