Reliability Engineer

I. Purpose of the Role

• Working with the departmental management team to ensure all the companies and legislative operating standards and policies are adhered to.
• To evaluate the efficiency of all activities in the Maintenance department and sites assets and adjust accordingly.
• Endeavour to achieve the companies KPI’s and work to both the companies and legislative operating standards and policies to achieve.
• Develop and maintain sites job planned works library and action plans.
• Lead and coach FMEA to drive our root cause findings culture and ensure all learning events are implemented and communicated accordingly.

II. Roles and Responsibilities

• Work consistently within the remit of all company policies and procedures (health and Safety, Quality, HR & Environmental) & manage members of the shift and day Maintenance team in doing the same.
• Ensure full compliance by all shift and day team members to the Company’s Quality/Environment standards (ISO 1401 etc.) and any legislation applicable to our operations (HSE, waste, COSHH etc.).
• Consistently demonstrate a positive leadership example to others whilst maintaining a professional and personable approach with an open‑door policy.
• Monitor and develop the performance of processes within the work area and ensure all shift and day team members are operating in full compliance with agreed KPI’s (H & S, Quality, Delivery, Cost etc.).
• Support the maintenance foreman in the development of all personnel within the Maintenance department, including identifying and organising training requirements and auditing training records.
• Actively promote, support and engage in continuous improvement projects and ensure the sustainability of these activities through promotion of best operational practices.
• Continue promotion of best practice H & S by co‑ordinating audits, SOP reviews, quality and accident/incident investigation.
• Administer and audit sites permit system to ensure we are working safely and in accordance with site regulations.
• Facilitate optimisation of waiting on maintenance (WOM) time of planned and unplanned activities.
• Ensure all planned maintenance activities are current, suitable and sufficient; plan shutdowns and prioritise jobs and workload for both the maintenance team and contractors.
• Build and maintain a job plan library for high‑frequency jobs in Agility PM (to ensure safe and efficient execution of all maintenance jobs).
• Update job plans to ensure necessary changes and/or improvements are incorporated.
• Aggregate similar jobs into periodic blocks to maximise efficiency and use of available resources.
• Analyse maintenance data.
• Lead root cause failure analysis meetings.
• Coordinate implementation of defined actions.
• Coordinate equipment FMEA analyses.
• Facilitate implementation of defined FMEA actions.
• Define and implement an optimised maintenance plan per equipment type.
• Maintenance plans include lubrication, preventive, predictive and failure‑finding tasks.
• Support the maintenance foreman in coaching the maintenance team to maintain Root Cause Analysis.
• Actively provide reliability input to the design and projects engineer to promote best practices and deliver best‑in‑class solutions using the equipment modification request (EMR) procedure.
• Provide troubleshooting support to operating units on equipment reliability including emergency work reviews.
• Support spare parts stores provider to optimise spare parts stocks (define strategic and critical parts).
• Follow‑up spare/process parts trials delivered by alternative suppliers, qualities and designs.
• Create purchase orders for necessary materials, spare parts, components, tools or external services.
• From time to time may be required to work at other Bridon sites.

III. Qualifications

• Educated to HNC level or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering.
• Proficient with continuous improvement tools, techniques and methodologies.
• Good understanding of HSE and Quality policies and their practical application.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate and influence at all levels inside and outside the organisation.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills.
• Proven experience in a supervisory role, demonstrating personal success in leadership.
• Collaborative working across different departments.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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