Mechanical Reliability Engineer- Sussex

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Closing Date

03/11/2025

Mechanical Reliability Engineer - Sussex

Employment Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: Up to £55,000 dependent on experience

Location: This role will be 2/3 days WFH and 2/3 days travelling to different Sussex sites or at an office. Driving Licence Essential

We are currently recruiting for a Mechanical Reliability Engineer based in Sussex offering your expertise in creating and implementing effective strategies to ensure our assets are maintained to a high standard with the primary aim to increase reliability and minimise downtime.

You will be joining us to expand the team to be more focussed in delivering strategies within Wastewater, aiming to switch from reactive to planned maintenance, aiming to become a reliability centred maintenance function in our AMP 8 investment period.

 

As the Mechanical reliability engineer you will be designing and implementing RCM strategies to ensure that assets are maintained in the most cost-effective and efficient way, ensuring reliability, legislative and environmental compliance.

 

In achieving the required standards set out by our regulators, the role will require regular monitoring of maintenance strategies informed by asset performance, asset information review, asset surveillance and KPI trending to improve asset uptime and efficiency.

You will be conducting reliability studies such as FMECA and RCA ( Failure Modes Effect Criticality Analysis and Root Cause Analysis) assessments to drive improvement in asset performance and apply industry standards and best practices in day-to-day asset engineering activities.

You will be responsible for creating and maintaining detailed documentation of reliability strategies, maintenance procedures, failure analysis, and best practices.

To be successful in this role, you would will passionate on working with technical element and possess the demonstrable skill: Ideally you will have a Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent relevant industry experience. You will have:

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Location:
FALMER
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Utilities

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