px Group

Reliability Engineer

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Job Description

Reliability Engineer

Application Deadline: 24 September 2026

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Wyke

Reporting To: Reliability Manager

Description

Our Business

px PEOPLE, their commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork, are the reason for px Group’s continuing growth and success story. We aim to be the elite provider of operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions in high hazard, highly regulated industries nationally and as we grow, across Europe and globally. For more information visit www.pxlimited.com

Located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, px Group’s Wyke Agrichemicals Manufacturing Plant site is one of the UK’s leading crop protection manufacturing facilities and an important part of px Group’s Chemical division. The site manufactures and supplies products that help farmers protect crops and produce more from the land.

Wyke is a Top Tier COMAH site, operating a complex chemical manufacturing environment where safety, reliability and operational excellence are fundamental to everything we do. With a skilled workforce across manufacturing, engineering, laboratory, supply chain and support functions, the site offers the opportunity to work alongside experienced professionals in a highly technical environment

The Opportunity

We are now recruiting for a Reliability Engineer

As a Reliability Engineer at our Wyke site, you will play a critical role in improving asset reliability and plant performance. Working across engineering, maintenance, and operations, you’ll identify failures before they occur, lead root cause analysis, and deliver practical, high-impact reliability improvements across site.

This is a highly hands-on role combining field-based condition monitoring with data analysis, offering the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact on an ageing plant environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver reliability improvement initiatives and small CAPEX projects.
  • Own and enhance the site condition monitoring programme (vibration, oil analysis, thermography & ultrasound)
  • Analyse condition monitoring data and convert insights into actionable maintenance plans.
  • Drive continuous improvement through troubleshooting guides, SOPs, and defect elimination strategies.
  • Work closely with maintenance, planners, and operations teams to ensure corrective actions are executed effectively.
  • Optimise maintenance strategies / plans aligned to equipment condition.
  • Identify risks, including abnormal operating conditions and compliance considerations such as ATEX.

Minimum Requirements

We’re looking for a proactive, hands-on engineer with a strong reliability mindset and a passion for continuous improvement.

You’ll bring:

  • Proven experience applying RCM or FMECA-based maintenance strategies in an industrial environment.
  • Vibration Analysis CAT I / CAT II certification, or demonstrable experience analysing vibration spectra
  • Strong hands-on experience with plant equipment such as pumps, motors, and gearboxes
  • Experience using CMMS and reliability systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Machine Sentry)
  • Ability to interpret condition monitoring data and translate it into effective maintenance actions.
  • A structured approach to root cause analysis and defect elimination
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

  • An engineering apprenticeship or degree in a relevant discipline
  • Broader experience across condition monitoring techniques (e.g. thermography, oil analysis, ultrasound , motion amplification)
  • A mindset focused on continuous improvement, accountability and collaboration.

What you will receive from us

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

A boosted pension scheme – we’ll match 1.25% to every 1% you pay (up to 8%)

Simply Health Cash Plan

Staff Meals

Onsite parking

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note this role may close early or be extended depending on the volume of applications.

px Group

About px Group

px Group is a fully integrated infrastructure solutions business which delivers net zero and stakeholder success through elite performance in the safety, availability, reliability and efficiency of energy infrastructure, industrial processes and related commercial activities - unlocking value for our customers as a trusted partner. Part of the Ara Partners portfolio of companies, Ara Partners is a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments.

Operating on a 24/7 basis, providing services at this level requires professionalism and competence coupled with a safety and environmentally conscious mind set to deliver operational excellence.

This capability has been shaped by a 25 year history in managing, operating and maintaining some of Europe’s most significant industrial infrastructure including two of the UK’s largest and most strategic gas processing facilities.

px Group also owns Saltend Chemicals Park at the heart of the UK’s Energy Estuary in the Humber, home to several world-leading manufacturing businesses such as Mitsubishi Chemicals, INEOS, and Vivergo Fuels and the location for Equinor’s hydrogen production plant with carbon capture, the anchor project for Zero Carbon Humber. This introduction of hydrogen at our Saltend Park, and our continuous search with all current and new industrial users for further synergies in energy and resource use will help to transform the park into a future proof Green Energy Park.

We are committed to the Energy Transition, and reducing emissions across all our operations, including the sites we manage and operate on behalf of our clients. We are growing internationally and are involved in some of the newest flagship waste-to-fuels projects including ReNew’s plastic recycling plant in Teesside and GIDARA Energy’s advanced biofuels facility in Amsterdam which will convert non-recyclable waste into bio-methanol.

Industry
Oil, Gas & Mining
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Stockton On Tees, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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