Asset & Reliability Engineer

Jackson Hogg are delighted to be exclusively partnering with our long-standing Global client for the appointment of an Asset & Reliability Engineer to join their growing team on a permanent basis. This is a day shift position, Monday to Friday.

This is a newly created position to focus on supporting asset integrity and improving equipment reliability. The role provides technical direction and assurance across plant equipment, utilities and facilities, supporting safe, reliable an environmentally compliant operations.

The role develops maintenance strategies, investigates recurring failures and recommends technical improvements and asset investment priorities. It challenges ineffective maintenance or unacceptable equipment condition and escalates concerns to the Engineering Manager.

Job Description

• Support the management of safety and environmental critical equipment, ensuring maintenance, inspection and testing requirements are clearly defined and recorded in the CMMS

• Monitor asset condition and integrity, identifying deterioration, obsolescence and risks requiring intervention.

• Develop and review preventive maintenance strategies using equipment criticality, failure history, manufacturer recommendations and inspection findings.

• Lead or support investigations into recurring failures, follow through agreed actions and review their effectiveness.

• Monitor reliability performance, including repeat failures, equipment availability, mean time between failures and mean time to repair, where reliable data is available.

• Provide technical support for repairs, replacement specifications and maintenance methods, coordinating specialist input where required.

• Develop prioritised plans for equipment replacement, refurbishment and capital investment complete with high-quality justifications.

Skills Required

• Understanding of process safety, safety and environmental critical equipment, inspection requirements and escalation of equipment defects.

• Relevant engineering qualification or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in industrial maintenance, reliability or asset integrity. Chemical manufacturing or comparable process industry experience would be an advantage.

• Knowledge of safe systems of work, including permits to work, mechanical and electrical isolations, risk assessments.

• Knowledge of equipment failure mechanisms and maintenance strategies within the role’s technical discipline, recognising when specialist advice is required.

• Ability to investigate failures, assess technical evidence and recommend practical solutions.

Benefits

With a low turn over of staff, and exciting plans for the future this is an excellent time to join the business to grow and develop your knowledge. You will be working with exceptional Engineers & Managers. Along with this there are a number of other brilliant benefits;

• Competitive salary

• Discretionary Bonus scheme

• 12 % Non-contributory Pension Scheme

• Life Insurance & Group Income Protection

• 25 days holiday plus statutory days

• Long service holiday accrual scheme

• Holiday Purchase Scheme

• Free on-site parking

• Cycle to work scheme

• Free fruit