Reliability Engineer

About the role

At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, 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. The Reliability Engineer is responsible for evaluating and analyzing equipment, software systems, and processes to prevent failures, performing reliability testing such as FMEA and RCA. Serves as the expert in identifying and mitigating risks that can affect asset reliability. The primary function is to reduce the costs associated with asset downtime by implementing an excellent life cycle asset management plan. They determine the risks that can cause equipment to fail and outline the financial and production risks associated with these asset failures. They work to minimize downtime, reduce maintenance costs, and improve overall product performance and safety.

Responsibilities

• Conducting failure mode & effects analysis – Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) process to determine the potential causes of failure, typically on larger equipment or highly automated processes.
• Performing predictive analysis – Perform predictive analysis procedures to identify when and how failure might occur to help plan maintenance procedures and develop effective asset management processes.
• Planning performance evaluation assessments – Develops performance evaluation criteria and assessments for operational assets, outlining benchmarks for asset performance to ensure productive and safe operation. These assessments help plan proactive maintenance procedures to avoid complete asset failures.
• Developing and monitoring life cycle asset management plans – Develop plans that outline several stages of asset management procedures and ensure operational procedures conform to the processes outlined in the LCAM plan.
• Conducting root cause analysis & Fault Tree Analysis – Diagnose asset failures to ensure they don’t occur again through rigorous step-by-step procedures to identify faults in mechanical and electrical assets, including physical inspections and review of design, manufacturing, and assembly specifications.
• Developing proactive maintenance procedures – Collaborates with engineering and maintenance to plan a proactive maintenance approach to managing assets, aiming to prevent failures from occurring even if assets aren’t showing signs of failure (e.g., vibration analysis, oil analysis, IR scans).
• Monitoring overall equipment effectiveness & performance – Review overall equipment effectiveness to identify potential issues with manufacturing equipment, investigate assets contributing to poor OEE, and develop and monitor other key performance indicators not currently captured through MES systems.
• Provide technical input and guidance to phase 2 of projects including design for maintainability and operability, RAM and selection, procurement & FAT of incoming equipment.
• Handle other projects, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, industrial) or related field.
• 3+ years’ experience in manufacturing, production, or related industrial setting.
• Proven experience in automation, project management, and process improvement.

Qualifications

Preferred certifications:

• Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE).
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP).

Skills

• Strong understanding of engineering principles, statistical analysis, reliability modeling software, and failure analysis tools (FMEA, RCA, etc.).
• Experience with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical information to cross-functional teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills – ability to dissect complex systems, identify issues, and formulate effective resolutions.

Pay

The hiring range for this role is $80k–$90k annually. Actual wages will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, and candidate skill set and experience.

Benefits

Jack Link’s provides a variety of benefits to eligible Team Members, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Life and disability insurance.
• 401k participation.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.
• Annual incentive and program-specific awards.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to sit and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Plant/office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels.
• Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet/slippery floors.
• Travel may be required.