Reliability Engineering Manager
McCain Foods · Burley, ID
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Reliability
- Base pay
- $82k–$109k
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Food & beverage
- Posted
- 9 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management reliability role at McCain Foods (food & beverage) in Burley, ID.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Base pay
- $82k–$109k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in Idaho: typical posted base $82k–$109k. This one lists $82k–$109k.
Median of the low and high ends of 3 live postings that list pay, out of 10 reliability engineer openings in Idaho, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Idaho plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 9 other live reliability postings in Idaho.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 3+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 40%
- EHS / safety 30%
- Root cause 30%
- DOE 30%
- Automation 20%
- SolidWorks 20%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
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This plant: McCain Foods in Burley
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Full description from McCain FoodsAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
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.
About the role .
This role is responsible for overall leadership of reliability and individual skills development programs. This includes the overall development of the maintenance team in regards to basic fundamentals of safety, mechanical, electrical, pneumatics, and specific machine maintenance training. Leads the Autonomous Maintenance function within MDI. The Talent Development Supervisor will report to this position, along with the maintenance planners, condition based maintenance team, motor rebuild, and cutter rebuild mechanics. The Reliability Engineering Manager works independently or as team member to assess, design, train and implement preventive maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM) and reliability continuous improvement programs.
What you’ll be doing.
- •Effectively partners with mechanics, project engineers and managers in determining and carrying out the best maintenance practices for equipment reliability and total cost of ownership
- •Maintenance Planning and Scheduling for CRR, B1, B2, B3, B&R, Facilities. and Palletizing
- •Condition Based Maintenance Programs (Development of Condition Inspection and Reliability Programs) (Lubrication, Vibration, Ultrasound, Infrared, etc.)
- •Drives Talent Acquisition & Talent Development
- •Manages RFCA Process, Bad Actors, & Reliability Projects
- •Reliability Capital Project Support
- •Maintain effective relationships with peers, direct staff, and hourly personnel
- •Take timely and effective actions to control unfavorable expenditure trends
- •Identify and exploit opportunities to improve MTTR and MTBF, monitor downtime, department KPI’s, and trends
- •Follow the McCain safety, loss prevention and environmental programs by holding themselves and all team members accountable to its tenets
- •Maintain environmental compliance by ensuring all equipment is adequately maintained and operating to design specifications
- •Develop housekeeping practices to obtain world-class standards
- •Communicate to inform, engage and inspire. Emphasizes communications as a tool to build collaboration and ensure organizational alignment
What you’ll need to be successful.
- •Education: Associates, Bachelor’s Degree, and/or proven experience in a related field is desirable.
- •Experience : Five to ten years’ experience in a maintenance supervisory role, preferably in a food-processing environment is essential.
- •Must possess a general working knowledge of all factory operations including raw product systems, processing, packaging, palletizing, freezing, steam generation, instrumentation, etc.
- •Administrative and computer skills would be very beneficial in this position.
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.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being 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. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail 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.
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