Reliability Engineer

RELIABILITY ENGINEER | PLASTICS MANUFACTURING

A growing plastics manufacturer is looking for a Reliability Engineer to help improve uptime, equipment performance, and maintenance systems inside a high-volume manufacturing operation.

This facility runs a process-driven environment with automated production equipment, material handling systems, utilities infrastructure, and continuous manufacturing processes. The team needs someone who can work directly with maintenance and operations to reduce downtime and improve long-term equipment reliability.

Production demand continues to increase, and the plant needs stronger ownership around preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, and asset reliability.

This role is focused on building a more proactive maintenance and reliability culture while helping stabilize day-to-day manufacturing performance.

• Drive reliability improvements across manufacturing and utility systems
• Lead root cause investigations tied to recurring downtime
• Improve preventive and predictive maintenance effectiveness
• Partner closely with maintenance and operations teams
• Analyze equipment failures and performance trends
• Improve uptime, OEE, and asset utilization
• Support spare parts strategy and critical equipment planning
• Help strengthen maintenance systems, reporting, and reliability processes

• Reliability engineering experience within plastics or industrial manufacturing
• Strong troubleshooting ability across mechanical and electrical equipment
• Experience reducing downtime in production environments
• Familiarity with preventive and predictive maintenance systems
• Comfortable spending significant time on the manufacturing floor
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills

• Base salary target: $100,000–$130,000 depending on experience
• High-visibility engineering role with operational impact
• Opportunity to help shape reliability systems within a growing manufacturing operation
• Strong exposure to manufacturing, maintenance, and process improvement initiatives

• Not a purely reactive maintenance position
• Not a corporate engineering desk job
• Not heavily travel-focused
• Not ideal for candidates without hands-on manufacturing exposure

If you enjoy solving equipment reliability problems, improving manufacturing uptime, and working closely with plant operations, this could be a strong fit. Confidential conversations welcome.