Reliability Improvement Engineer

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Here at Leeds we make just over 40% of all UK frozen Yorkshire puddings; making us one of the UK's largest suppliers of frozen Yorkshire puddings to Asda, Morrisons & Tesco to name a few! .

What you'll be doing

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 their daily 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 computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) across the facility

Ensure that there is effective utilisation of predictive/condition based methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems

What we're looking for

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, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), mean time between failure (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), failures rates etc.

Experience and knowledge of leading manufacturing excellence preferably in an fast moving consumer goods (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

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

What you'll get in return

Competitive salary and job-related benefits

Holidays

Competitive matched pension contributions

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.

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