Engineering - Reliability Engineering Lead

Engineering - Reliability Engineering Lead Job Description

Posted Wednesday 25 February 2026 at 01:00

Reliability Engineering Lead

Location:
Memory Lane Cakes

Shift:
Weekdays, 08:00 – 16:00

Salary:
Competitive- with opportunity for growth

We have an exciting opportunity for a Reliability Engineering Lead to join our Engineering Team at Memory Lane Cakes.

Finsbury Food Group is a leading speciality bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards and build long-term relationships within the food service channel. Finsbury offers a wide range of bakery products and is a leading frozen supplier into the Food service sector.

This is a strategic role ensuring all plant and equipment is reliable, compliant, and aligned with operational needs. You will lead asset care programmes, reduce downtime, optimise lifecycle costs, and drive continuous improvement across the site.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As our Reliability Engineering Lead, you will be responsible for shaping and delivering the site reliability and asset strategy. You will lead the development and implementation of the site asset care program to optimise equipment performance and availability. You will investigate engineering non-conformities, including breakdowns, failures, and deviations, and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs).

You will set clear performance expectations and drive accountability across the team, you will oversee recruitment, workforce planning, and succession development.

You will own and deliver reliability standards across the site, by owning key process including; NCR management, root cause analysis, risk based maintenance plans, and PUWER assessments to guarantee equipment compliance and safety, and keep all documentation, manuals, and compliance logs up to date.

Additionally, you will collaborate with Production and Operations to align engineering priorities with business needs, you will develop and manage the Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) schedule, coordinate maintenance activities with production to minimise operational disruption, and monitor key performance indicators such as MTBF, MTTR, downtime, and OEE.

You will also lead and develop apprentices and junior engineers to build reliability capability and drive continuous improvement initiatives across maintenance and operational teams.

Ideally this is you!

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a reliability or maintenance engineering role, ideally FMCG or bakery
• Previously held a leadership role with responsibility for managing team performance, driving operational improvements and ensuring delivery against business objectives.
• Strong knowledge of PUWER regulations and engineering compliance
• Skilled in RCA, RCM, FMEA, OEE analysis, and predictive maintenance
• Familiarity with CMMS systems and maintenance scheduling tools
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and organisational skills
• Strong communication and leadership skills, confident presenting across all levels of the business
• Degree/HND in Mechanical, Electrical, Control & Automation, or Reliability Engineering (or equivalent)

What’s in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – T&C’s dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards
  · Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our Linked In page to find out more!

Our vision is to be the leading speciality bakery group in the UK, and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.

We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!