Engineering & Reliability Lead

Engineering Performance & Reliability Manager

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey.

• Own and continuously improve the site engineering planning process.
• Work with the Maintenance Manager and Shift Engineers to develop robust weekly maintenance plans.
• Coordinate engineering activity to ensure resources are aligned to business priorities.
• Provide clear visibility of planned engineering activities across the site.
• Support planning of preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance, shutdown work and engineering improvement projects.
• Ensure engineering work is appropriately planned, prepared and resourced before execution.
• Monitor engineering backlog and drive completion of priority activities.
• Improve engineering handovers and communication between shifts.
• Develop planning standards that maximise engineering effectiveness and minimise reactive work.

• Own and continuously improve the site’s Planned Maintenance programme.
• Review PM effectiveness and ensure maintenance frequencies remain appropriate.
• Ensure PM schedules are optimised based on asset performance, breakdown history and RCA findings.
• Conduct routine audits of completed PMs to verify quality, compliance and adherence to standards.
• Challenge ineffective PM activities and drive improvements to maintenance routines.
• Ensure PMs remain focused on failure prevention rather than task completion.
• Support the Maintenance Manager in driving maintenance excellence across the site.
• Act as site owner for the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Optimise CMMS workflows, reporting, structures and user compliance.
• Ensure engineering work orders are raised, managed and closed correctly.
• Ensure meaningful fault descriptions, corrective actions and closure comments are captured.
• Improve engineering data quality to support effective reliability analysis.
• Ensure engineering labour hours are accurately captured against work orders.
• Ensure engineering activity is visible and traceable through the CMMS.
• Develop reporting that provides visibility of:
  Asset performance trends
• Train and coach engineers on effective CMMS usage.

• Champion engineering breakdown analysis across the site.
• Coach engineers in effective Root Cause Analysis and fault-finding techniques.
• Ensure engineering-related RCA actions are completed and embedded.
• Challenge repeat failures and recurring equipment losses.
• Track and report recurring breakdown trends.
• Develop asset reliability improvement plans.
• Drive permanent corrective actions rather than temporary fixes.
• Ensure lessons learned from breakdowns are embedded into PMs, SOPs, training and engineering standards.
• Work with Shift Engineers to improve Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and reduce Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).

• Represent Engineering at:
• DDS Meetings
• Lineside Meetings
• Rapid Changeover Events
• Cross-Functional RCA Activities
• Support engineering participation in site improvement initiatives.
• Drive engineering ownership of actions arising from CI events.
• Ensure engineering priorities remain aligned to site loss elimination activities.
• Promote a proactive engineering culture focused on improvement and prevention.
• Support implementation of engineering standards that improve reliability and operational performance.

• Develop and maintain engineering performance dashboards and KPI reporting.
• Monitor and report: PM Compliance, PM Audit Scores, Repeat Breakdowns, MTBF, MTTR.
• Identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Escalate risks, non-compliance and recurring failures where appropriate.
• Ensure engineering actions are visible, owned and completed.

• Coach engineers in:
  Breakdown Analysis, Reliability Improvement, CMMS Usage, Maintenance Planning Principles
• Support the development of future engineering leaders.
• Promote accountability, ownership and proactive behaviours across the engineering team.
• Share best practice and support knowledge transfer across shifts.

Success in the role will be measured through:

• Reduction in repeat breakdowns
• Improvement in MTBF
• Reduction in chronic equipment losses

• PM Compliance
• PM Audit Scores
• Reduction in PM-generated breakdowns

• Work Order Quality
• Labour Capture Accuracy
• Action Closure Performance
• Data Quality Improvements
• CI Action Completion
• Improved…