Site Reliability & Asset Care Engineer
| Posting date: | 28 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | £53,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 February 2026 |
| Location: | WA7 6SA |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Staffline |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 107761-36959 |
Summary
• Job Title: Site Reliability & Asset Care Engineer
• Department: Group Reliability Engineering Improvements
• Job Type: Permanent
• Monday to Friday Days Role, 38 Hours
• JOB: Location: Cheshire, Warrington area
• Manufacturing Company, market leader
• Job Reward: £50 – 53k plus comprehensive package, bonus up to £8k and exceptional pension and benefits
• A newly created role, ensuring the delivery of efficient and effective planned maintenance strategy , repair, problem solving and improvement of assets, working within a group function
• Reporting directly to the Group Reliability Manager, It’s a growing team, site and business...
• You will deliver the Engineering Reliability Maintenance plan, in a technical leadership role, empowering the hands-on Reliability Maintenance Engineers to put into action; move away from a reactive maintenance culture.
• Reviewing Maintenance effectiveness and machine history to develop reports, KPIs and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Numerous safety and data led projects to get involved in as the site invests over £100M into its assets.
• You will have the autonomy to develop the function. Its brand new; your chance to take the lead in developing the asset care strategy in a hands-on influencing role. You won’t be on the tools, but you well develop and implement tools such as condition monitoring, RCA and CMMS, rolling out the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
Role and Responsibilities - Site Reliability & Asset Care Engineer
• Development of Condition Based Maintenance strategy for site using appropriate tools and techniques
• Defining equipment criticality in relation to safety, productivity impact supporting the prioritisation of asset care strategies
• You’ll develop and manage the programme of equipment inspections and repairs
• You will provide pro-active maintenance support and strategy to the engineering team
• You will minimize downtime on the plant, improve continuously.
• Assist in implementing the maintenance excellence strategy, focusing on driving improvements in equipment Reliability and Availability
• Achieve Maintenance Excellence objectives
• Responsible for responding to plant reliability issues, analyse, fault find and repair route cause problems to ensure downtime is minimized
• Ensure that business systems are being used effectively to develop a planned maintenance strategy
• Ensure root-cause analysis is conducted for all relevant failures with corrective actions
• Coach engineers and operators to improve the knowledge in best practice maintenance
• Deliver continuous improvement to reduce downtime
• Ensure maintenance schedules are updated with learnings from equipment failures to minimize plant downtime
• Manage the collection of data on equipment failures and systems to reduce line downtime
• Implement maintenance programmes that support / improve asset performance
• Ensure the PPM schedule is completed to the required standard
Role Requirements Site Reliability & Asset Care Engineer
• Engineering, Apprentice Trained NVQ Level 3 HNC/Degree desirable
• Several years manufacturing experience, you may have developed from graduate or qualified craft engineer
• Experience of Engineering manuals and Drawings
• Knowledge of Computerised Systems, ideally Maintenance led
• Excellent PC, Data Analysis and Excellent Communication skills
• Previous Experience in a similar role desired, but not essential
• Some knowledge of TPM/Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques
What’s On Offer? Site Reliability & Asset Care Engineer
• Highly complex time sensitive manufacturing operation offering you lots of challenge and variety
• Excellent Bonus potential and Pension
• Some hybrid working
• Extensive training and development within an established engineering pathways programme on offer
• A role within a strategic group Reliability function with autonomy to develop your role
• Join an award winning, growing and investing market leader
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