Reliability Engineer
Location: Marshalls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Contract Type: Secondment starting early June'2025 until Jan'2026
Closing date: 18th April
About Us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the Function
Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo's 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It's an intricate and sophisticated operation that's the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.
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Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We're committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we'll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.
About the Role
As a Reliability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in a dynamic team ensuring our equipment is efficient, reliable, and well-maintained to meet production goals. You will lead efforts to:
- You will play a vital role to the achievement and improvement of Asset Care key performance matrix through the delivery of efficient and effective maintenance, repair, problem solving and improvement of assets and their availability across site.
- You will be pivotal in delivery of site compliance agenda - PUWER, PSSR, Fixed electrical testing etc.
- You will review and contribute to the Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) studies on your lines, ensuring criticality assessments are up to date and ensuring failure modes are addressed in our maintenance plans.
- You will review and improve our maintenance strategy, ensuring we are a proactive and condition-based engineering department as opposed to preventative and reactive.
- You will review major breakdowns ensuring these are root caused, linking these back into the maintenance plan to identify gaps.
- You will use data analysis to scope and deliver ‘improvement projects' which support compliance, waste, cost and performance reliability through continuous improvement in all lines integrating with key site leader objectives.
- You will participate with information sharing and team working, supporting any activities undertaken within the company including providing technical knowledge, One point lessons (OPLs) and collaborating with Original equipment manufacturer (OEMs) to drive effective solutions.
- You will be responsible for supporting capital work, including installation, commissioning and testing within area as required and will be responsible for feeding into early equipment management.
- You will proactively work with Operators, Engineers and team leaders to play a pivotal role in situational problem solving. Resolving problems and finding solutions via root-cause problem solving (RCPS), reducing repeat failures.
- You will be responsible for the electrical training of our onsite apprentices, taking ownership of their development, backed by your experience as a time-served, recognised apprentice.
- You will engage in Daily Tier meetings and performance-based consolations to raise and address persistent performance issues.
- You will be key in anticipating issues and be more proactive in approach, leading active solution driven initiatives with the wider engineering team.
- You may also give technical support during major breakdowns and during machine set ups and overhauls.
About You
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented professional with the following qualifications and attributes:
- Recognised Electrical or Mechanical degree with an HNC or equivalent.
- Skilled in diagnosing and repairing complex machinery faults.
- Experience with problem-solving techniques such as 5 Whys, RCPS, and familiarity with maintenance systems like SAP.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and comfortable with data-driven decision-making.
- Knowledge of Reliability/Maintenance methodologies.
- Fault finding expertise.
- Leadership qualities with the ability to inspire and mentor others.
- Excellent communicator and a collaborative team player.
- Conscientious, detail-oriented, and solution-focused.
- Positive, adaptable, and committed to safety and quality standards.
If you are a driven and innovative professional ready to take on a challenge, apply now to join our team and make a difference!
Rewards & Benefits Statement:
We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:
- Share schemes.
- Pension - Diageo pays up to 14%
- Product Allowance
- Annual Bonus
- 25 Days Annual Leave
- And many more!
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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