Reliability/Maintenance Engineer (Days) -Mars Wrigley

Job Description

Job Description:

Reliability/Maintenance Engineer (Days) -Mars Wrigley

📍 Plymouth (PL6 Estover)
💷 £43,000– £54,000 dependent on experience
🎁 + £2,500 welcome bonus, Performance Bonus & Exceptional Benefits

⏰ Shifts: Mon-Fri 7am-3pm

🌟 Why Join Us?

Join Mars Wrigley Plymouth and help us build a better world, one delicious bite at a time. We're a diverse community that values long-term careers, offering competitive rewards, fantastic perks (including freebies!), and best-in-class development to fuel your growth across our world-famous brands. Your future matters, and we're committed to supporting you every step of the way.

💼 The Role

We're looking for a talented Reliability/Maintenance engineer to join our vital factory team. If you're a hands-on professional who thrives on delivering continuous improvements of plant mechanical systems ensuring mechanical standards are maintained in a high-speed production environment, this is your chance to make a significant impact.

In this crucial role, you'll be our go-to expert to keep abreast of the day-to-day technical issues working from the FMOS process within the factory, helping to maintain the individual departments targets in line with business priorities. To continuously improve plant and equipment to world class levels of reliability, availability and safety whilst providing excellent customer service.

⭐ What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary £43,000-£54,000
• Hot food restaurant on site
• Welcome bonus paid in your first week salary
• Career growth opportunities with structured development & Mars University
• Private healthcare + equal parental leave
• Onsite gym and nurse/osteopath/podiatrist
• Generous pension (up to 9% contribution)
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• EV salary sacrifice scheme
• Gym membership & wellbeing support
• Annual leave starting at 24 days, rising to 32 with service
• Free parking on site

✅ What We’re Looking For

• Technical capability and hands-on experience with multiple types of production machines
• Previous experience either in a shift or maintenance technician role
• Excellent communication skills
• Previous process and continuous improvement experience
• Results-driven individual who excels at problem-solving, collaborates effectively with others, and can easily prioritize diverse workloads

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• Maintain regular communication with shift-based production and maintenance teams to understand and collate any breakdown or reliability issues
• Drive performance improvement projects and cross functional improvement meetings weekly
• Creatively identify and make plant improvements, including regularly reviewing planned maintenance schedules for improved effectiveness
• Provide technical advice, problem solving assistance and to support operational areas, by defining equipment performance requirements and repair specifications
• Drive and support continuous improvement in the business by effectively using root cause analysis
• Coordinates activities with internal customers including maintenance and operations management, engineering, and external contracted resources.
• Drive actions and initiatives related to Planned Maintenance Pillar deployment across site

🌍 What You Can Expect from Mars

• Work alongside 130,000+ Associates worldwide guided by our Five Principles
• Be part of a purpose-driven company shaping “the world we want tomorrow”
• Access world-class training & development from day one
• Join a company with an industry-leading salary and benefits package