Manufacturing Maintenance Manager

About the role

The Maintenance Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for the company's maintenance function, ensuring reliability, availability and efficient performance of production equipment and utilities in a regulated manufacturing environment.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and implement maintenance strategies aligned with production, quality, safety and business objectives.
• Lead preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance programmes to maximise equipment reliability and minimise downtime.
• Plan and coordinate annual maintenance schedules, shutdowns and activities with Production and Operations.
• Monitor key maintenance and reliability KPIs such as equipment availability, MTBF and MTTR.
• Lead breakdown response, root‑cause analysis and corrective actions for significant equipment failures.
• Manage, coach and develop the maintenance team, including manpower planning and performance management.
• Coordinate maintenance projects, equipment installations, upgrades and external contractors, ensuring safety, quality, budget and schedule compliance.
• Oversee reliability of critical plant utilities including electrical, refrigeration, compressed air and water systems.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronics or related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years progressive maintenance or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, with supervisory or managerial responsibility.
• Experience in high‑volume, regulated production such as food, beverage or FMCG.
• Proven ability to manage maintenance budgets, contractors, shutdowns and projects.
• Professional engineering registration or relevant certification is an asset.

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance practices.
• Expertise in mechanical, electrical, automation and refrigeration systems.
• Experience with plant utility systems (compressed air, water, electrical).
• Proficiency with CMMS/ERP systems, preferably Epicor.
• Root‑cause analysis and reliability engineering.
• Energy‑efficiency and asset‑optimization techniques.