Reliability Engineering Intern (January 2025 - December 2025)

Are you hungry to innovate? To do things differently? To work with a company that’s real, thoughtful and very forward-thinking?

Meet Riverside. We are an organic, better for you snack company, manufacturing award-winning, nutritious, allergen-free snacks.

Your kids know us as MadeGood, tasty school-safe snacks. Your buddies on the go grab our GOOD TO GO delicious and nutritious snacks.

And your pup begs for a Cookie Pal treat, our human-grade, vegan dog treats.

At Riverside, we make delicious snacks that are good in every way. From our ingredients to our manufacturing practices, we’ve raised every bar on every aspect.

We’re friendly and focused on creating foods that are good for you and good to the planet as well. Riverside Natural Foods is B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line, Zero Waste, and Canadian owned and operated.

Come work with a Canadian leader! We value teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, passion and fun.

You can learn more about us at

We continue to grow and today are looking for a committed, talented, star to join our team as our Reliability Engineering Co-op .

Please note that this co-op is for 12 months.

Position Summary / Objective :

The mandate of this position is to support Riverside’s Asset Management Reliability Program at multi- site locations. The goal of the program is to ensure equipment at Riverside operates at optimum efficiency and effectiveness by the implementation of Best-in-Class Asset Reliability Methods.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Demonstrate and Uphold Riverside’s Core Values.
• Understand and enforce Health and Safety policies and procedures.
• Understand and enforce Riverside’s Food Safety policies and procedures.
• Asset Management
• Support early asset management which is ensuring asset hierarchy, BOMs, and spare parts are developed in the CMMS on a timely manner.

Print and apply assets tagging.

• Manage and update asset data and key equipment manuals in the CMMS system.
• Support the maintenance planner and supervisors to build PM programs and review the data quality of completed work orders.
• Help develop KPIs and analytics for Reliability.
• Assist in the Continuous Improvement projects to increase equipment reliability.
• Assist the MRO team in spare parts management perform cycle counts / audits and tagging bins / parts in the shop.
• Support the Reliability Engineer to perform failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA).
• Documentation ManagementAssist in the SOPs and training documents in maintaining the CMMS in creating / updating AutoCAD drawings.

Assist in creating interlinked drawings for visual representation of the production floor.

• Other Duties (as required) :
• Collaborate with the Process Engineer to review the Downtime data history to identify trends and repeat events leading up to failures.
• Keeps the work atmosphere FUN by keeping it light and welcoming

Reporting Relationships

• Reports to the Reliability Engineer
• No direct reports

Education & Qualifications

• Engineering or related field student.
• 3rd year or up university student.
• Proven desire to learn and PASSION for technical fields.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and AutoCAD.
• Proficiency in Tableau is preferred.

Skills & Abilities

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Exceptional time management and organizational skills, self-starter with a high level of initiative and ADAPTABILITY
• TEAM player with a positive attitude
• Demonstrates HUMILITY throughout the company on a daily basis.
• Aptitude to exhibit, RESPECT and protect Riverside’s Core Values in a changing environment.

What We Offer :

• Immerse yourself in our comprehensive benefits program, with Riverside taking care of the costs!
• RRSP matching or IRA matching for an empowered financial journey
• Join Employee-Led Resource Groups (ERGs) championing mental health, sustainability, diversity, women, and LGBTQ+ rights
• Develop your career further through our Riverside University program and with our Tuition Reimbursement Program
• An open concept work environment that embodies our Values

How to Apply :

If you have the commitment to excellence, the energy, the attitude and experience we need, then please submit your resume to careers(AT) with the subject line Reliability Engineering Co-op or click the apply button!

Riverside Natural Foods is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you have a disability and require accommodation in the interview process, please let us know when you apply.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, due to volume, please note that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.