Reliability and Maintenance Improvement

Equipment reliability depends on more than responding to breakdowns. Effective maintenance also involves understanding why failures occur, reviewing maintenance practices and using information from equipment and production systems to improve performance.
Reliability and maintenance improvement professionals help businesses reduce recurring faults, make better use of maintenance resources and improve the performance of their assets and maintenance processes.
RJN Engineering Selection recruits professionals involved in reliability engineering, maintenance planning and continuous improvement.
Typical job roles
Depending on the focus and responsibilities of the role, these may include:
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Reliability Engineer
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Maintenance Engineer – Reliability
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Maintenance Planner
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Maintenance Scheduler
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Maintenance Improvement Engineer
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Asset Performance Engineer
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Condition Monitoring Engineer
Industries and working environments
Reliability and maintenance improvement roles are found across manufacturing and other asset-intensive industries, including:
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Food and FMCG manufacturing
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Automotive and high-volume production
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Metals and heavy manufacturing
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Chemical and process manufacturing
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Building materials and ceramics
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Paper, packaging and converting
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Plastics and polymer processing
The work may involve reviewing breakdown history, investigating recurring faults, analysing equipment performance, developing preventive maintenance plans, improving maintenance processes and introducing condition monitoring or other reliability practices.
How we help employers
Employers may need to address recurring equipment failures, high maintenance costs, ineffective planned maintenance or limited visibility of asset performance. The skills required to tackle these issues vary, from practical maintenance planning to specialist reliability engineering and wider improvement responsibilities.
We work with employers to understand the challenges they need to address and the capabilities required, helping them find professionals who can contribute to improved maintenance and asset performance.
How we help engineers
Reliability and maintenance improvement roles can suit engineers who want to apply their technical knowledge to identifying problems, analysing performance and making lasting improvements.
Whether your experience is in reliability engineering, maintenance planning, condition monitoring or maintenance management, we can help you explore opportunities that reflect your skills and career objectives.