Job Purpose
The Reliability & Planning Lead is responsible for
planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities within Brewdog
manufacturing site. The role focuses on optimizing machine uptime, improving
efficiency, and ensuring that maintenance activities comply with safety, food,
and environmental standards. As part of this scope they will also manage
resources, spare parts, and collaborate with production teams to ensure smooth
operations. Additionally, the role includes reviewing and prioritizing new work
requests, defect notifications, and maintaining comprehensive KPI reporting. This
position is responsible for developing and implementing robust maintenance
strategies, optimising asset performance, whilst implementing processes that
optimise the cost per hl of the maintenance function.
Key Result Area / Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintenance Scheduling and Planning:
- Manage and develop a comprehensive preventive maintenance (PM) schedule for all plant equipment and facilities.
- Ensure that all maintenance tasks are prioritized effectively to minimize downtime and production disruption.
- Collaborate with the production team to align maintenance schedules with production needs and prevent conflicts.
- Plan and coordinate maintenance shutdowns, major outages, and contractor activities to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective execution. Conduct post-outage reviews to identify lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
- Review and Prioritize Work Requests and Defect Notifications:
- Work with the wider Maintenance Team to assess incoming work requests and defect notifications to prioritize tasks based on urgency and equipment criticality.
- Ensure that corrective and preventive maintenance work is scheduled efficiently to maintain high production uptime.
- Collaboration with Production Teams:
- Work closely with short-term and long-term production planning teams to ensure maintenance schedules are synchronized with production activities.
- Schedule maintenance work during planned downtime or low-production periods to minimize impact on operations.
- Resource Management:
- Coordinate the allocation of resources, such as labour, contractors, and tools, for scheduled maintenance tasks.
- Ensure that all resources are appropriately managed and available for maintenance work.
- Compliance and Safety:
- Ensure all maintenance activities comply with health, safety, and environmental standards, including HACCP, BRC, and other relevant regulations.
- Stay informed about relevant legislation and industry standards, ensuring that all maintenance practices are in line with legal requirements.
- Participate in audits and inspections to verify compliance with safety and operational standards.
- Work Order Tracking and Reporting:
- Track the progress of maintenance work orders to ensure timely completion and document work details, including labour hours, downtime, and parts used.
- Generate reports that track key maintenance performance indicators (KPIs) such as downtime, cost, and resource utilization.
- KPI Reporting:
- Track and report on KPIs related to equipment uptime, work history and backlog, maintenance costs, and efficiency in resource usage.
- Regularly assess maintenance performance and provide management with insights and recommendations based on KPI data.
- Identify trends in maintenance data to pinpoint areas for improvement.
- Data Analysis and Continuous Improvement:
- Analyse historical maintenance data to detect recurring issues and recommend corrective actions.
- Continuously improve maintenance processes to enhance productivity and equipment reliability.
- Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Coordinate with the engineering, procurement, and operations teams to ensure that maintenance plans align with operational needs and that adequate resources are in place.
- Foster strong communication with production teams to ensure minimal disruption during maintenance activities.
- Reliability Engineering:
- Lead or participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations for breakdowns and recurring equipment failures and implement corrective measures to reduce downtime
- Utilise data analysis and engineering principles to diagnose complex issues. Analyse maintenance reports, spare parts usage, performance data to optimise routines that improve efficiency, reduce downtime and cost
- Design and execute reliability tests to evaluate performance
- Collaborate with operations, and engineering teams to integrate reliability best practices into daily operations and new equipment designs
- Advanced Maintenance Practices – plan for implementation of practices that upskill operators and transfers more ownership into their hands, e.g. CIL, Autonomous Maintenance, etc
- Monitor, analyse, and drive improvements in site-wide Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) through identification and elimination of performance and availability losses
Key Relationships - Internal & External
HSE Team, Production Teams, 3rd Parties
Health & Safety
- Ensure that Health and Safety guidelines and fire regulations are strictly adhered to at all times
- Comply with safe working practices as defined by BrewDog
- Complete online or face to face training as and when required
- Take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by acts or omissions at work
- Report any accidents, incidents or near misses as soon as reasonably practicable.
General
- Be aware of and adhere to BrewDog policies and the Workplace Code at all times
- Take part in crew reviews throughout the year
- Cooperate with other BrewDog departments to achieve a great experience for our customers, applicants, colleagues, and contractors
- Attend training courses and complete online
training modules as required to meet the
requirements of the role
- Take responsibility for own personal development, seeking out opportunities to learn new skills
- Undertake any other duties as requested which are reasonably deemed to be within the scope of the role or necessary for the smooth running of the business
- Apply the BrewDog charter and behaviours to every aspect of the role at all times
- Protect and enhance the interests and reputation of BrewDog internally and externally