Engineering Performance & Reliability Lead

Date: 18 Sept 2026

Location: Middlesbrough, MDB, GB, TS2 1XA

Company: Glanbia

Engineering Performance & Reliability Manager

Glanbia Performance Nutrition

Join this dynamic team focused on delivering better nutrition for every step of life’s journey.

The Opportunity

The Engineering Performance & Reliability Manager is responsible for driving engineering performance, reliability, maintenance planning excellence and continuous improvement across the Middlesbrough site. The role acts as the key link between Engineering, Operations, Technical and Continuous Improvement functions, ensuring that engineering activity is planned effectively, executed to a high standard and continuously improved through robust systems and processes. This position owns the engineering operating systems that support performance, including maintenance planning, CMMS optimisation, breakdown analysis governance, PM effectiveness, reliability improvement programmes and engineering continuous improvement activities. The role does not directly manage engineers but is responsible for ensuring engineering processes, standards and systems are effective, adhered to and continuously improved.

Job Summary

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

• Own and continuously improve the site engineering planning process.

• Work with the Maintenance Manager and Shift Engineers to develop robust weekly maintenance plans.

• Coordinate engineering activity to ensure resources are aligned to business priorities.

• Provide clear visibility of planned engineering activities across the site.

• Support planning of preventative maintenance, corrective maintenance, shutdown work and engineering improvement projects.

• Ensure engineering work is appropriately planned, prepared and resourced before execution.

• Monitor engineering backlog and drive completion of priority activities.

• Improve engineering handovers and communication between shifts.

• Develop planning standards that maximise engineering effectiveness and minimise reactive work.

Planned Maintenance Excellence

• Own and continuously improve the site’s Planned Maintenance programme.

• Review PM effectiveness and ensure maintenance frequencies remain appropriate.

• Ensure PM schedules are optimised based on asset performance, breakdown history and RCA findings.

• Conduct routine audits of completed PMs to verify quality, compliance and adherence to standards.

• Challenge ineffective PM activities and drive improvements to maintenance routines.

• Ensure PMs remain focused on failure prevention rather than task completion.

• Support the Maintenance Manager in driving maintenance excellence across the site.

CMMS Ownership & Optimisation

• Act as site owner for the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

• Optimise CMMS workflows, reporting, structures and user compliance.

• Ensure engineering work orders are raised, managed and closed correctly.

• Ensure meaningful fault descriptions, corrective actions and closure comments are captured.

• Improve engineering data quality to support effective reliability analysis.

• Ensure engineering labour hours are accurately captured against work orders.

• Ensure engineering activity is visible and traceable through the CMMS.

• Develop reporting that provides visibility of:

• Engineering workload

• Open work orders

• Engineering backlog

• Resource utilisation

• Repeat failures

• Asset performance trends

• Train and coach engineers on effective CMMS usage.

Reliability & Breakdown Elimination

• Champion engineering breakdown analysis across the site.

• Coach engineers in effective Root Cause Analysis and fault-finding techniques.

• Ensure engineering-related RCA actions are completed and embedded.

• Challenge repeat failures and recurring equipment losses.

• Track and report recurring breakdown trends.

• Develop asset reliability improvement plans.

• Drive permanent corrective actions rather than temporary fixes.

• Ensure lessons learned from breakdowns are embedded into PMs, SOPs, training and engineering standards.

• Work with Shift Engineers to improve Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and reduce Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).

Engineering Continuous Improvement

• Represent Engineering at:

• DDS Meetings

• Lineside Meetings

• Loss Elimination Meetings

• Rapid Changeover Events

• Continuous Improvement Workshops

• Cross-Functional RCA Activities

• Support engineering participation in site improvement initiatives.

• Drive engineering ownership of actions arising from CI events.

• Ensure engineering priorities remain aligned to site loss elimination activities.

• Promote a proactive engineering culture focused on improvement and prevention.

• Support implementation of engineering standards that improve reliability and operational performance.

Engineering Performance Management

• Develop and maintain engineering performance dashboards and KPI reporting.

• Monitor and report:

• PM Compliance

• PM Audit Scores

• PM Effectiveness

• Engineering Backlog

• Repeat Breakdowns

• MTBF

• MTTR

• Open Engineering Actions

• Engineering RCA Completion

• Asset Reliability Trends

• Work Order Quality

• Identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities.

• Escalate risks, non-compliance and recurring failures where appropriate.

• Ensure engineering actions are visible, owned and completed.

Coaching & Development

• Coach engineers in:

• Root Cause Analysis

• Breakdown Analysis

• Reliability Improvement

• CMMS Usage

• Continuous Improvement Tools

• Maintenance Planning Principles

• Support the development of future engineering leaders.

• Promote accountability, ownership and proactive behaviours across the engineering team.

• Share best practice and support knowledge transfer across shifts.

Key Performance Indicators

Success in the role will be measured through:

Reliability

• Reduction in repeat breakdowns

• Improvement in MTBF

• Reduction in chronic equipment losses

Planned Maintenance

• PM Compliance

• PM Audit Scores

• PM Effectiveness

• Reduction in PM-generated breakdowns

CMMS

• Work Order Quality

• Labour Capture Accuracy

• Engineering Backlog Visibility

• Action Closure Performance

• Data Quality Improvements

Continuous Improvement

• Engineering RCA Completion

• CI Action Completion

• Engineering Participation in Loss Elimination Activities

Engineering Culture

• Improved collaboration between Engineering and Operations

• Increased proactive problem solving

• Improved engineering accountability

• Increased engineering ownership of site performance

Qualification & Experience Requirements

Essential

• Engineering background within FMCG or manufacturing.

• Strong understanding of planned maintenance systems.

• Experience using CMMS platforms.

• Experience conducting Root Cause Analysis.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to influence without direct authority.

Desirable

• Lean Manufacturing experience.

• Continuous Improvement experience.

• Reliability Engineering knowledge.

• Project Management experience.

• Experience facilitating improvement workshops.

• Knowledge of MTBF, MTTR and asset reliability metrics.

Behaviours

The successful candidate will -

• Challenge the status quo.

• Drive accountability.

• Use data to make informed decisions.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships.

• Take ownership of issues through to resolution.

• Promote a proactive rather than reactive maintenance culture.

• Champion continuous improvement.

• Lead by example.

• Focus on sustainable long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes.

Career Pathway

This role has been created to strengthen engineering performance and reliability across the site whilst developing future engineering leadership capability.

If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please apply!

Where you Will Work

The opportunity will be based in Middlesbrough, UK onsite.

What We Would Like to Offer You

The opportunity to develop your career on a global stage, continuous learning through an on-demand learning platform, and a competitive compensation package including staff discounts, health plan, competitive salary,

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a better nutrition company with three divisions: Performance Nutrition, Health & Nutrition and Dairy Nutrition. Collectively and with our partners we offer an incredible breadth of expertise in nutrition. We employ a team of 5,800 people, work with global food and beverage companies, and sell our award-winning and market-leading brands and ingredients in more than 100 countries worldwide.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a variety of candidates. We will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.