Maintenance Reliability Engineer

As the world and the way people live is changing, we at Bekaert believe it’s our responsibility to contribute to finding new solutions for the future. With a 140+ year old heritage of excellence, innovation, and a future-focused mindset, we strive to create value for our customers and society. We aim to do this through innovative solutions and sustainable practices. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of steel wire transformation and coatings whilst also leveraging our expertise to develop innovative solutions with new materials and services in a safe, smart, and sustainable way.

Our focus extends to markets such as new mobility, low‑carbon construction, and green energy.

As a dynamic and growing company with over 24 000 employees worldwide, 75 nationalities, a retention rate above 90% and almost € 5.3 billion in combined revenue in 2023, we are looking for someone like you to join our team as we continue to shape a safer, more efficient, and connected world!

Working with the departmental management team to ensure all the companies and legislative operating standards and policies are adhered to.

To evaluate the efficiency of all activities in the Maintenance department and sites assets and adjust accordingly.

Endeavour to achieve the company’s KPI’s and work towards both the companies and legislative operating standards and policies to achieve.

Develop and maintain sites job planned works library and action plans.

Lead and coach FMEA to drive our root cause findings culture and ensure all learning events are implemented and communicated accordingly.

Principal accountabilities shall include but not be limited to:

• Work consistently within the remit of all company policies and procedures (health and safety, quality, HR & environmental) and manage members of the shift and day Maintenance team in doing the same.
• Ensure full compliance by all shift and day team members to the Company’s quality/environment standards (ISO 1401 etc.) and any legislation applicable to our operations (HSE, waste, COSHH etc.).
• Consistently demonstrate a positive leadership example to others while maintaining a professional and personable approach with an open‑door policy.
• Monitor and develop the performance of processes within the work area and ensure all shift and day team members are operating in full compliance with agreed KPI’s (H & S, quality, delivery, cost etc.).
• Support the maintenance foreman in the development of all personnel within the Maintenance department, including identifying and organising training requirements and auditing training records.
• Actively promote, support and engage in continuous improvement projects and ensure the sustainability of these activities through promotion of best operational practices.
• Continuous promotion of best practice H & S by co‑ordinating audits, SOP reviews, quality and accident/incident investigation.
• Administer and audit sites permit system to ensure we are working safely and in accordance with site regulations.
• Facilitate optimisation of waiting on maintenance (WOM) time of planned and unplanned activities.
• Ensure all planned maintenance activities are current, suitable and sufficient. Plan shutdowns and prioritise jobs and workload – both the maintenance team and contractors.
• Build and maintain a job plan library for high‑frequency jobs in Agility PM (to ensure safe and efficient execution of all maintenance jobs).
• Update job plans to ensure necessary changes and/or improvements are incorporated.
• Aggregate similar jobs into periodic blocks to maximise efficiency and use of available resources.
• Analyze maintenance data.
• Lead root cause failure analysis meetings.
• Coordinate implementation of defined actions.
• Coordinate equipment FMEA analysis.
• Facilitate implementation of defined FMEA actions.
• Define and implement optimised maintenance plan per equipment type.
• Maintenance plans include lubrication, preventive, predictive and failure‑finding tasks.
• Support the maintenance foreman in coaching the maintenance team to maintain root cause analysis, ensuring this forms part of our day‑to‑day working ethos.
• Actively provide reliability input…