Maintenance Reliability Engineer, Food Manufacturing; Gloucester, MA

If you've spent years keeping production lines running and you're ready to stop fighting fires and start preventing them, this role was built for you.

A well-established, iconic food manufacturing company north of Boston is adding a Maintenance Reliability Engineer to their plant maintenance team. You'll lead the shift from reactive and preventive maintenance toward a data-driven predictive program, with real authority to drive change on the plant floor.

Pave Talent is hiring on behalf of our client, one of America's most recognized names in the food industry, headquartered in Gloucester, MA. This is a company with deep roots, a loyal workforce, and a maintenance team that takes real pride in keeping a high-volume production facility running at peak performance. They invest in their people, including mileage reimbursement for candidates who come on-site.

You'll sit within the plant maintenance team, working closely with production, sanitation, and engineering groups. This is a high-priority role for the maintenance leadership team, sitting alongside the Maintenance Coordinator as one of two key hires this year.

The hiring manager is looking for someone who thinks differently, someone who can see through the noise of daily maintenance demands and identify the systemic improvements that actually move the needle on uptime and efficiency.

• Lead a Root Cause Analysis team through problem identification and corrective action execution to reduce downtime
• Audit existing preventive maintenance practices and establish metrics to measure their effectiveness
• Drive the transition from reactive and preventive maintenance to a predictive, data-driven program using machine operational data
• Provide engineering drawings for fabrication of parts related to process improvements and spare parts
• Re-engineer components for optimization or fabrication
• Interface with equipment manufacturers to implement engineered process improvements and ensure equipment reliability
• Identify and manage capital projects tied to plant operational improvements or equipment replacement
• Support the Project Engineering team on capital projects and new production line implementations

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Electrical Engineering (chemical engineering is not a fit for this role)
• Minimum 5 years of experience in an industrial manufacturing environment
• Minimum 2 years of reliability, maintenance, or industrial engineering experience
• Experience with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Strong critical thinking and mechanical problem‑solving skills
• Food or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry background
• CAD experience (Solid Works or AutoCAD preferred)
• Candidates without a bachelor's degree but with 10‑15 years of hands‑on reliability experience will be considered; experience can outweigh academic credentials

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