Senior Manager, Maintenance and Reliability Engineering
Role Overview
Reports to the Director, Operations and manages engineering and maintenance services for operations.
Accountable for equipment reliability and functionality, uptime, productivity, and short- and long-term operational plans.
Oversees predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance while supporting cost, health and safety, environmental, quality, and human resources objectives.
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Position Summary
Reports to the Director, Operations and manages engineering and maintenance services for operations.
Accountable for equipment reliability and functionality, uptime, productivity, and short- and long-term operational plans.
Oversees predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance while supporting cost, health and safety, environmental, quality, and human resources objectives.
Maintenance Leadership and Reliability
- Leads the maintenance team, aligns work with national maintenance programs, and supports efficient daily facility and equipment operations.
- Identifies and manages asset reliability risks that could cause stoppages or adversely affect plant or business operations.
- Leads equipment criticality assessments, critical spares analyses, and failure root cause analyses.
- Uses RCA, TPM/AM, RCM, RAMS, LCAM, and FMEA to support fact-based, data-driven decisions.
- Provides expertise on equipment purchases and contributes to equipment selection, factory acceptance tests, and reliability metrics during commissioning.
- Champions facility-wide asset standardization and supports the annual CAPEX program.
- Develops corrective-action processes to improve asset care and champions CMMS improvements and upgrades.
- Provides technical leadership for predictive and condition-based maintenance activities.
- Improves MRO inventory control through cycle counting and critical spare-parts identification.
- Establishes reliability and work-planning KPIs, including PM/CM ratio, MTBF, and MTTR, and uses metrics for improvement.
- Incorporates continuous-improvement feedback into maintenance planning and execution; uses lifecycle cost analysis to assess rebuild versus replacement.
- Promotes workplace safety and ensures HACCP, BRCGS, and GMP compliance and relevant documentation.
Requirements
- At least five years of maintenance management experience and at least five years of CMMS experience.
- Engineering degree or engineering technologist diploma in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering.
- Working knowledge of ammonia plant operations; strong project management skills; excellent computer skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office and Excel.
- P.Eng., MMP, and Certified Asset Management Professional (PEMAC) designations are assets.
- Mechanical Millwright 433A or Industrial Electrician 442A trade experience is preferred.
- Self-motivated and passionate, with urgency, adaptability across varied work, and consistent results across multiple priorities.
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