Job Description:
We are seeking a highly professional and self-motivated Reliability Engineer to drive operational excellence at our Tomah, WI facility. In this role, you'll take ownership of multiple areas of the factory, focusing on breakdown correction, comprehensive breakdown assessments, and planned maintenance to optimize site reliability.
Along with factory floor support, you will own the site's storeroom responsibilities, managing critical spare parts, inventory, and materials support. This position will also play a key supporting role in the implementation of Progressive Maintenance (PM) programs, collaborating closely with the broader team to roll out these initiatives. This is an exceptional opportunity for a proactive technical professional with basic leadership capabilities to help champion a strong reliability culture on the shop floor.
What Are We Looking For?
To succeed in this role, you should possess a strong foundation in maintenance systems, exceptional organizational and digital skills, and the ability to communicate and lead effectively.
Required Experience & Qualifications:
- Technical Background: 1–3 years of experience in a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturing environment, specifically within a technical or maintenance department.
- Education & Experience: A Bachelor’s degree is preferred, but an equivalent level of hands-on Reliability experience and proven leadership capabilities is highly valued and essential.
Key Skills & Attributes:
- Solid Maintenance & Reliability Focus: A strong understanding of breakdown analysis, defect elimination, and progressive maintenance strategies.
- Strong Office & Systems Literacy: Highly proficient in navigating complex software. You must have the ability to work independently with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), presentation software, purchasing systems, and other enterprise tools.
- Basic Leadership & Initiative: A proven self-starter with basic experience (4–6 months) coordinating, organizing, or leading the work of others.
- Excellent Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with operators, technical teams, and contractors.
What Will Be Your Key Responsibilities?
- Storeroom Management & Ownership: Direct and manage the site’s technical storeroom, ensuring optimized spare parts inventory, accurate stock levels, and seamless materials availability for maintenance activities.
- Breakdown Resolution: Ensure the rapid and effective completion of all equipment breakdown repairs, proactively escalating unresolved technical deviations.
- Drive Reliability: Continuously improve equipment reliability, quality, and overall performance through the structured deployment of Progressive Maintenance programs.
- Culture & Coaching: Coach peers and operations team members to elevate their technical capabilities, actively championing a proactive Reliability Culture.
- Defect Elimination: Lead thorough root-cause investigations to eliminate recurring equipment defects and escalate issues when engineering support is required.
- Administrative Excellence: Accurately complete and manage critical documentation regarding safety, quality, and contractor management.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with diverse and talented associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
- Find out more about what Mars can offer you by visiting our Global Careers site.
Skills Required
- 1-3 years of experience in an FMCG manufacturing environment within a technical or maintenance department
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent hands-on reliability experience
- Strong understanding of breakdown analysis, defect elimination, and Progressive Maintenance strategies
- Proficiency using CMMS, presentation software, purchasing systems, and other enterprise tools
- 4-6 months of experience coordinating, organizing, or leading the work of others
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
