Reliability Project Engineer - Food Manufacturing

Maker’s Pride, LLC; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 86,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

MET seeks a Project Engineer to lead maintenance and reliability programs across designated facilities, focusing on site-level execution and partnering with plant teams to improve uptime and efficiency.

You will apply reliability tools, support CMMS implementation, analyze performance data, and drive continuous improvement, including Lean and Six Sigma approaches, across multiple plants in a travel-intensive role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent; Industrial/Mechanical preferred.
• Minimum 3 years in food industry or equivalent cGMP environment; 3-5 years in engineering/reliability.
• Hands-on equipment reliability, maintenance practices and CI experience.

Responsibilities

• Implement corporate maintenance and reliability strategies across facilities.
• Support 3-5 plants to drive consistency in reliability practices.
• Identify and address equipment reliability gaps with plant teams.
• Execute reliability improvement initiatives including loss elimination and failure reduction.
• Travel to manufacturing sites regularly to ensure adherence to budget, schedule and deliverables.
• Support CMMS implementation, adoption, and data integrity at sites.
• Analyze performance data to identify trends and improvement opportunities; conduct root cause analyses.
• Provide training on reliability tools, CMMS usage, and best practices.
• Manage and execute reliability and maintenance projects from planning to completion.
• Track site-level reliability metrics and develop dashboards and action plans.
• Communicate progress and results to plant leadership and MET leadership.
• Assist in development of maintenance budgets and forecasting; identify cost savings.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Project management

Cross-functional communication

Influence without authority

Maintenance best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

CMMS

MS Office

AutoCAD

SMED

Job description

MET seeks a Project Engineer to lead maintenance and reliability programs across designated facilities, focusing on site-level execution and partnering with plant teams to improve uptime and efficiency.

You will apply reliability tools, support CMMS implementation, analyze performance data, and drive continuous improvement, including Lean and Six Sigma approaches, across multiple plants in a travel-intensive role.