Senior Manager, Maintenance
About The Position
The Senior Maintenance Manager is responsible for leading all maintenance, reliability, utilities, asset care, and technical services functions for the Brampton Manufacturing Facility, the largest facility within the Coca Cola Canada Network. The role is accountable for maximizing equipment reliability, plant availability, safety, and maintenance effectiveness while developing technical capability across maintenance and operations teams. This position provides strategic leadership for maintenance operations, reliability engineering, utilities management, maintenance planning, capital execution support, and continuous improvement initiatives. The Senior Maintenance Manager drives a proactive maintenance culture focused on safety, equipment ownership, loss elimination, and operational excellence. Responsibilities align with maintenance leadership structures and utilities management roles documented within the Brampton manufacturing organization. The Sr. Maintenance Manager will be reporting to the Plant Manager based out of our Brampton facility. This position will be a pipeline for our future Plant Manager vacancy! This is a primarily Mon to Friday position, but as this role leads a 24/7 Maintenance Department out of hours working will be required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Industrial Technology, Manufacturing, or related discipline.
- 8+ years of progressive maintenance leadership experience in manufacturing.
- 5+ years leading large maintenance organizations in a unionized environment.
- Strong background in TPM, Reliability Engineering, Asset Care, and Continuous Improvement.
Nice To Haves
- Professional Engineering designation considered an asset.
- Experience in beverage, food, consumer packaged goods, or automated manufacturing environments preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the site maintenance and asset reliability strategy.
- Lead maintenance managers, planners, supervisors, trades, contractors, and technical specialists.
- Drive preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs.
- Establish reliability-centered maintenance practices to improve equipment uptime and lifecycle performance.
- Lead major equipment failure investigations and root cause analysis activities.
- Ensure effective spare parts management and maintenance planning systems.
- Partner with Operations to maximize USLE/OEE, throughput, quality, and asset utilization.
- Reduce unplanned downtime through structured loss elimination programs.
- Support commissioning, startup, and optimization of new equipment and technologies.
- Provide technical leadership on critical manufacturing systems including fillers, packaging equipment, process systems, utilities, and automation.
- Lead, coach, and develop maintenance managers, supervisors, engineers, planners, and skilled trades personnel.
- Build technical capability, succession plans, and leadership pipelines.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Manage labor relations within a unionized environment.
- Oversee performance of critical utilities systems including boilers, compressors, ammonia refrigeration, electrical distribution, water treatment, wastewater systems, and building infrastructure.
- Champion a Zero is possible culture across maintenance and contractor activities.
- Ensure compliance with all regulatory and company requirements, including OHSA, TSSA, GMP, HACCP, environmental, and food safety standards.
- Lead contractor safety management and permit-to-work processes.
- Ensure effective execution of LOTO, confined space, electrical safety, and other critical risk programs.
- Champion Continuous Improvement Focus leveraging lean six sigma methodologies.
- Drive Planned Maintenance and support Autonomous Maintenance initiatives.
- Utilize data, KPIs, and structured problem-solving methodologies to eliminate losses.
- Lead maintenance cost reduction and productivity improvement initiatives.
- Support development and execution of capital investment plans, including Project Canopy, the introduction of a new fully automated can line at the Brampton Facility.
- Ensure maintainability, reliability, and lifecycle considerations are incorporated into new equipment and facility projects.
- Participate in major expansion, automation, and modernization initiatives.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Access to retirement and saving programs
- Family and employee assistance program
- Paid vacation and floater days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
