Reliability Improvement Engineer

Description

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:

The Reliability Engineer - Site Services & Utilities is responsible for ensuring the safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operation of all site utility and infrastructure assets. The role focuses on asset reliability, lifecycle management, statutory compliance, performance improvement and risk reduction across critical site services that underpin food safety and production continuity. This is a proactive engineering role, driving reliability strategy rather than reactive maintenance.

Develop and own reliability strategies for site utilities including boilers, steam systems, hotwells, water treatment, compressed air, refrigeration/HVAC, electrical distribution and effluent systemsLead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actionsEnsure utilities and pressure systems comply with PSSR, EAWR, PUWER, COSHH and site standardsSupport risk assessments, method statements and management of change (MoC) for utilities systemsDrive improvements in energy, water, steam and compressed-air efficiencyLead and support utilities-related CAPEX and improvement projectsOwn utilities reliability KPIs (availability, downtime, backlog, defects, compliance)Maintain asset registers, criticality assessments and lifecycle plansAct as the technical authority for site services and utilities

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 needsExperience 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) environmentExperience 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 reliabilityKeeps up-to-speed with industry advances in the tools and techniques relating to reliability approachesExperience mentoring junior members of a team and influencing/promoting across the engineering and manufacturing organisation the link between reliability and business performanceHas workshop facilitation skills to extract knowledge on failure modes/root causes from engineering/manufacturing personnel and turn this into useful information for reliabilityCapacity to develop tools and conduct analysis in in ExcelHas a working knowledge of best-in-class condition based monitoring techniquesHas experience working with computers - specifically a working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)Has experience with defining and deploying CMMS across multiple sitesEssential

Degree / HNC / HND in Mechanical, Electrical or Reliability EngineeringProven experience in utilities or site services within manufacturing (food preferred)Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles (RCM, FMEA, RCA)Knowledge of UK engineering legislation and complianceData-driven mindset with strong analytical skillsAbility to influence and lead without direct authorityDesirable

Experience in food or regulated manufacturing environmentsFamiliarity with CMMS, condition monitoring and energy management systemsExposure to insurance inspections and statutory compliance frameworksChartered or working towards professional registrationWe'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 benefitsHolidaysCompetitive matched pension contributionsCompany share save schemeGreencore QualificationsExclusive Greencore employee discount platformAccess to a full Wellbeing Centre platformThroughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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