Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer - Guinness Beer Packaging Site

Runcorn, England

Full Time - Permanent

Shift Pattern- 35 hours, Monday to Friday 7am - 3pm

Closing Date- 02nd April

What's the site like?

• 18 Acre site running a 24/7 Operation with 4 rotational crews.
• It has 2 Bottling, 2 Canning lines and 1 Kegging production line.
• There are 90+ SKUs with 16 different Beer/Liquid types, producing an average of 23 million cases per annum.
• We operate Guinness packaging facilities at Marshalls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Runcorn, in Northwest England, producing canned, bottled and kegged product for Ireland, UK and export markets. Significant investment is underway at both locations.

About the Role

As the Manufacturing Reliability Engineer at Diageo's Beer Packaging Site, you will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of efficient and effective maintenance, repair, problem solving and improvement of assets and their availability across our site. You will accurately record and report the outcomes of any maintenance problems via our maintenance systems to facilitate the sharing of standard processes.

Key Responsibilities include;

• You will play a vital role to the achievement and improvement of Asset Care key performance matrix through the delivery of efficient and effective maintenance, repair, problem solving and improvement of assets and their availability across site.
• You will review and contribute to the Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) studies on your lines, ensuring criticality assessments are up to date and ensuring failure modes are addressed in our maintenance plans.
• You will review and improve our maintenance strategy, ensuring we are a proactive and condition-based engineering department as opposed to preventative and reactive.
• You will review major breakdowns ensuring these are root caused, linking these back into the maintenance plan to identify gaps.
• You will use data analysis to scope and deliver 'improvement projects' which support compliance, waste, cost and performance reliability through continuous improvement in all lines integrating with key site leader objectives.
• You will participate with information sharing and team working, supporting any activities undertaken within the company including providing technical knowledge, One point lessons (OPLs) and collaborating with Original equipment manufacturer (OEMs) to drive effective solutions.
• You will be responsible for supporting capital work, including installation, commissioning and testing within area as required and will be responsible for feeding into early equipment management.
• You will proactively work with Operators, Engineers and team leaders to play a pivotal role in situational problem solving. Resolving problems and finding solutions via root-cause problem solving (RCPS), reducing repeat failures.
• You will engage in Daily Tier meetings and performance-based consolations to raise and address persistent performance issues
• You will be key in anticipating issues and be more proactive in approach, leading active solution driven initiatives with the wider engineering team
• You may also give technical support during major breakdowns and during machine set ups and overhauls

We would love to hear from you if you;

• Experience working in FMCG/manufacturing or similar environment.
• Familiar with Reliability maintenance best practices.
• Work well in a team as well as the ability to make effective decisions and thrive in situations where they can tackle problems.
• Have excellent communication and influencing skills and are able to push forward your own ideas about improvements to current approaches and appraise new opportunities.
• Have the strive to make a positive difference to manufacturing excellence.
• Are a time served mechanical or electrical engineer or technician with an understanding of the opposite core skill and have relevant qualifications and proven knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and environmental risk principles.

Working with Us

Join us and you can also expect a highly driven and flexible rewards and benefits package including:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Private medical insurance
• Product allowance
• Access to discounts at 1000's of retailers
• Contributory pension of up to 14% by Diageo
• Company freeshares upon joining
• Sharesave/sharepurchase/sharematch options
• Cycle to work scheme
• Annual bonus of circa 15% of your base salary (dependent on performance)
• 34 days annual leave per annum including bank holidays
• 6 months paid parental leave to all employees

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and listened to, is a crucial part of this.

Join us, and you'll be part of an organisation that embraces diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you.

You'll be part of - and help build - an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. And you'll help us champion inclusion and diversity across our entire business: with our employees, our suppliers, across our brands, and within the communities in which we operate.

Feel encouraged? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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