Senior Manager, Maintenance.

About This Opportunity

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.

Responsibilities

Maintenance & Reliability Leadership
• 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.

Asset Performance & Manufacturing Support
• 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.

People Leadership
• 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.

Utilities & Infrastructure
• Oversee performance of critical utilities systems including boilers, compressors, ammonia refrigeration, electrical distribution, water treatment, wastewater systems, and building infrastructure.

Safety, Food Safety & Compliance
• 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.

Continuous Improvement
• 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.

Capital Projects & Technical Strategy
• 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.

Qualifications

Education
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Industrial Technology, Manufacturing, or related discipline.
• Professional Engineering designation considered an asset.
Experience
• 8+ years of progressive maintenance leadership experience in manufacturing.
• 5+ years leading large maintenance organizations in a unionized environment.
• Experience in beverage, food, consumer packaged goods, or automated manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong background in TPM, Reliability Engineering, Asset Care, and Continuous Improvement.

Why work with us?

• Join a local, family-owned business that’s part of a globally recognized brand, where you can develop your capabilities, competencies, and career.
• Coke Canada has a culture of learning, and we offer several channels to support your development, including on-the-job training and a library of free courses for just-in-time learning.
• We are committed to offering a comprehensive benefits package designed to help our employees achieve their best physical, mental, financial, and overall health and well-being. This includes a competitive compensation package, access to retirement and saving programs, family and employee assistance program, paid vacation and floater days.
• We have close, local connections with the communities in which we operate across Canada. We’re determined to make a positive difference in our communities; this includes opportunities for employee volunteerism.
• We’re building our business responsibly and our mission is to work Toward a Better Future Together. We have a plan that outlines how we are reducing, reusing, recycling, decreasing our carbon footprint, and using water responsibly. For more information visit cokecanada.com/sustainability/

Coke Canada has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Employers for Diversity, and we’re committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. Together we are creating a workplace culture that values diversity, enables inclusivity and ensures everyone feels like they belong. We are aiming to ensure our diverse workforce is reflective of the communities in which we operate. Research shows that women-identifying and other marginalized individuals often hesitate to apply unless they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If this role excites you, even if you don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply. Your unique experience and perspective could be what we’re looking for. Unless otherwise specified, this job post is for an existing vacancy. Our hiring process is human-driven and does not involve AI tools for screening, assessment, or selection. For individuals requiring accommodations or support throughout the recruitment process please call 1-844-383-2653 or email .