Reliability Improvement Engineer

Why Greencore?


Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately 4bn.
Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.


Here at Leeds we make just over 40% of all UK frozen Yorkshire puddings; making us one of the UK's largest suppliers of frozen Yorkshire puddings to Asda, Morrisons & Tesco to name a few!


What you'll be doing:


The Reliability Engineer - Site Services & Utilities is responsible for ensuring the safe, compliant, reliable, and efficient operation of all site utility and infrastructure assets. The role focuses on asset reliability, lifecycle management, statutory compliance, performance improvement and risk reduction across critical site services that underpin food safety and production continuity. This is a proactive engineering role, driving reliability strategy rather than reactive maintenance.

• Develop and own reliability strategies for site utilities including boilers, steam systems, hotwells, water treatment, compressed air, refrigeration/HVAC, electrical distribution and effluent systems
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions
• Ensure utilities and pressure systems comply with PSSR, EAWR, PUWER, COSHH and site standards
• Support risk assessments, method statements and management of change (MoC) for utilities systems
• Drive improvements in energy, water, steam and compressed-air efficiency
• Lead and support utilities-related CAPEX and improvement projects
• Own utilities reliability KPIs (availability, downtime, backlog, defects, compliance)
• Maintain asset registers, criticality assessments and lifecycle plans
• Act as the technical authority for site services and utilities

What we're looking for:

• Knowledge and experience of full asset care strategies and processes (including maintenance workflow, reliability, failure reduction, FMEA, TPM etc) and ability to define strategy based on business needs
• Experience and knowledge of reliability performance indicators, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), mean time between failure (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), failures rates etc.
• Experience and knowledge of leading manufacturing excellence preferably in an fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) environment
• Experience with effective and successful problem solving - demonstrates the ability to think through problems, undertake appropriate analysis and take effective actions in relation to safety and reliability
• Keeps up-to-speed with industry advances in the tools and techniques relating to reliability approaches
• Experience mentoring junior members of a team and influencing/promoting across the engineering and manufacturing organisation the link between reliability and business performance
• Has workshop facilitation skills to extract knowledge on failure modes/root causes from engineering/manufacturing personnel and turn this into useful information for reliability
• Capacity to develop tools and conduct analysis in in Excel
• Has a working knowledge of best-in-class condition based monitoring techniques
• Has experience working with computers - specifically a working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Has experience with defining and deploying CMMS across multiple sites

Essential

• Degree / HNC / HND in Mechanical, Electrical or Reliability Engineering
• Proven experience in utilities or site services within manufacturing (food preferred)
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles (RCM, FMEA, RCA)
• Knowledge of UK engineering legislation and compliance
• Data-driven mindset with strong analytical skills
• Ability to influence and lead without direct authority

Desirable

• Experience in food or regulated manufacturing environments
• Familiarity with CMMS, condition monitoring and energy management systems
• Exposure to insurance inspections and statutory compliance frameworks
• Chartered or working towards professional registration

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.


What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.


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