Reliability Engineer

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats, PEBBLES, Grape-Nuts and Malt-O-Meal cereal and Peter Pan peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray Nutrish, Kibbles ’n Bits and 9

Lives dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. The company is committed to high standards of quality and values and aims to make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit  and follow us on Linked In or Facebook for the latest news.

Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company s largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you ll be helping to produce iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895.

The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city s Cereal Festival, The Post Foundation, and participating in several volunteer events throughout the year.

About the Role

At Post Consumer Brands, reliability is more than preventing downtime; it’s building a smarter, more resilient operation. As a Reliability Engineer, you’ll be the go-to partner for maintenance and operations, using data plus hands-on mechanical understanding to spot risk early, prioritize the right work, and strengthen equipment performance day after day.

You’ll blend in-the-trenches maintenance knowledge with proactive reliability practices, turning breakdown learnings into prevention, and translating condition insights into action.

Key Responsibilities

• Use equipment health and performance data to identify issues early, recommend fixes, and help teams prioritize the most impactful work.
• Partner with maintenance/operations to reduce repeat failures through root cause problem solving and continuous improvement habits.
• Support daily/weekly execution by contributing to the maintenance plan and schedule (including routine reporting and prioritization inputs).
• Leverage asset/CMMS tools to turn information into clear, practical decisions for the floor.
• Apply and promote condition-based reliability thinking to drive uptime and stability.
• Serve as an owner/champion for reliability priorities within assigned areas—helping teams understand current condition, what good looks like, and what to tackle next.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering preferred, but we’re casting a wide net for the right problem-solver. This could be a traditional engineer, or a seasoned maintenance professional ready to step into a reliability-focused role.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment with strong mechanical understanding; food manufacturing exposure is a plus.
• Typically 5+ years in maintenance systems, reliability/asset health work, or maintenance supervision/leadership.
• Data-oriented and process-minded—able to justify priorities with evidence and communicate recommendations clearly.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and solutions-driven (you identify problems, build a plan, and drive it to completion).
• Comfortable collaborating across functions—working with trades, engineers, and operations to solve problems together.
• This is an individual contributor role.

• Make your handprint visible. You’ll be trusted to run with meaningful work—not stuck in meetings all day—and you’ll see the results of your improvements on the floor.
• Big company opportunity. Small company attitude. You’ll have strong resources behind you, plus the flexibility and ownership to do your best work.
• Cross-functional impact. Work side-by-side with maintenance, process engineering, operations, and other partners to improve how the plant runs.
• Growth runway. This role can…