Site Reliability & Engineering Manager

Site Reliability & Engineering Manager

At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don't hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.

We're everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren't buzzwords, they're expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands:
Jack Link's®, Lorissa's™ Organic Snacks, Golden Island®, BiFi®, Peperami®, and KOOEE!® to name a few, there's nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participant in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it.

Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that's full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.

Real Meat Protein. Real People. Real Results. THAT is Link Snacks.

The Site Reliability & Engineering Manager is the senior technical leader for the Minong facility, responsible for maintenance, reliability, facilities, utilities, and site engineering support. This role provides strategic leadership to ensure safe, dependable, compliant, and cost-effective operations while supporting long-term plant performance and growth.

A key focus of this position is building a strong reliability culture through Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), predictive maintenance, asset lifecycle management, disciplined CMMS execution, and development of a high-performing technical team across a multi-shift operation.

This role also serves as the primary site partner to Corporate Engineering, supporting capital planning, project execution, commissioning, startup readiness, maintenance integration, documentation, training, spare parts planning, and long-term asset ownership.

Annual Salary: $135k - $138K

Generous Relocation Package

Great Benefits and Bonus Potential

DIRECT REPORTS:
Yes

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (Essential Job Functions)

Leadership & Culture

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing maintenance, reliability, and engineering organization.
• Build a culture focused on safety, food safety, reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Develop supervisors, planners, coordinators, technicians, and technical specialists through coaching and performance management.
• Partner with Operations, Quality, Safety, Supply Chain, HR, and Corporate Engineering as a member of the Plant Leadership Team.

Reliability Strategy & Asset Management

• Develop and execute the site's reliability strategy to improve uptime, asset performance, and total cost of ownership.
• Lead RCM, equipment criticality assessments, FMEA, RCFA, corrective actions, and asset lifecycle planning.
• Expand predictive and condition-based maintenance programs, including vibration, thermography, ultrasound, lubrication, and related technologies.
• Reduce reactive maintenance while increasing planned, preventive, and predictive work.

Maintenance Operations & CMMS Leadership

• Lead maintenance operations supporting packaging, processing, smokehouses, utilities, facilities, and related plant assets.
• Own and continuously improve the Somax CMMS system, including work order execution, planning, scheduling, closure, and documentation.
• Drive schedule compliance, backlog management, PM completion, maintenance productivity, and standardization of task lists, job plans, BOMs, and asset records.

Engineering Leadership & Technical Support

• Serve as the facility's primary engineering and technical resource.
• Evaluate equipment performance, process constraints, utility systems, and manufacturing opportunities to improve safety, quality, reliability, and throughput.
• Lead technical problem-solving for complex equipment failures, chronic…