Senior Maintenance Manager

JLL • Pitt Meadows, BC

4d • Onsite

About The Position

JLL is seeking a Senior Maintenance Manager to lead their site-based maintenance team. This role involves managing a team that includes a Maintenance Manager, Area Maintenance Managers, and maintenance technicians, reporting to the Regional Maintenance Manager. The primary focus is to maximize equipment uptime and execute maintenance and projects efficiently in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will be an expert in maintenance, workplace safety, and data-driven leadership, with a background in material handling equipment systems, packaging automation, distribution processes, and storage systems being a plus. This individual must be a self-starter capable of managing multiple complex projects, influencing stakeholders at all levels, and overseeing the maintenance acceptance of large-scale projects. The role requires providing technical leadership and mentoring to a maintenance team of at least 80 people.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Previous corporate and/or regional Maintenance roles leading 80 or more employees including salaried employees.
• Experience leading change and maintenance teams in multiple site environments.
• 7+ years’ experience managing employees and their performance.

Nice To Haves

• Strong communication, teambuilding, and influencing skills.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with high expectations.
• Thinks big!
• Proficient data analyst and new processes developer/adapter.
• Self-starter.
• Strong evidence of driving goals with minimal day-to-day supervision.
• Experienced in material handling equipment and large, complex integrated systems maintenance with strong statistical analysis skills.
• Strong knowledge and experience with the major MHE integrators.
• Exposure to Lean Concepts, TOC, layout design, cost/benefit analysis, labor productivity analysis (time studies, standardized work), safety/ergonomic/human factors.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Excel, AutoCAD, MS Project, and SQL.
• MBA or other Master’s degree and/or Six Sigma Black Belt Certification a plus.
• Professional engineering registration a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, mentor and manage site-based Maintenance Managers and Area Maintenance Manager in the North American Fulfilment Network.
• Develop Maintenance Department business plans and provide guidance and direction for the successful implementation of those plans.
• Develop and implement reliability plans that support increasing the uptime of the facility.
• Drive maintenance Best Practices: Innovate, document, improve work methods, standardize, provide a safe work environment and require safe work practices, train, commission equipment, collect, measure, and analyze key performance indicators to improve processes and improve customers experience.
• Offer guidance to senior leadership on maintenance and equipment end of life (EOL) issues using ROI, and other analytical techniques.
• Provide oversight for budget development and execution, and capital planning.
• Help manage vendor support and equipment relationships and leverage network size to maximize economies of scale.
• Provide monitoring, auditing and enforcement of maintenance execution, safe work practices, and institute and audit training drills across the network.
• Leverage the entire maintenance team for the benefit of the North American network.
• Develop and manage budget and contract documents including RFPs, change order controls, purchase orders, and invoicing.
• Provide Fulfilment Center General Managers with visibility over the Conduct of Maintenance in their Fulfilment Centers.
• Recruit, interview, and hire bar raising talent in the Maintenance Managers and Maintenance Area Manager roles.
• Help create a world-class Maintenance organization.
• Be willing and able to relocate.
• Travel up to 20% at a minimum.

Benefits

• JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.
• We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong.
• Our collaborative culture—locally and globally—drives innovative solutions.
• We value wellbeing, inclusivity, and belonging, ensuring every team member feels supported.
• JLL is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
• At JLL, we give you the opportunity, knowledge and tools to own your success, because we value what makes each of us unique.
• We help our people thrive, grow meaningful careers and find a place where they belong.
• Together, we strive to be exceptional and shape a better world.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior