Reliability Manager

Position: Reliability Manager (Permanent)
At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations'​ worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 150 years.

Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention. It is part of our philosophy to provide honest good sense on issues of health and well-being, helping the whole family to enjoy our products as part of a healthy, balanced diet, through a range of products to suit all meal occasions, lifestyles and tastes.

Role:
Reliability Manager

Location:

Bolton
Salary:
Circa £65,000 + Annual Profit-Related Bonus

The Recipe Are you a Engineering Reliability Manager, Engineering Maintenance Manager or Senior Engineering Team Leader with experience of working in a manufacturing environment and looking to progress or up for a new challenge?

Due to continued growth and investment in our Engineering-led manufacturing sites, we have an opportunity for an Engineering Reliability Manager to support our Bakery based in Bolton. As a key part of our Engineering Management team, you'll engage and motivate a skilled team of engineers, utilising root cause analysis to identify and prioritise corrective, preventative, predictive and mitigating actions.

The team are dedicated to delivering unbeatable quality in a safe manner with highly reliable equipment. We are proud to be leading and developing a collaborative, creative and responsive team at the cutting edge of engineering innovation. In this role you will lead, motivate and manage a team of multi skilled engineers to drive a culture that delivers plant reliability, product quality and safety in line with company standards.

Working with the Engineering Manager you will have accountability for delivering the engineering strategy, via planned, corrective and reactive maintenance work

The Role We’re going on a journey of innovation and of continuous improvement whilst working on a changing approach to reliability centred maintenance.

Our Engineering Reliability Managers and our Engineering teams are encouraged to foster new ideas and perspectives whilst driving change at a pace; we’re looking for you to make a personal impact, have passion and inspire a team whilst recognising successes and rewarding that along the way. We take pride in keeping our people and customer’s safe, so you’ll play a key role in ensuring work is conducted in accordance with our stringent health and safety requirements.

Passionate about our people you too will want to engage and develop your team driving together for results. People are our most precious ingredient so along with your technical focus, you will have a passion for people development as well as a hunger for working collaboratively with your colleagues to drive the success of our site. Through coaching and mentoring, we aspire to invest in your development to become our future senior leaders.

Responsibilities include:

Safety - Accountable for own and team adherence to relevant safety performance across all activities
Leadership – responsible for team training plan, individual development plans and performance reviews
Resource Management – Responsible for ensuring that the day to day operational requirements can be fulfilled through the appropriate provision and allocation of team members
Operational Management - Accountable for plant performance uplifts via allocated reactive, corrective and planned maintenance tasks across plant and equipment through the effective management of their team
Built on concepts from robust Root Cause Analysis of Top Losses/MI losses data within SAP. Develop site led Asset Care MI/Losses reduction plan by utilising various CI Tools & techniques. Essential Ingredients
Possess an Engineering Qualification such as a Degree, HND, HNC, BTEC or equivalent
You’ll have previous experience of managing a team of Engineers, with the ability to lead, develop, coach and mentor
Experienced in implementing risk-based maintenance strategies
A working knowledge and…