Job Description

This is what you'll actually do!
As a Reliability Manager, you will champion a proactive reliability culture--focused on zero harm, zero breakdowns, and continuous improvement--while motivating, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams and contractors. You will promote strong Safety, Quality, Environmental, and Food Safety standards across all engineering activities and act as the subject matter expert for Maintenance and Reliability practices.
Day to day, you will guide teams through RCA, OEE analysis, and FMEAs; develop and implement preventative, predictive, and condition-based maintenance strategies; and work closely with planning teams to align maintenance activities with production needs. You will prioritise and approve critical work, maintain accurate asset data in the CMMS, and lead structured problem-solving to eliminate recurring failures.
You will also drive improvement initiatives to reduce breakdowns and costs while increasing performance, ensuring lessons learned are captured and embedded into best practice. In addition, you will coach and mentor engineers, manage skill development and succession planning, and support training in maintenance systems, continuous improvement tools, and engineering safety standards.
Ideally this is you!

• Experience leading Maintenance/Reliability within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of asset reliability principles, including TPM, RCM, RCA, OEE, and predictive maintenance.
• Skilled in using CMMS, maintenance scheduling tools and reliability analytics.
• Proven ability to lead engineering teams, contractors, and drive cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management, budget control and CapEx planning.
• Excellent communication, analytical and organisational skills.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret downtime data, maintenance trends and root cause analysis.
• Experience using KPIs to measure maintenance performance and implement improvements.
• Strong knowledge of Health & Safety, permit-to-work, Food Safety and regulatory requirements.
• Competent in Microsoft Office and maintenance systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence, challenge and drive best practice among engineering teams.

Skills Required