Reliability Improvement Engineer

Job Description

As the Reliability Improvement Engineer, your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Manage the equipment criticality assessment of the asset footprint in terms of business risk (HSE, food safety, productivity loss etc.) to prioritise areas for improvement
• Provide data analysis for repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations to inform the development of structured, visible corrective action plans
• Facilitate reliability workshops to define / review the preventive maintenance (PM) plan systematically and periodically for all assets to ensure all relevant colleagues understand PM plans and standard operating procedures and incorporate them into theirdaily activities
• Analyse the life-cycle cost of maintaining the asset portfolio versus the cost of repair and create an appropriate plan to prioritise efforts
• Identify and maintain a risk register for key assets to feed the need for repair or replacement projects to be included into the annual Capital Plan
• Develop detailed criticality analysis on spares, forecasting spares requirements and adapting stock levels to optimise the balance between the MTTR (the effect of a failure) and the cost of spare parts
• Act as a guide and trainer to other members of the maintenance team to support the uptake and adoption of the use of CMMS across the facility
• Ensure that there is effective utilisation of predictive/condition based methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems

Why GreencoreYou may not have heard of us, but we’re sure you’ve tried our products. We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing 13,000 colleagues across 16 world-class manufacturing sites and 18 distribution depots across the UK. Wesupplyall the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals.Our site in Kiveton employs over 600 and is the largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals and soups. What we’re looking for As a Reliability Improvement Engineer, you will have:

• Knowledge and experience of full asset care strategies and processes (including maintenance workflow, reliability, failure reduction, FMEA, TPM etc) and ability to define strategy based on business needs
• Experience and knowledge of reliability performance indicators, OEE, MTBF, MTTR, failures rates etc.
• Experience and knowledge of leading manufacturing excellence preferably in an FMCG environment
• Experience with effective and successful problem solving – demonstrates the ability to think through problems, undertake appropriate analysis and take effective actions in relation to safety and reliability
• Keeps up-to-speed with industry advances in the tools and techniques relating to reliability approaches
• Experience mentoring junior members of a team and influencing/promoting across the engineering and manufacturing organisation the link between reliability and business performance
• Has workshop facilitation skills to extract knowledge on failure modes/root causes from engineering/manufacturing personnel and turn this into useful information for reliability
• Capacity to develop tools and conduct analysis in in Excel
• Has a working knowledge of best-in-class condition based monitoring techniques
• Has experience working with computers – specifically a working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Has experience with defining and deploying CMMS across multiple sites

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.