Manufacturing Reliability Engineer

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At Pepsi, we spread home-grown joy, in our special Pepsi Bottling Ventures way! Pepsi Bottling Ventures is the nation's largest private bottler and distributor of Pepsi beverages. Pepsi Bottling Ventures is based in NC, SC, MD, & DE.

Pepsi Bottling Ventures is seeking a Manufacturing Reliability Engineer to join our team.

We are jointly owned by Suntory and Pepsi Co. Suntory is a family-owned business founded in Japan more than 125 years ago that is known globally for their beverages and innovative spirit. Pepsi Co has a 125-year plus legacy as a global leader in convenient foods and beverages. We represent Suntory's non-alcoholic beverage industry in the United States and have an 80-year plus legacy of providing Pepsi Co products to the Carolinas and beyond.

We make, sell, and distribute Pepsi Co and other beverages. We do business in five states and sell Pepsi Co beverages to most of the market in our geographic regions. We also develop our own line of beverages, producing and distributing a growing product line nationally.

We bring you the beverages you love. We bring Pepsi Co's beloved beverages and more to you and our customers. As a part of Suntory, we believe in dreaming big and boldly pursuing our dreams, growing for good, and giving back to society. We innovate to create new beverages, like our Nature's Twist refreshing lemonade line, and we continuously expand our beverage portfolio to bring you and our customers joy.

We value integrity, teamwork, accountability, adaptability, and communication in all we do and expect from all team members. We'd love to receive your application and talk with you about your interest in the position if the overview below describes you.

The Manufacturing Reliability Engineer serves as the reliability subject matter expert for manufacturing operations, responsible for improving asset performance, eliminating chronic losses, and building sustainable reliability systems across PBV facilities. Operating in a high-speed, automated beverage manufacturing environment, this position functions as both a strategic architect and tactical problem solver. The role partners closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Continuous Improvement teams to maximize Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), reduce unplanned downtime, and improve asset reliability through Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), predictive maintenance technologies, Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), and standardized maintenance practices.

This position drives a proactive reliability culture by identifying risks before failures occur, implementing engineering solutions to recurring equipment issues, and leveraging data-driven asset management strategies to improve manufacturing performance.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain long-term asset health strategies for critical manufacturing equipment.
• Utilize CMMS, downtime, maintenance, and OEE data to perform Pareto analysis and identify the highest-impact reliability opportunities.
• Prioritize engineering resources toward chronic failure modes and production bottlenecks that materially impact plant performance.
• Own and track reliability KPIs including MTBF, MTTR, PM Compliance, OEE Availability, and downtime reduction.
• Develop reliability improvement plans based on equipment performance and asset health trends.

• Design, implement, and continuously improve Reliability-Centered Maintenance programs across manufacturing assets.
• Lead initiatives that transition facilities from reactive maintenance practices toward predictive and preventive maintenance strategies.
• Establish standard reliability methodologies, workflows, and governance processes across PBV operations.

• Lead reliability knowledge-sharing efforts across PBV facilities.
• Drive replication of successful corrective actions, engineering improvements, and maintenance best practices.
• Eliminate recurring equipment failures through sustainable defect elimination processes.

• Serve as the reliability engineering representative for capital projects and equipment installations.
• Review equipment specifications and designs to ensure maintainability and reliability requirements are incorporated.
• Support FAT, SAT, commissioning, and startup activities for new equipment.
• Ensure maintenance plans, spare parts strategies, and reliability standards are established before equipment turnover.

• Facilitate Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) activities with cross-functional teams.
• Identify equipment vulnerabilities and develop mitigation plans to reduce operational risk.
• Implement strategies that prevent catastrophic failures and production interruptions.

• Lead implementation and expansion of predictive…