Full-Time

Reliability Engineer

Posted on 2/21/2026

Sanimax

Sanimax

501-1,000 employees

Reclaims agri-food by-products into ingredients

No salary listed

Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

Green Bay, WI, USA

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Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Requirements
  • Mechanical Engineer or similar degree preferred
  • 5 years of experience as a reliability or plant engineer
  • Knowledge of IT guide or other CMMS
Responsibilities
  • Efficient use of the Guide TI system and other computer applications.
  • Incorporate the three-year maintenance plan into the prioritization to improve asset reliability.
  • Identify knowledge gaps and future skills needs.
  • Use external references to identify current best practices and influence maintenance and reliability strategy.
  • Develop and maintain asset risk criticality ranking and apply it to minimize these risks.
  • Identify and monitor indicators to measure asset performance (utilization, overall equipment efficiency, remaining life, reliability, etc.).
  • Determine whether the asset can deliver the desired performance; otherwise, identify and implement appropriate strategies.
  • Develop strategies to improve the performance and reliability of assets.
  • Provide solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems affecting operations (root cause analysis (CBA), reliability-based maintenance (MBF) and failure mode, effects, and consequences analysis (FMEA).
  • Review and resolve production losses and abnormally high maintenance costs per asset.
  • Be involved in the design and installation phases of projects aimed at acquiring new assets and modifying existing ones.
  • Focus efforts to ensure the reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, services, and facilities.
  • Design, develop, monitor, and refine maintenance strategies based on asset performance.
  • Provide technical assistance to inspect refurbished equipment and evaluate the performance of the supplier(s) involved.
  • Review mean time to repair (MTR) and mean time between failure (MTBF) results to identify opportunities for improvement to the maintenance program and service and make these improvements.
  • Conduct life cycle costing analyses on new, problematic, and aging assets.
  • Review work order history and other technical files to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Provide the necessary technical assistance to maintenance personnel for the execution of the work.
  • Present an action plan to target the most problematic assets.
  • Hold monthly meetings with the equipment reliability team for breakage analysis.
  • Manage reliability projects.
  • Write equipment health checks for essential equipment.

Sanimax collects organic waste from agri-food by-products, such as used cooking oil, meat by-products, and on-farm deadstock, from over 25,000 clients across the Americas. Through rendering, it converts these materials into industrial ingredients used in animal nutrition and agriculture. The company operates its own logistics network to create a stable supply chain and uses sustainability measures like biofiltration to reduce environmental impact. Sanimax differentiates itself by being family-owned with a large, nationwide collection footprint and by repurposing waste at scale to support a circular economy. Its goal is to turn millions of tons of by-products that would otherwise go to landfills into useful resources, helping reduce waste and promote greener manufacturing in the agri-food sector.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Montreal, Canada

Founded

1939

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What believers are saying

  • Sanimax serves over 40,000 clients with specialized grease trap cleaning.
  • Sanimax produces proteins, greases, oils for pet food and renewable fuels.
  • Sanimax's family-owned model spans 85 years of rendering expertise.

What critics are saying

  • Darling Ingredients outcompetes Sanimax in rendering volume within 12-24 months.
  • Tyson Foods erodes Sanimax's contracts via integrated rendering in 6-12 months.
  • EPA methane rules force Sanimax's $100M+ retrofits at 15 facilities in 6-12 months.

What makes Sanimax unique

  • Sanimax processes over 2 million tons of organic materials annually across Americas.
  • Sanimax deploys biofiltration to control odors at rendering facilities.
  • Sanimax invested in Entosystem's $58 million round for insect proteins.

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