Reliability Engineer

Ready to be part of something special?
Join our Family!
Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Assess losses throughout the plant and create a strategic plan to improve asset capability and reliability.
• Develops engineering solutions to address repetitive failures that negatively impact plant performance and/or end customer satisfaction.
• Utilize root cause analysis, FMEA, criticality analysis and other lean tools to address problems on equipment critical to plant success.
• Collaborate across departments to create breakdown priority lists to ensure that equipment issues are resolved in alignment with plant requirements.
• Review and edit of existing PM programs to ensure that all necessary parts are captured. and service matches both OEM recommendations and past equipment performance.
• Assist in planning and execution of capital projects; typically, $50,000 or less.
• Investigates and implements solutions to drive culture of continuous improvement, more specifically focused around TPM methodology.
• Create and manage department metrics related to equipment reliability (ie mean time between failures, meantime between repairs etc.)
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Computer skills are a must, with knowledge of MS Outlook, MS Work, MS Excel, and MS Powerpoint.
• Must have the ability to work effectively with computerized maintenance manager systems (CMMS) and instruct others on its operation.
• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing to present complex topics in a concise manner, strong interpersonal skills, essential in dealing with people at all levels and in a variety of functions including technical staff, business team leaders, union personnel and be able to influence and motivate others to quickly achieve results.
• Ability to work in a diverse team environment including interactions with technical staff, administrative staff and business team leaders. Ability to build partnerships across and between functional groups and lead a project team when necessary.
• Must be able to work extended hours, weekends as needed, especially when problems occur or when deadlines must be met.
• Demonstrate skills in time management and managing multiple priorities. Critical thinking skills and ability to constructively resolve conflict.
• Maintenance planning and scheduling experiences required.
• Project management experience preferred.

Education and Training

• Engineering degree, or related degree
• Six Sigma and Lean Training.

Equal Employment Opportunity: B&G Foods is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please see
Equal Employment Opportunity:
B&G Foods is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please see