Maintenance Engineer: Reliability, PM & ODR Leader

Golden State Foods; California (MO); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Golden State Foods is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to enhance equipment reliability and optimize maintenance strategies. The role works with operations and maintenance teams to maximize plant performance, safety, and cost efficiency.

You will lead maintenance planning, scheduling, and breakdown elimination, developing reliability dashboards and coaching on operator-driven reliability across the site.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or significant relevant experience.
• Minimum 3 years as maintenance or production supervisor, preferably in TPM/IWS environments.
• Participation in daily directional setting (DDS) / Operational Reviews from floor to plant level.
• ODR(AM)/PM pillar experience preferred; knowledge of ODR steps 0-3 and PM steps 1 and 2.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute maintenance activities within two Daily Management Systems (MP&S and BDE).
• Own maintenance plans for zones, ensuring PMs, equipment ranking, PM execution and tracking.
• Develop reliability metrics and dashboards (MTBF, MTTR, OEE) to monitor performance.
• Coach and develop equipment standards including PMs, CLs, CIL and DH.
• Lead ODR steps 0-3 training and build floor capability to sustain improvements.
• Identify chronic issues via data-driven analyses and drive standard improvements.
• Ensure safety, quality and food safety issues are resolved promptly.
• Participate in and coach Operational Reviews (shiftly, daily, weekly, monthly).

Skills

Maintenance planning

Equipment reliability

Root cause analysis

Data analysis

ODR/AM leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Golden State Foods is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to enhance equipment reliability and optimize maintenance strategies. The role works with operations and maintenance teams to maximize plant performance, safety, and cost efficiency.

You will lead maintenance planning, scheduling, and breakdown elimination, developing reliability dashboards and coaching on operator-driven reliability across the site.