Senior Reliability Engineer — Multi-Mill Network

Greif, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive core benefits

Paid time off

Local benefits for eligible colleagues

Short-term incentive eligibility

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Greif, Inc. is seeking a Division Reliability Engineer to improve equipment reliability and maintenance performance across our Sustainable Fiber Solutions mill network in the United States.

You will lead reliability initiatives and partner with Maintenance, Engineering, and Operations teams at six mills to reduce unplanned downtime and raise maintenance standards. The role requires hands-on reliability expertise, data-driven problem-solving, and the ability to travel regularly to supported mill

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 12+ years of relevant engineering, reliability, or industrial maintenance experience.
• Proven reliability engineering experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, root cause analysis, equipment criticality, condition monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with CMMS/EAM systems and maintenance work processes.
• Strong technical understanding of mechanical and electrical systems, industrial instrumentation, and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support reliability improvement plans across multiple manufacturing facilities.
• Analyze downtime, maintenance, and equipment performance data to identify recurring failures and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with site teams to troubleshoot chronic equipment issues, determine root causes, and implement sustainable corrective actions.
• Strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment criticality, condition monitoring, lubrication, and outage planning practices.
• Develop reliability KPIs, reports, and dashboards to track performance and prioritize improvements.
• Support CMMS/EAM systems and maintenance work processes, including preventive maintenance, asset data, failure coding, reporting, and data quality.
• Lead reliability assessments, Root Cause Problem Solving activities, and follow-up improvement plans.
• Provide hands‑on reliability and troubleshooting support at mill locations when needed.
• Develop and share reliability standards, tools, training, and best practices across the mill network.
• Evaluate reliability technologies and support equipment upgrade, replacement, and capital planning decisions.

Skills

Root Cause Analysis

Preventive Maintenance

Predictive Maintenance

Condition Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Reliability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

CMMS/EAM

Job description

Greif, Inc. is seeking a Division Reliability Engineer to improve equipment reliability and maintenance performance across our Sustainable Fiber Solutions mill network in the United States.

You will lead reliability initiatives and partner with Maintenance, Engineering, and Operations teams at six mills to reduce unplanned downtime and raise maintenance standards. The role requires hands-on reliability expertise, data-driven problem-solving, and the ability to travel regularly to supported mill