📍 Plymouth (PL6 Estover)
💷 £45,200– £50,900 dependent on experience
🎁 + £5,000 Welcome Bonus, Performance Bonus & Exceptional Benefits
⏰ Shifts: 40 Hours Mon-Fri: 7.00am-3:30pm
🌟 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 Technician to join our vital factory team and play a key role in supporting site development and delivering the master plan. You will manage day-to-day electrical issues across the factory, working within FMOS processes to support departmental targets and overall business priorities.
This role focuses on driving continuous improvement of plant electrical systems, maintaining standards, managing obsolescence, and delivering effective root cause solutions. You’ll help improve equipment reliability, availability, and safety to world-class levels.
Working closely with Production TLs, you’ll ensure maintenance and production priorities are aligned to achieve factory performance goals.
⭐ What’s in it for you?
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
Advanced technical skills, typically gained through a combination of relevant education (e.g. HNC in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering), job-related training, and significant hands-on experience
Strong electrical systems experience and PLC programming and fault finding
Commitment to continuous learning and professional development and the Ability to support project engineering to ensure maintainability and lifecycle reliability
Experience developing equipment and process specifications
Basic project management skills within engineering/reliability projects
Working knowledge of AutoCAD (or similar)
Robotic experience (beneficial)
🔧 Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with Production and Maintenance teams to identify, track, and resolve breakdown and reliability issues
Attend FMOS meetings, taking ownership of electrical and controls-related actions and root cause solutions
Drive continuous improvement through plant enhancements and effective root cause analysis
Review and optimise planned maintenance schedules to improve reliability and performance
Provide technical support, including equipment performance standards and repair specifications
Maintain accurate documentation, reports, and project updates in line with team processes
Coordinate with engineering, operations, and external partners, while supporting knowledge sharing and training within the team
🌍 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
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