Maintenance Manager

Job Address: 35 Tantramar Crescent, Amherst, Nova Scotia, B4H 4J6 Wonderbrands, is a leading North American bakery (formerly Weston Foods, fresh and frozen businesses) with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads, artisan breads, and donuts. We are one of the largest bakeries in North America and makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. Wonderbrands, a division of FGF Brands, is unlocking an incredible opportunity for growth through a focus on production innovation capabilities, through a leading edge supply chain practice and investing deeply in communities where we bake. This role will be working in our Amherst bakery in Nova Scotia. The Maintenance Manager will be responsible for providing overall leadership and direction to the maintenance team in the everyday planning and execution of preventative maintenance and repair of all production equipment. The Maintenance Manager assumes the role of a technical leader and has overall responsibility for ensuring timely and quality repair of equipment and plant machinery to minimize downtime for safe and efficient operation. Direct reports may include Maintenance Team Leaders and Maintenance planning personnel. This role will also provide direction to 3rd party contractors and work with corporate maintenance team to ensure needed support to bakery. Core Accountabilities Safety, Health and Environment- Set a strong tone for compliance and drive accountability with company policies, procedures, and operational standards by setting clear expectations and communicating rationale for changes to teams. Drive a culture of 0 tolerance with LOTO and other life saving procedures;- Liaise with Government agencies such as Technical Standards and Safety Authority, Ministry of the Environment and other regulatory bodies as required to ensure compliance;- Develop and maintain a training plan for all employees and ensure it is advancing. Ensure required training is completed and documented into training records Quality / Food Safety- Ensure all maintenance aspects of equipment meet food safety standards. Adhere to our HACCP plan and SQF II requirements; Production / Delivery- Deliver an effective preventive maintenance plan. Ensure that maintenance planning and execution systems are in place to deliver required equipment availability and reliability. Ensure schedule is balanced for PM compliance. Liaise with OEM suppliers of equipment to resolve breakdown & maintenance issues;- Provide technical leadership necessary to ensure both the department and facility meet or exceed targets;- Ownership and management of spare parts;- Ensure follow up on inventory record accuracy and data integrity issues; Cost- Provide input to annual maintenance budget & track results to ensure actions are taken to achieve targets;- Optimize department spend in alignment with Corporate preferred supplier programs;- Meet specific equipment reliability targets while operating within budget. Provide further troubleshooting of issues and determine what external support is needed to fix issues Productivity- Drive a continuous improvement culture by leading larger scope process improvements to achieve specific measurable goals. Use information tools to look for opportunities to improve line efficiency, trends, and drive bakery priorities;- Conduct detailed root cause investigations for large deviations from target;- Lead maintenance deliverables within the planning, assessment, installation and testing of new equipment, methods and/or products;- Review investigations done by maintenance team of unplanned breakdowns, and investigate as to cause. Provide further troubleshooting of issues and determine what external support is needed to fix issues. Liaise with contractors to provide assistance as needed with maintenance beyond scope of in-house maintenance team; People / Morale- Establish and sustain a positive and cooperative employee environment through effective communications across work teams/shifts and other functional areas;- Ensure consistency across shift teams in effective, timely and fair performance and disciplinary feedback and documentation; Other Duties- Assist as needed in interviewing and hiring of new employees. Conduct effective onboarding of new employees;- Participate in the development of crewing strategies to respond to changes in demand including significant increases and decreases in volume. Work with HR to execute strategy; Job Requirements- 2-5 years maintenance management/supervisory experience in a food production facility- Strong mechanical and electrical skills- Familiarity with automated process/packaging technology an asset- Experience working in a computerized preventative maintenance program an asset- A demonstrated decision-maker with strong analytical and problem solving skills- A demonstrated leader with excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills who easily interacts with others and is adept