Senior Reliability Controls Technician - Mars Wrigley

📍 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 Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 140,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.