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About Cérélia Cérélia is a leading food manufacturing company with small-town roots.

We are dough and batter experts and proudly serve rolled dough, cookies, pancake and waffle products across Europe, Asia, and North America.

Cérélia’s products are commercialized under its clients’ brands, both retailers and industrial companies, as well as under its own brands: English Bay Bakery, JusRol, Croustipate, Jan, Pop!

Bakery and Crêapan in particular.

While we continue to grow and expand, our history of trade partnership, production excellence, well-founded innovation, and sustainable development is deeply rooted in more than 40 years of industry know-how.

About Cérélia Canada As part of the global Cérélia Group, headquartered in France, Cérélia Canada partners with major retailers and food brands to deliver high-quality, innovative products.

It is committed to food safety, product innovation, and continuous improvement, while fostering a collaborative and dynamic workplace for its employees.

Job Summary: The Procurement Manager is responsible for managing procurement and purchasing activities across raw The Maintenance Supervisor leads and oversees the maintenance of plant equipment, utilities, facilities, and grounds to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations.

The role is responsible for planning and executing preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities, prioritizing equipment breakdowns, and providing day-to-day leadership to the maintenance team.

Working closely with Production, Quality, Food Safety, Sanitation, and Engineering, the Maintenance Supervisor ensures equipment reliability, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and the protection of product quality and food safety.

The role requires strong mechanical and electrical knowledge, sound judgment, accountability, adaptability, and effective team leadership.

• Job Duties and Responsibilities (including but not limited to): 1.

Maintenance Operations and Technical Leadership Supervise, schedule, coach, and provide technical direction to maintenance employees and contractors across a multi-shift operation.

Plan and prioritize daily and weekly preventive, predictive, corrective, shutdown, and project work based on safety, food safety, equipment criticality, production requirements, and operational impact.

Provide technical leadership during equipment breakdowns, troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, automation, sensor, motor-control, PLC/HMI, conveyor, pump, gearbox, bearing, and drive-system issues.

Coordinate shift handovers and communicate equipment status, outstanding work, temporary repairs, safety and food safety concerns, and production priorities.

Ensure temporary repairs are risk-assessed, documented, communicated, monitored, and permanently corrected within an appropriate timeframe.

Assess whether maintenance work can be completed internally or requires OEM, contractor, or specialist support, and make recommendations to the Maintenance Manager.

Lead root cause analysis for significant or recurring equipment failures and implement corrective actions to improve reliability, maintainability, safety, sanitation, quality, and performance.

Coordinate planned downtime with Production and support equipment installation, commissioning, trials, new product launches, process changes, and capital projects.

• 2.

Maintenance Planning and Reliability Administer the CMMS, ensuring work orders are properly created, prioritized, assigned, completed, documented, and closed with relevant labour, parts, failure details, and follow-up actions.

Monitor preventive maintenance completion, overdue work, maintenance backlog, repeat failures, downtime, breakdown response, and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).

Recommend preventive maintenance frequencies and condition-based maintenance improvements using equipment history, performance data, and risk assessments.

Ensure required parts, tools, permits, manuals, and resources are available for planned work, and identify critical, obsolete, and long-lead spare-parts risks.

• 3.

Health, Safety, and Food Safety Compliance Conduct toolbox talks and safety meetings, ensuring identified deficiencies and corrective actions are documented, assigned, and completed.

Enforce Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), energy isolation, machine guarding, electrical safety, hot work, elevated work, confined space, contractor control, risk assessment, and work permit requirements.

Verify that guards, interlocks, emergency stops, sensors, and other protective devices are restored and functional before equipment is returned to service.

Ensure maintenance activities comply with GMP, SQF, HACCP, sanitation, allergen control, foreign material control, environmental, and occupational health and safety requirements.

Control maintenance tools, fasteners, blades, wires, parts, lubricants, and chemicals, ensuring approved food-grade materials are used where required.

Apply hygienic maintenance practices in product-exposure and food-contact areas, coordinating line release with Production, Quality, Food Safety, and Sanitation whenever maintenance activities may affect product safety or quality.

Ensure maintenance work areas and equipment are clean and free of tools, parts, debris, and maintenance materials before release to Production.

Maintain organized maintenance shops, parts storage areas, electrical rooms, and service spaces.

• 4.

Team Leadership and Administration Set clear work expectations and monitor employee performance in safety, quality, timeliness, and work completion.

Assess employee skills, identify training needs, provide coaching and feedback, and address performance concerns consistently.

Maintain accurate shift reports, maintenance logs, inspection records, equipment history, and training records.

Provide regular maintenance updates and communicate significant equipment issues, operational risks, and outstanding priorities to the Maintenance Manager.

Promote respectful cross-functional teamwork, equipment reliability, cost awareness, and continuous improvement.

Provide backup support to the Maintenance Manager when required and perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience: Post-secondary education in Industrial Maintenance, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Technology, Electromechanical Technology, or a related discipline is preferred.

Industrial Millwright (433A), Industrial Electrician (442A), or equivalent skilled-trade certification is preferred.

Minimum of five years of progressive industrial maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in food, bakery, beverage, pharmaceutical, consumer-packaged goods, or another regulated industry.

Three to five years of experience in maintenance leadership, supervision, lead-hand responsibilities, or an equivalent team leadership role.

Strong mechanical knowledge of conveyors, bearings, motors, drives, gearboxes, pumps, pneumatics, and hydraulics, with working knowledge of industrial electrical systems, controls, sensors, instrumentation, and safety circuits.

Ability to troubleshoot PLC-controlled equipment using PLC/HMI diagnostics; PLC programming experience is an asset.

Demonstrated experience planning and coordinating preventive and corrective maintenance, equipment breakdown response, shutdown activities, and maintenance coverage across multiple shifts.

Experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to manage work orders, preventive maintenance schedules, maintenance backlogs, equipment history, and spare-parts usage.

Strong root cause analysis, problem-solving, decision-making, planning, coaching, and organizational skills.

Working knowledge of Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), machine guarding, electrical safety, work permits, risk assessments, contractor management, GMP, SQF, HACCP, food safety, foreign material prevention, sanitation, and product quality requirements.

Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, and equipment reliability principles is preferred.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook, Excel, and Word, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and provide support during after-hours, weekends, holidays, and emergency maintenance situations as required.

Key Behavioural Competencies: • Communication • Accountability & Dependability • Result Focus • Safety and Food-Safety Leadership • Coaching and Employee Development • Attention to Detail • Teamwork • Planning and organizing • Time Management • Continuous Improvement • Adaptability & Flexibility • Quality Orientation • Technical Problem-Solving • Decision Making & Prioritization Working Conditions: Availability to work weekends, holidays, after-hours, overtime, and respond to emergency maintenance situations as required.

Work is performed in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment involving exposure to operating machinery, electrical systems, noise, ingredients, and cleaning chemicals.

Ability to work in hot, cold, refrigerated, wet, dusty, and variable environmental conditions while wearing required personal protective equipment (PPE).

Physical demands include frequent walking, prolonged standing, bending, climbing, crouching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and reaching.

Ability to safely lift and carry up to 50 lbs, using assistance or mechanical lifting equipment where required.

Work may involve accessing ladders, elevated platforms, confined spaces, and equipment interiors, subject to applicable training, authorization, and safety requirements.

Compensation & Benefits: Base salary Range: CAD $95,000 – $100,000 per year Comprehensive health and dental benefits Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer contribution/match Paid Time Off (PTO) We thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity.

However, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

We kindly request no telephone inquiries regarding the status of applications.

DISCLAIMER : Cérélia is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

If contacted for an employment opportunity or testing, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.

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