{"id":3178295,"url":"https://alion.io/job/jack-links-site-reliability-engineering-manager","title":"Site Reliability & Engineering Manager","company":{"id":7170,"name":"Jack Link's","domain":"jacklinks.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/jacklinks","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":17,"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Minong, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":135000,"max":140000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":140000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"FMEA","optional":false},{"name":"GMP","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-23T16:55:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-23","last_verified_at":"2026-10-25T11:25:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"At Link Snacks, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.\nWe’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands: Jack Link’s®, Lorissa’s™ Organic Snacks, Golden Island®, BiFi®, Peperami® and KOOEE!® to name a few, there’s nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it.\nDominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.\nReal Meat Protein. Real People. Real Results. THAT is Link Snacks.\n JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY\nThe Site Reliability & Engineering Manager is the senior technical leader for the Minong facility, responsible for maintenance, reliability, facilities, utilities, and site engineering support. This role provides strategic leadership to ensure safe, dependable, compliant, and cost-effective operations while supporting long-term plant performance and growth.\nA key focus of this position is building a strong reliability culture through Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), predictive maintenance, asset lifecycle management, disciplined CMMS execution, and development of a high-performing technical team across a multi-shift operation.\nThis role also serves as the primary site partner to Corporate Engineering, supporting capital planning, project execution, commissioning, startup readiness, maintenance integration, documentation, training, spare parts planning, and long-term asset ownership.\nAnnual Salary: $135k - $140K\nGenerous Relocation Package\nGreat Benefits and Bonus Potential\nDIRECT REPORTS: Yes\nDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (Essential Job Functions)\nLeadership & Culture\nLead, coach, and develop a high-performing maintenance, reliability, and engineering organization.\nBuild a culture focused on safety, food safety, reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.\nDevelop supervisors, planners, coordinators, technicians, and technical specialists through coaching and performance management.\nPartner with Operations, Quality, Safety, Supply Chain, HR, and Corporate Engineering as a member of the Plant Leadership Team.\nReliability Strategy & Asset Management\nDevelop and execute the site's reliability strategy to improve uptime, asset performance, and total cost of ownership.\nLead RCM, equipment criticality assessments, FMEA, RCFA, corrective actions, and asset lifecycle planning.\nExpand predictive and condition-based maintenance programs, including vibration, thermography, ultrasound, lubrication, and related technologies.\nReduce reactive maintenance while increasing planned, preventive, and predictive work.\nMaintenance Operations & CMMS Leadership\nLead maintenance operations supporting packaging, processing, smokehouses, utilities, facilities, and related plant assets.\nOwn and continuously improve the Somax CMMS system, including work order execution, planning, scheduling, closure, and documentation.\nDrive schedule compliance, backlog management, PM completion, maintenance productivity, and standardization of task lists, job plans, BOMs, and asset records.\nEngineering Leadership & Technical Support\nServe as the facility's primary engineering and technical resource.\nEvaluate equipment performance, process constraints, utility systems, and manufacturing opportunities to improve safety, quality, reliability, and throughput.\nLead technical problem-solving for complex equipment failures, chronic reliability issues, equipment selection, system modifications, and facility upgrades.\nSupport implementation of new technologies, automation solutions, productivity initiatives, and plant optimization efforts.\nCapital Projects & Corporate Engineering Partnership\nFunction as the primary site partner for Corporate Engineering initiatives, capital planning, and project prioritization.\nCoordinate site resources for equipment installations, facility upgrades, utility improvements, and capital projects.\nEnsure project designs address food safety, operator safety, reliability, maintainability, sanitation, and operational requirements.\nLead site commissioning, startup, equipment acceptance, operational readiness, and transition to sustainable ownership.\nDevelop maintenance strategies, spare parts plans, PM programs, training, and technical documentation for new assets.\nFacilities, Utilities & Infrastructure\nLead reliability and maintenance of facility infrastructure, buildings, grounds, and utility systems.\nEnsure reliable operation of compressed air, boilers, refrigeration, wastewater, HVAC, electrical distribution, and other critical services.\nDevelop long-term facility and infrastructure improvement plans and coordinate supporting vendor and contractor activities.\nFood Safety, Regulatory & Environmental Compliance\nEnsure maintenance and engineering activities comply with USDA, HACCP, GMP, SSOP, OSHA, LOTO, machine guarding, environmental, and company food safety requirements.\nPromote sanitary maintenance practices, hygienic equipment design, and elimination of maintenance-related food safety risks.\nSupport audits, regulatory inspections, and corrective action programs in partnership with Food Safety & Quality.\nBudget Management & Cost Control\nDevelop and manage annual maintenance, reliability, facility, and utility-related budgets.\nMonitor labor, parts, contractor, utility, and facility expenditures while identifying cost-saving opportunities.\nSupport capital budget development, project justification, and effective use of maintenance resources.\nVendor, Contractor & Materials Management\nManage contractor selection, performance, safety compliance, service quality, and site requirement adherence.\nOversee spare parts strategy, storeroom optimization, supplier partnerships, and vendor agreements that support reliability, safety, and cost objectives.\nPerformance Management & Continuous Improvement\nEstablish and manage maintenance and reliability KPIs, including uptime, schedule compliance, PM completion, backlog health, MTBF, MTTR, repeat failures, predictive maintenance compliance, cost performance, and contractor performance.\nUse data analytics and reliability metrics to identify opportunities and lead cross-functional improvement initiatives.\n REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, Maintenance Management, Operations Management, or related technical field preferred; equivalent technical training and progressive leadership experience will be considered.\nExperience\n8+ years of progressive maintenance, reliability, engineering, or manufacturing leadership experience.\n5+ years managing maintenance, engineering, reliability, or technical teams in a multi-shift manufacturing environment.\nFood manufacturing or other highly regulated manufacturing experience preferred.\nDemonstrated success with RCM, predictive maintenance, TPM, CMMS, asset management, capital projects, and cross-functional leadership.\nREQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES\nTechnical\nStrong knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, automation, utility, and industrial control systems.\nAbility to interpret schematics, drawings, P&IDs, OEM documentation, and technical data.\nStrong understanding of asset management, reliability engineering, RCA, FMEA, and failure elimination methods.\nLeadership\nProven ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold technical teams accountable.\nStrong conflict resolution, decision-making, and reliability culture-building skills.\nBusiness & Project Management\nStrong budgeting, financial management, contractor/vendor management, and project execution capabilities.\nAbility to manage competing priorities, lead cross-functional teams, and influence without direct authority.\nCommunication & Strategic Thinking\nExcellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical information for technical and non-technical audiences.\nStrategic, analytical, and problem-solving mindset with the ability to align reliability initiatives to business objectives.\n PHYSICAL DEMANDS:\nThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nWhile performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.\nWORK ENVIRONMENT:\nThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors. Travel may be required.\nEqual Employment Opportunity Employer\nJack Link's is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nE-Verify\nJack Link's provides the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new Team Member’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, we are required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment. We do not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants or to re-verify current employees and may not limit or influence the choice of documents presented for use on the Form I-9. In order to determine whether Form I-9 documentation is valid, we use E-Verify’s photo screening tool to match the photograph appearing on some permanent resident and employment authorization cards with the official U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) photograph. 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