Reliability Lead – Food Manufacturing – Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire | £49,000 shown on vacancy listing, dependent on experience + 10% bonus | Monday–Friday 08:00–16:00 | Permanent

We are working with a leading UK food manufacturing business, producing some of the nation's most recognised snack brands.

The site is heavily invested in its people and equipment, with a strong culture of continuous improvement, reliability and employee development.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Reliability Lead to join the engineering team on a permanent Monday to Friday days pattern.

As part of the site leadership team, you'll take ownership of a production area, building robust maintenance processes that maximise equipment reliability, reduce downtime and support wider operational performance.

This role would suit a Senior Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Team Leader, Reliability Engineer or Maintenance Lead who enjoys coaching others, driving improvements and working closely with production teams, and who wants to step into a leadership-focused role without giving up work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance planning and scheduling activities within your production area.
• Review equipment losses and implement corrective actions to improve reliability.
• Conduct root cause analysis and develop long-term solutions to recurring issues.
• Drive maintenance performance through daily and weekly review meetings.
• Support and develop Autonomous Maintenance activities across production teams.
• Coach and develop colleagues to improve engineering and operational capability.
• Work closely with Operations and Production to support capital projects, equipment improvements and site performance targets.

Skills & Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent engineering qualification, with a strong maintenance engineering background in manufacturing.
• Experience leading, coaching or developing a maintenance or production team.
• Proven fault-finding, problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience within FMCG, food manufacturing or automated production is desirable.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable influencing across engineering and production.

Benefits

• Competitive salary dependent on experience, with £49,000 shown on the vacancy listing.
• Monday to Friday days, 08:00–16:00.
• 10% bonus scheme.
• Pension scheme with up to 7% employer contribution.
• 25 days' holiday plus the option to buy additional leave.
• Healthcare package including Digital GP and wellbeing support.
• Employee discounts platform.
• Career progression within a large multi-site manufacturing group, with ongoing training and development.

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