Senior Maintenance Manager

We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Senior Manager, Maintenance and Technical Services to join a high-performing operations team in Calgary, Alberta. Reporting directly to the Director, Operations, this role is responsible for leading the maintenance function within a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ensuring the reliable operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of plant equipment and infrastructure.

The Senior Manager, Maintenance and Technical Services will oversee the delivery of predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance programs to maximize equipment uptime, operational efficiency, and asset reliability. This position plays a key leadership role in supporting production targets while ensuring compliance with health & safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory standards.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical expertise with strategic leadership, reliability engineering principles, and project management capabilities. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on maintenance leader who thrives in a data-driven manufacturing environment and is passionate about continuous improvement, operational excellence, and developing high-performing maintenance teams.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership to the maintenance team, to align with national maintenance program(s) and ensures efficient day-to-day operation of the facility and all equipment.
• Apply a variety of prescribed practices to identify and manage Asset Reliability risks, that could cause stoppages and adversely affect plant or business operations.
• Leads and directs Equipment Criticality Assessments, Critical Spares Analyses, and Failure Root Cause Analyses.
• Leads and directs ‘Fact Based’ and ‘Data Driven’ decision making through the effective utilization of Root Cause Analysis, Total Productive Maintenance/Autonomous Maintenance, Reliability-Centered Maintenance, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety, Life Cycle Asset Management and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.
• Provides subject matter expertise on new equipment purchases to ensure maintainability and reliability.
• Key contributor for new equipment selection, Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) and reliability metrics during the commissioning process.
• Champions and drives asset standardization throughout the facility.
• Supports the development and execution of the annual CAPEX program.
• Develop standard processes for corrective action plans that improve asset care.
• Champions the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and implements improvements and upgrades to ensure efficient and effective use of resources.
• Promotes safety and a safe work environment for all employees/contractors.
• Provides technical expertise and leadership to improve the Predictive and Condition Based maintenance activities.
• Improve MRO inventory control through cycle counting and the identification of critical spare parts.
• Establish reliability & work planning metrics/KPI's to monitor performance & improvement Planned Maintenance/Corrective Maintenance (PM/CM) ratio, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), etc..
• Foster a team environment to fully support the objectives of plant operations, using various metrics to measure maintenance performance, continuous improvement, and asset reliability.
• Incorporate continuous improvement feedback into the maintenance planning and execution strategy.
• Utilize lifecycle cost analysis (LCA) for decision making and evaluation of rebuild vs replacement alternatives. on assets.
• Ensure compliance with HACCP, BRCGS regulations, and GMP’s are adhered to and maintain all relevant documentation.

Requirements

• Five years of experience as a Maintenance Manager.
• Four years of food manufacturing industry experience.
• Engineering Degree or Engineering Technologist Diploma (mechanical/industrial/electrical)
• Professional Engineer designation would be an asset (P. Eng.).
• Maintenance Management Professional (MMP) certification an asset.
• Certified Asset Management Professional designation an asset (PEMAC).
• Mechanical Millwright 433A or Industrial Electrician 442A trade experience is preferred.
• Minimum five years Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) experience.
• Self-motivated and passionate individual, who has a high sense of urgency, thrives with a wide variety of work, and can deliver consistent results on multiple priorities.
• Working knowledge of ammonia plant operations
• Strong project management skills
• Must have excellent computer skills, proficient in MS Office, Excel.

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