Reliability Lead

Role: Reliability Lead

Location: Wombourne

ABOUT THE JOB.

As a Reliability Lead for ERIKS you will be dedicated to one of our clients who’s well established in the industry of frozen foods and are well known as the number one household brand for over 60 years. You will be tasked to drive reliability improvement programs across plant. They use accurate data analysis (from Power Bi and SAP) to work closely with their plant teams to ensure they reduce any food safety or maintenance related incidents – as they say, prevention is better than the cure!

You’ll drive onsite maintenance improvement to reduce engineering related downtime, increase the reliability of our clients assets and ensure optimal maintenance lifecycle cost. You will also conduct root cause analysis, delivering recommendations and solutions for our client to implement.

About the role:

• 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.

Hours of work:

Working Hours - 07:30am to 4:30pm - Mon- Fri

Lunch Break - 1 Hour

Total Working Hours - 40 hours

About You:

• HNC or equivalent in appropriate mechanical/electrical discipline – Essential 

• IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH General Certificate – Advantageous/ Training can be given 

• Previous FMCG experience, particularly in the Food industry, will be an advantage.

• SAP and Poer BI knowledge would be an advantage but not essential.

• Results driven and self-managing.

• Wide ranging knowledge of engineering practical fundamentals.

• Knowledge of CMMS review and improvement - Essential

• HACCP - Desirable

• Advanced Food Hygiene - Desirable

Your offer:

And if that wasn't enough to pique your interest, we also offer a very competitive salary and a range of benefits including:

• 25 days plus bank holidays annual holiday entitlement

• Ability to purchase an additional 5 days holiday subject to scheme rules

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Life Assurance

• Up to 1 day’s paid leave to concentrate on your wellbeing

• A full integrated Employee Assistance Programme including a 24/7 helpline for emotional and practical support, as well as financial and legal support including:

• Unlimited mental health support from qualified mental healthcare professionals

• 24/7, unlimited remote GP appointments – so you can get fast access to a doctor at a time convenient to you

• Six 1-2-1 nutritional video consultations per year

• Six 1-2-1 digitally delivered personal training sessions per year

• 360 Wellbeing Score — take just four short assessments to get your score and unlock six 1-2-1 lifestyle coaching sessions per year

• Physiotherapy — eight sessions a year shared between you and your partner

• Medical second opinions

• Savings and discounts for savings on weekly costs

• On-demand wellness content, plus our Wellbeing Calendar, which is packed with podcasts, articles, webinars and more to help manage your wellbeing

• Company Sick Pay from day 1

• Group Income Protection – after a period of sickness absence

• Long service recognition

• Free unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning

• Free ERIKS Branded workwear

• Free Eye tests

• Company Car

• ERIKS are an equal opportunities employer

We’re ERIKS – a leading Specialised Industrial Service Provider, making remarkable a reality every single day.

We offer a wide range of innovative and high-quality industrial service solutions with the overall mission to make “industry work better”. You might just see O-rings and valves, but to us, they help power the world.

We know our hard-working people are the backbone of our mission, providing our customers with specialist knowledge and hands-on service.

This is where you come in!

With 170 sites across the UK and Ireland, a supportive environment is never far away.

And, even though we’re proud to be part of the manufacturing industry, our opportunities extend far beyond warehouse jobs. You might be a fitter in Cork, a workshop engineer in Aberdeen, or a customer operations manager in Hull – wherever you are, your specialism is our strength. Collectively, we all have incredible expertise, and we know it takes dedication and hard work to get there.

At ERIKS, we’re committed to building a community – it’s the people you work with, it’s the support you receive from your manager, it's the technical specialism that is at the core of everything we do.

What are you waiting for? We can’t do it without you!