RELIABILITY & MECHANICAL ENGINEER

About the Role

The Carlisle Group (TCG) is seeking a Reliability & Mechanical Engineer to support reliability, optimization, and continuous improvement of equipment used in food ingredient manufacturing. This role involves close collaboration with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to enhance equipment performance, assist with capital projects, and ensure mechanical systems adhere to sanitary design and food safety standards. This position is suited for an engineer who thrives on resolving real-world manufacturing challenges, improving equipment performance, and working directly with production systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Improve reliability and performance of industrial production equipment including steam batch reactors, powder dryers, evaporators, heat exchangers, conveyors, and packaging systems.
• Design heating, cooling, and fluid-handling systems (steam, HX’s, pumps, piping) for cooking, drying, and transferring.
• Design building modifications, tank foundations, pipe chase / mounting systems, cat walks, etc. for structural approval and work with contractors to ensure specifications are followed.
• Troubleshoot mechanical failures and lead root cause analysis to reduce downtime.
• Support capital improvement projects including equipment specification, vendor coordination, installation, and commissioning.
• Develop and update mechanical drawings and documentation using tools such as AutoCAD.
• Partner with maintenance and operations teams to implement preventive and predictive maintenance improvements.
• Identify opportunities to increase throughput, improve efficiency, and reduce operational risk.
• Ensure equipment and designs meet regulatory and food safety standards from the Food and Drug Administration and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points.
• Collaborate with automation teams working with control platforms from companies such as Rockwell Automation.
• Provide flexible, cross-functional support to the engineering team, taking on a variety of technical and non-technical tasks as project needs evolve.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience in manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Experience troubleshooting and improving mechanical equipment.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with operations, maintenance, and engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with AutoCAD.
• Familiarity with Rockwell Automation control platforms.
• Knowledge of regulatory and food safety standards from the Food and Drug Administration and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in food, beverage, ingredient, pharmaceutical, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
• Familiarity with powder or bulk ingredient handling systems.
• Knowledge of sanitary equipment design.
• Lean manufacturing or Six Sigma experience.