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Senior Manager, Maintenance for our Peterborough, Ontario plant, a key site for juice and dairy manufacturing. In this role, you will lead a maintenance and reliability strategy, ensure compliance across critical systems, and drive improvements that reduce downtime and elevate performance. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, leadership capability, and a passion for building team competence and efficiency in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Position-Related Duties and Key Responsibilities- Lead the development and execution of a multi-year maintenance and reliability strategy for the site, including alignment on capital project priorities.
- Drive preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize uptime of process, packaging, utilities, and building systems.
- Build technical capability across maintenance teams through structured coaching, mentoring, and skills development programs.
- Partner with production, quality, safety, and warehouse teams to deliver operational improvements that meet site performance and compliance targets.
- Ensure regulatory and internal compliance with systems including ammonia refrigeration, wastewater treatment, utilities, TSSA, CFIA, and KORE standards.
- Oversee the planning and allocation of resources for maintenance activities, spare parts management, and contractor coordination to ensure efficiency and continuity of operations.
- Utilize analytical tools to track the Department's KPIs, identify failure modes, and implement corrective actions to minimize unplanned downtime.
- Serve as the site Subject Matter Expert for maintenance processes, engineering change control, and technical upgrades, ensuring smooth integration of new systems or technologies.
- Support the execution of capital projects by collaborating with corporate engineering and on-site project teams.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement by initiating focused improvement projects for safety, quality, and operational reliability.
- Act as a key partner in internal and external audits, driving ownership of findings and corrective actions to ensure sustained compliance.
- Communicate progress against maintenance KPIs, cost metrics, and reliability performance to stakeholders, delivering insights that inform operational decisions.
- Ensure safe work practices across all maintenance operations while fostering sustainable maintenance approaches aligned with corporate sustainability goals.
- Provide leadership and direction for on-site troubleshooting during complex technical issues across systems such as process automation, utilities, and building infrastructure.
Education and Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or a similar Engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in similar industrial maintenance positions, including leadership roles with strategic responsibility.
- Advanced knowledge of refrigeration systems (including ammonia), wastewater treatment, and critical utilities operations.
- Expertise in maintenance and engineering compliance standards for food manufacturing, including ISO, GMP, HACCP, and CFIA guidelines.
- Proven experience managing site preventive and predictive maintenance programs leveraging modern CMMS platforms such as SAP.
- Solid technical background in troubleshooting processing and packaging machinery/equipment, utilities, and automation systems (PLC, SCADA, HMI).
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks for safety, environmental, and electrical compliance in Canada; knowledge of CSA and TSSA codes and standards is highly desirable.
- Ability to interpret and modify technical drawings, P&ID diagrams, and engineering schematics for troubleshooting and process improvement.
- Strong analytical and data literacy skills to leverage equipment performance data and reliability metrics for decision-making.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional collaboration and managing external contractors in a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and team leadership skills with the ability to build engagement and capability within a diverse workforce.
What We Offer- Provide a critical leadership role where you will shape maintenance excellence in a high-performing manufacturing environment.
- Ensure access to advanced technologies, tools, and corporate support to deliver sustainable reliability improvements.
- Enable professional development and technical growth through continuous learning opportunities and cross-functional project involvement.
- Empower you to impact site performance directly by driving efficiency, compliance, and safety across the plant.
Skills:Pay Range:Canada: 134,800 - 151,900 CAD
Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:15
Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Location(s):Canada
City/Cities:Peterborough
Travel Required:00% - 25%
Relocation Provided:No
Job Posting End Date:October 16, 2026
