Job Description

Job Title: Reliability Engineering Manager
Location: Dallas, TX (on-site)

About the Role:
A national food & beverage manufacturer is looking for a hands-on leader to build and run its reliability engineering function. You’ll lead a team of reliability engineers working to raise equipment uptime, lift OEE, and lower maintenance spend at the plant and across the company. You’ll work closely with the maintenance, utilities, wastewater, and engineering leaders. Everything happens in a food-safe, OSHA-compliant production environment.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage and develop a team of reliability engineers, setting priorities and building a culture of data-driven continuous improvement
• Create and carry out reliability roadmaps that cut unplanned downtime and lower total maintenance cost
• Raise OEE across processing lines, packaging equipment, and plant utilities using proven reliability methods and analytics
• Lead root cause and failure analysis on chronic equipment and production problems, and follow corrective actions through to closure
• Work with maintenance leadership to improve PM and PdM strategies, task frequencies, and schedules
• Run reliability projects end to end: scope, plan, execute, close out, and verify that the gains hold
• Build and own reliability KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance, OEE, downtime) and report progress to plant and company leadership
• Share best practices across sites and help rank improvement opportunities by expected impact
• Act as the technical escalation point for maintenance and operations on difficult equipment problems
• Design training paths and career progression for maintenance technicians, reliability engineers, and maintenance/engineering leaders
• Keep up with emerging reliability tools and technologies
• Respond to equipment emergencies when needed, including outside normal hours
• Make sure all work meets food safety, food quality, and OSHA requirements

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Reliability Engineering
• 10+ years in reliability engineering, industrial maintenance, and/or project engineering, with a strong continuous improvement background (Lean, Six Sigma, or TPM)
• 5+ years managing and mentoring reliability engineers, maintenance professionals, and technicians
• 5+ years of industrial controls programming, ideally Allen-Bradley/Rockwell (ControlLogix, Studio 5000)
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt
• CMRP and/or CRE certification
• Working command of FMEA, RCM, DoE, and PdM technologies (vibration, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasound)
• A track record of root cause investigations that eliminated repeat failures
• Strong communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior leadership and influencing cross-functional teams
• Advanced Excel skills, including add-ins for data analysis and visualization

Nice to Have:

• Food, beverage, dairy, or other CPG manufacturing experience (high-speed filling and packaging, CIP, HTST, ammonia refrigeration)
• Multi-site or corporate reliability program experience
• Experience with a CMMS (SAP PM, Maximo, or similar) and reliability analytics tools
• Familiarity with SQF/FSMA and GMP requirements