Maintenance Lead (Food Environment)

Job Title: Reliability Lead
Location: Scarborough
Working Hours: 07:30am to 4:30pm - Monday - Friday, Total Working 40 hours

Main duties & responsibilities:

Our client is seeking a Reliability Lead to join them on a permanent basis. So if you are looking for the next step in your career and feel this opportunity is for you, apply today. If successful you will be joining one of the nation's biggest names in the frozen foods industry established over 60 years ago. You will be drive reliability improvement programs across plant and use accurate data analysis to work closely with their plant teams to ensure they reduce any food safety or maintenance related incidents.

You'll drive onsite maintenance improvement to reduce engineering related downtime, increase the reliability of our clients assets and ensure optimal maintenance life cycle cost. You will also conduct root cause analysis, delivering recommendations and solutions for our client to implement. You will have a small team of technicians reporting directly to you. The technicians are responsible for the collection of vibration data, lubrication routes and ad-hock engineering services

Responsibilities

• Analysing equipment failure data to identify patterns and trends.
• Conducting root cause analysis to determine the underlying cause of problems.
• Developing and implementing new maintenance procedures.
• Designing and implementing new procedures for monitoring and testing equipment.
• Finding new technologies and processes that can improve equipment performance and reliability.
• Developing and implementing training programs for employees.
• Collaborating with other departments across site to ensure that reliability is integrated into all aspects of the organisation.
• Work safely, with regard for your duty of care to yourself and to others who may be affected by your work. Always adhere to company policies and procedures
• Improve uptime and lower maintenance cost by maintaining assets optimally in the maintenance life cycle.
• Identification of the current pain points and developing improvement strategies.
• Work closely with the Shift Operations team to ensure plant issues are identified, understood and appropriate actions are planned, prioritised and executed in a timely manner.
• Build and maintain an in-depth understanding of the manufacturing plant, processes and priorities, key bottlenecks and opportunity areas to aid the prioritisation of work.
• Leverage the skills of the total site team, making effective use of support functions and accessing expertise in other shift teams to generate total site solutions to issues.
• Work closely with key OEM's, contractors and specialists to drive improvements and ensure services meet site requirements.

What we will expect you to bring.

• HNC or equivalent in appropriate mechanical/electrical discipline
• Previous FMCG/Food industry experience.
• SAP and Power BI knowledge
• HACCP - Desirable
• Advanced Food Hygiene

To be considered for this role you must:
Have UK employment experience working within a Food/Beverage environment as an engineer
Have no restrictions or be on a visa which is due to expire before 2031
Have a clean UK driving licence
Be able to pass a DBS Check