Reliability Engineer

At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

The Reliability Engineer is based at the Totowa, NJ plant and reports directly to the Manager, Maintenance. This role is responsible for improving equipment uptime, reducing operational costs, strengthening food safety compliance, and supporting overall plant productivity. The position delivers measurable value through reduced downtime, improved OEE, lower waste, and extended asset life, while enabling advanced predictive maintenance and long-term operational stability.

Essential Functions

• Improve equipment reliability and uptime by applying structured methodologies such as Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), predictive and condition‑based maintenance, and preventive maintenance optimization.
• Develop and implement data‑driven maintenance strategies that reduce total maintenance costs and improve asset performance. This includes optimizing PM intervals, analyzing failure patterns, establishing spare‑parts thresholds, standardizing lubrication practices, and supporting component rebuild programs.
• Drive reliability‑centered improvements that eliminate chronic losses, remove production bottlenecks, and ensure equipment operates at designed capacity to support improved OEE, reduced waste, and extended asset life.
• Lead investigations into equipment failures and recurring issues, ensuring corrective and preventive actions are identified, implemented, and sustained to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate closely with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Quality teams to ensure reliability initiatives support food safety, regulatory compliance, and overall plant performance.
• Monitor and analyze equipment performance data, using CMMS, downtime tracking, and predictive technologies to identify trends, prioritize work, and recommend long‑term reliability solutions.
• Use SAP-APM Asset Performance Management software as a data-driven tool for analytics to optimize the reliability, availability, and efficiency of physical assets.
• Support the development of predictive maintenance capabilities, including vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis, and other condition‑monitoring tools to proactively identify equipment degradation.
• Champion continuous improvement by recommending and implementing best practices, new technologies, and process enhancements that strengthen long‑term operational stability.
• Maintain clear and consistent communication with cross‑functional teams to ensure alignment on priorities, progress, and reliability‑related findings.
• Adapt to evolving business needs, recognizing that duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or new tasks may be assigned at any time to support plant operations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or related field) preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in reliability, maintenance engineering, or related manufacturing roles.
• Experience with FMEA, RCA, predictive maintenance technologies, and CMMS systems.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.

• Knowledge of food manufacturing or regulated environments is a plus.
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude, focusing on the customer, teamwork, and quality productivity.  

Working Environment

• Manufacturing plant is large, open floor areas with loud machinery, requiring some areas for workers to wear ear protection to guard against noise.
• Workers may be exposed to elevated temperatures during the summer months; and some work may be required in cold environments during winter months.
• Workers are required to wear GMP compliant hair and beard nets, company-provided uniforms, and gloves to protect the product from possible contamination. Certain areas require respirators.
• In this position, you may be exposed to common airborne or surface food allergens—including, but not limited to, wheat, soy, eggs, dairy, and sesame—during the handling, mixing, storage, transport of materials, or when accessing the production floor.

Physical Requirements

• Sits, Stands, Walks, Kneels, and Bends frequently.
• Frequently uses hand/finger dexterity for typing.
• Reaches above and below the shoulders.
• Corrected vision, speaking ability, and hearing are usually involved in performing written and verbal job functions.

• Frequently lift 25 pounds.

Our offer

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, performance, location and business or organizational needs. The base salary range for this role is $96,120 to $124,500. In addition, we offer:

• Variable bonus potential
• Paid time off, including company holidays
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401K with company match
• Education assistance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

About Corbion

Corbion is a sustainable ingredients company dedicated to preserving what matters, including food and food production, health, and the planet. We specialize in lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, food preservation solutions, functional blends, and algae ingredients, using our deep application and product knowledge to propel nature’s ingenuity through science. With more than a century of experience, we continue working side-by-side with our customers to make our cutting-edge technologies work for them. Leveraging our advanced capabilities in fermentation and preservation technology, we help customers differentiate their products in diverse markets ranging from food and animal nutrition to home & personal care, pharmaceuticals, electronics, medical devices, and bioplastics. In 2025, Corbion generated annual sales of € 1,267.4 million with a workforce of 2,408 FTEs. Corbion is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. For more information:  www.corbion.com

Corbion is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace.  All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, handicapping condition, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.

Corbion provides reasonable accommodation to applicants.

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled

Corbion does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. All candidates must be submitted by approved Corbion vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Talent Acquisition team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Corbion Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the Corbion Talent Acquisition Team.