Reliability Engineer

Position Summary

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Reliability Engineer will lead and collaborate with cross‑functional, multidisciplinary teams to ensure systems, equipment, and processes operate consistently, efficiently, and safely. The role will focus on packaging efficiency improvement, maintenance cost improvement, process reengineering, and technology adaptation. The ideal candidate will demonstrate an ability to deliver cost savings, build strategic approaches, and exhibit strong leadership and communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.

• Help Plant Manager implement policies and programs to maximize yield, throughput, capacity, and ensure high quality and low costs.
• Deploy reliability strategy leading to world‑class value chain processes.
• Utilize KPIs to benchmark and drive continuous improvement strategies.
• Maintain the reliability and maintainability of equipment, systems, and processes. Key duties include:
  • Failure Analysis and Root Cause Investigation:
    Conduct FMEA and RCA to identify potential or recurring failures and implement corrective actions.
  • Maintenance Strategy Development:
    Support Maintenance Manager in designing and executing preventive, predictive, and reliability‑centered maintenance plans to optimize system uptime and predict failures.
  • Collaboration and cross‑functional support: work with engineering and maintenance teams to ensure new and existing systems/processes are reliable and optimized.
  • Establish reliability standards, procedures, and metrics to guide operations and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Set up, execute, and enforce departmental goals and procedures as per Plant Manager.
• Conduct insightful ad‑hoc analyses to investigate ongoing or one‑time operational issues.
• Coach, prepare, and provide daily, weekly, and monthly reviews and analysis of current processes using operational metrics and reports.
• Provide support and prepare data for weekly meetings and monthly operational review meetings.
• Work with plant manager and other managers to deliver operational KPIs and cost performance.
• Act as backup for production manager or maintenance manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, or reliability engineering; candidate may substitute five (5) years of relevant managerial experience in lieu of degree.
• Technical expertise in reliability engineering principles, maintenance management, statistical analysis, and reliability prediction software.
• Industry certifications such as CRE are a plus.
• Five (5) years of plant experience in food, agri‑service, pharmaceutical, or chemical industry; substituted experience requires total of ten (10) years of relevant experience.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience with LEAN, TPM, and Six Sigma is highly preferred.
• Experience in roles focused on downtime improvement, packaging efficiency, cost‑conscious focus, and leading improvement projects.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders to achieve close working relationships and openness.
• Strong communication skills to engage technical and non‑technical disciplines, production, engineering, maintenance personnel, and executives.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to function and multi‑task in a manufacturing environment.

The pay for this role in the state of New Jersey ranges from $99,000‑132,000 and is based on the position responsibilities and geographic location. Actual pay within this range may be determined based on a candidate’s experience, qualifications and/or other determining factors.

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