MAINTENANCE & RELIABILITY ENGINEERING JOBS

The Reliability Engineer is responsible for improving the reliability, maintainability, operational performance, food safety integrity, and lifecycle management of manufacturing assets across the facility. This role serves as the technical leader for failure elimination, asset health management, equipment-based food safety risk reduction, startup excellence, preventive maintenance optimization, and reliability improvement initiatives.

The Reliability Engineer works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Controls, FSQ, Sanitation, and Operational Excellence to improve asset performance, reduce losses, eliminate repeat failures, and increase operational stability.The Reliability Engineer is expected to spend significant time in production areas identifying equipment losses, validating root causes, and implementing sustainable corrective actions.

Asset Reliability Management Lead reliability efforts for critical manufacturing assets

Packaging Equipment

Material Handling Systems

Asset health monitoring

Failure trend analysis

Equipment criticality assessments

Failure Elimination Lead structured problem-solving for recurring failures.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Corrective action implementation

Asset Criticality Program Develop and maintain criticality rankings for all plant assets.

Critical Assets

Equipment impacting:

Food safety

Regulatory compliance

Develop risk-based maintenance strategies based on asset criticality.

Preventive Maintenance Optimization Evaluate and improve PM effectiveness.

Condition-based maintenance development

Predictive maintenance deployment

Food Safety & Quality Reliability Partner with FSQ to develop and maintain an Equipment-Based FSQ Prevention Program. Product Contact Equipment

Packaging Systems

Environmental Systems

Refrigeration

Develop controls that prevent food safety risks from equipment deterioration.

Support and improve startup performance across all assets. Startup failure analysis

Target:

~ Reliability Data Analysis

Analyze equipment performance data. Generate actionable recommendations based on data analysis.

Predictive Maintenance Program Support development and expansion of predictive maintenance initiatives.

Technologies may include:

Vibration analysis

Oil analysis

Motor circuit testing

Assist in identifying deteriorating equipment before failure occurs.

Asset Team Participation : Serve as technical reliability leader on Asset Teams.

Failure analysis

Reliability planning

Equipment risk assessment

Capital Planning Support : Support Engineering and Maintenance leadership in developing capital plans.

Obsolescence risks

FSQ risk reduction

Develop business cases and ROI analyses.

Controls and Automation Reliability : Partner with Controls Engineering to improve automation reliability.

Network reliability

PLC stability

Equipment performance

Equipment ownership

Although not a direct supervisory role, the Reliability Engineer is expected to influence and lead through technical expertise.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Reliability Metrics

Asset Performance

Maintenance Performance

Predictive maintenance effectiveness

Planned maintenance percentage

Food Safety

Equipment-related FSQ incidents

Foreign material events

Equipment-related quality deviations

Financial

Maintenance cost reduction

Reliability project ROI

Capital project effectiveness

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical discipline

• 3 + years manufacturing reliability experience
• Experience with industrial production equipment
• Root Cause Analysis
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Asset Criticality Analysis
• 7 + years manufacturing reliability experience
• Food manufacturing experience
• RTE manufacturing experience
• TPM implementation experience

~ SAP PM

• Power BI
• Vibration Analysis
• Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, and candidate skill set and experience. Link Snacks provides a variety of benefits to eligible Team Members, including medical, dental and vision benefits, life and disability insurance, 401k participation, paid holidays, and paid time off.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment is a plant/office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet/slippery floors. However, the vast amount of work is conducted in a climate-controlled office. Travel may be required.

Link Snacks provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by federal, state or local law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.