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# Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** AVARA FOODS LIMITED
- **Location:** Brackley, UK
- **Salary:** £40,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, Reliability Engineering, PUWER Regulations
- **Published:** September 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gbd254c2954913e4d40499124cc49db19b/eaa

## About the Role

* Engineering Qualification above L3 (Bachelor's degree in Engineering required, HND/HNC or L3 engineering qualification may be considered dependent on experience)
 * Experience gained from an Engineering Maintenance environment

 * Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multi-task and thrive in a timeline-driven environment
 * Good interpersonal communication skills
 * Ability to work individually or as part of a team
 * Ability to problem solve
 * Strong Analytical skills
 * Good IT ability

Desirable

 * Knowledge of CMMS system (Mainsaver/Spidex)
 * CAD experience
 * Experience in managing projects
 * On site contractor management

## Description

Are you passionate about Engineering? Looking for a new challenge? Do you have experience or qualifications in Reliability engineering?
As an inclusive, forward-thinking business, we take pride in our approach to investing in our people across Avara Foods and are looking for a highly competent and motivated Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering Team, based at our Brackley site.
There is an opportunity for the role to be undertaken by engineering graduates as well as experienced professionals.
As a Reliability Engineer, you'll be working Monday to Friday 08:00-17:00
What will you be doing as a Reliability Engineer at Avara?
As a Reliability Engineer you'll have Engineering responsibility for an area within the operational environment as the Reliability Engineer. Monitoring equipment downtime, analysing trends to drive continuous improvement and reliability initiatives and projects
What will your key responsibilities as a Reliability Engineer include?

 * Reliability/Asset Care Manager, responsible for all equipment in an area
 * Maintain a high level of reliability and availability of factory equipment through an effective planned maintenance regime
 * Responsible for the gathering and analysis of equipment efficiency and downtime in order to drive continuous improvement initiatives
 * Raising of Planned Maintenance or reactive maintenance jobs for respective area
 * Review of all completed job sheets in respective area
 * Production of downtime data for weekly meetings
 * Lead and support installation and capital projects
 * Communicate and collaborate with other colleagues, suppliers and contractors
 * Understanding of engineering and operational KPI's and be able to identify areas for improvement
 * Interact with on-shift engineers and other site engineering teams to resolve challenging equipment problems
 * Support the Site Principal Engineer and engineering peers to develop robust weekly and monthly maintenance plans that improve asset availability and equipment performance
 * Coordinate OEM engineer service visits with production and planning teams and scheduling further work that arises from those inspections
 * Oversee equipment calibrations and complete and review PUWER assessments to maintain equipment compliance


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