The Reliability Engineer will optimize production processes, enhance machinery reliability, drive safety culture, and manage maintenance strategies at McCain Foods.
Position Title: Reliability Engineer
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Carberry
Requisition ID: 36911
Reliability Engineer
Carberry, Manitoba
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
All potatoes are not created equal. We should know. We're McCain Foods: the world's largest producer of frozen French fries and a leader in quality food products around the globe. In all we do, we strive to be the very best and maintain our commitment to quality, value and convenience. The same is true of our people. We seek only the best. If you are at the top of your game and share our sense of responsibility to the community, believe strongly in the values of honesty, integrity and fairness, and you seek a healthy environment in which to grow and succeed; you may be just the spud we're looking for. Come grow with us.
About the role.
McCain Foods (Canada) has an immediate opening for a Reliability Engineer at our Carberry, Manitoba Food Processing Plant. Under the direction of the Maintenance and Engineering Manager, the successful applicant will be responsible for making the production and maintenance process as efficient and standardized as possible. The Reliability Engineer's goal is to use critical thinking and engineering techniques to drive root-cause analysis and practical problem-solving techniques to optimize production and maintenance processes, reduce downtime, ensure collaboration between all departments and drive results within the manufacturing facility.
What you'll be doing.
The Reliability Engineer oversees all facets of ensuring the factory is operating safely and reliably. Together with other technical experts, the reliability engineer will create, implement, and execute programs to drive reduction in downtime, increase machine availability, strengthen current maintenance and production practices and drive a reliable culture.
Responsibilities and Duties:
What you'll need to be successful.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
#LI-KM1
Compensation Package : $69,700.00 - $93,000.00 CAD annually + bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits : At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Engineering & Technical
Division: NA Potato Manufacturing
Department: Carberry Potato Maintenance
Location(s): CA - Canada : Manitoba : Carberry
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Position Location: Carberry
Requisition ID: 36911
Reliability Engineer
Carberry, Manitoba
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
All potatoes are not created equal. We should know. We're McCain Foods: the world's largest producer of frozen French fries and a leader in quality food products around the globe. In all we do, we strive to be the very best and maintain our commitment to quality, value and convenience. The same is true of our people. We seek only the best. If you are at the top of your game and share our sense of responsibility to the community, believe strongly in the values of honesty, integrity and fairness, and you seek a healthy environment in which to grow and succeed; you may be just the spud we're looking for. Come grow with us.
About the role.
McCain Foods (Canada) has an immediate opening for a Reliability Engineer at our Carberry, Manitoba Food Processing Plant. Under the direction of the Maintenance and Engineering Manager, the successful applicant will be responsible for making the production and maintenance process as efficient and standardized as possible. The Reliability Engineer's goal is to use critical thinking and engineering techniques to drive root-cause analysis and practical problem-solving techniques to optimize production and maintenance processes, reduce downtime, ensure collaboration between all departments and drive results within the manufacturing facility.
What you'll be doing.
The Reliability Engineer oversees all facets of ensuring the factory is operating safely and reliably. Together with other technical experts, the reliability engineer will create, implement, and execute programs to drive reduction in downtime, increase machine availability, strengthen current maintenance and production practices and drive a reliable culture.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Supports the safety program(s) and departmental safety requests
- Able to foster, develop and maintain a strong safety culture
- Follow the McCain safety, loss prevention and environmental programs by holding themselves and all team members accountable to its tenets
- Manage or assist with Capital Projects
- Lead and maintain the Asset Criticality Ranking and equipment lifecycle strategies
- Assists Maintenance Manager with reliability analysis of new designs to determine system, asset and component reliability
- Make specific recommendations to the Maintenance Management Team to improve machinery performance and reliability based on analysis of process and failure data
- Maintain and report on reliability KPI's (% worker utilization, % schedule adherence, etc.) in conformance with McCain (MP&S) standards
- Direct and lead the maintenance of a record keeping system consistent with a world class reliability program
- Responsible for performing statistical analysis on machinery failure data and work order data to determine whether adjustments to the Engineered Maintenance Strategy are warranted and perform cost/benefit analysis to set correct frequency of task(s)
- Leads the Root Cause Failure Analysis effort for sporadic equipment failures and ensure failure modes addressed are appropriate
- Leads the Root Cause Failure Analysis for any safety related equipment incidents
- Supervision of contracted services within the factory/facility as required
- Liaison with corporate support for project management initiatives
- As a member of the maintenance leadership team at the facility, participate in the continuous improvement process. This includes taking an active role in process improvement initiatives, employee training, and upgrading your current skill base.
- Support and identify training opportunities/activities for the Maintenance Department
- Completes and submits required reports in a timely manner
- Provide periodic reports and maintain records of downtime events
- Support OEE for all equipment and building systems
- Perform additional duties as assigned
What you'll need to be successful.
- Education: minimum Undergraduate degree in Engineering required
- Can communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in written work
- Strong technical expertise and problem-solving skills
- Strong analytical skills (e.g. root cause analysis and statistical analysis)
- Displays vision and demonstrates both personal and organizational sensitivity
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics and computer-generated reports
- Solid understanding of proactive maintenance systems as well as continuous improvement strategies included in the lean manufacturing model
- Technical knowledge of production equipment, electrical systems, PLCs, pumps, hydraulics, pneumatics, maintenance, and construction priorities is preferred but not required
- Knowledge and experience leading and improving vibration analysis, thermography, lubrication analysis and other predictive maintenance and analytic solutions to help improve plant reliability
- Results-oriented, team player with critical thinking abilities, communication skills, as well as strong problem-solving abilities
- Strong computer skills
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you'll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we're better together.
#LI-KM1
Compensation Package : $69,700.00 - $93,000.00 CAD annually + bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.
Benefits : At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person's needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we're here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work - and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain's Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy , as applicable. You can understand how your personal information is being handled here .
Job Family: Engineering & Technical
Division: NA Potato Manufacturing
Department: Carberry Potato Maintenance
Location(s): CA - Canada : Manitoba : Carberry
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
Top Skills
Engineering Principles
Hydraulics
Plcs
Pneumatics
Predictive Maintenance
Statistical Analysis
What you need to know about the Ottawa Tech Scene
The capital city of Canada and the nation's fourth-largest urban area, Ottawa has proven a rapidly growing global tech hub. With over 1,800 tech companies, many of which are leaders in their sectors, the city's tech talent now makes up more than 13 percent of its total workforce. This growth is driven not only by the big players like UL Solutions and Dropbox, but also by a thriving startup ecosystem, as new businesses emerge to follow in the footsteps of those that came before them.
