Manager, Maintenance

Abbotsford, 31894 Marshall Rd, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Job Description

Posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM

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Our team is looking for a Maintenance Manager for our site in Abbotsford, BC.

Join our family of diverse, talented and dedicated people and become part of an industry-leading company as we strive to be the most successful food company in the world.

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Maintenance Manager leads all activities of the Maintenance department, ensuring short-term and long-term operational plans, objectives, requirements and standards are met. The Maintenance Manager is responsible for overseeing maintenance inventory control, management of equipment breakdowns, and the preventative maintenance program, while establishing quality and cost standards.

Key Accountabilities:

- 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.

- Promotes safety and a safe work environment for all employees/contractors,

- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations and other internal customers,

- Provides subject matter expertise on new equipment purchases to ensure maintainability and reliability,

- Champions and drives asset standardization throughout the facility,

- Provide leadership for equipment reliability improvement projects, focused on asset reliability,

- Champions the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and implements improvements and upgrades to ensure efficient and effective use of resources,

- Key contributor for new equipment selection, FAT’S, and reliability metrics during the commissioning process,

- Provides technical expertise and leadership to improve the preventative and predictive maintenance activities,

- Improve MRO inventory through cycle counting and the identification of critical spare parts,

- Develop standard processes for corrective action plans that improve asset care,

- Leads and directs ‘Fact Based’ and ‘Data Driven’ decision making through the effective utilization of RCA, TPM/AM, and LCAM,

- Foster a team environment to fully support the objectives of plant operations, using various metrics to measure maintenance performance, continuous improvement, and asset reliability,

- Review plant history and other technical files to identify opportunities for improvement,

- 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,

- Supports the development and execution of the annual CAPEX program,

- Work with Engineering to integrate capital projects into the asset care program at each facility,

- Establish reliability & work planning KPI's to monitor performance & improvement PM/CM ratio, MTBF, MTTR, Wrench Time, etc,

- Ensure compliance with HACCP, BRCGS regulations, and GMP’s are adhered to and maintain all relevant documentation,

Requirements:

- 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,

- Minimum of five years Maintenance Management experience

- Maintenance Management Professional (MMP) certification an asset

- Certified Asset Management Professional designation an asset (PEMAC)

- Mechanical Millwright 433A or Industrial Electrician 442A trade or 4th Class power engineer experience is preferred,

- Minimum five years Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMM) experience

- Working knowledge of ammonia plant operations

- Must have excellent computer skills, proficient in MS Office, Excel

What we have to Offer:

- Full benefits (health, dental, vision and disability.)

- Pension plan with company match.

- Referral bonus.

Hiring Range $84,070 - $120,220

Please note that the hiring range provided is derived from a group of like roles within Sofina. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, skillset of the candidate and internal equity.

Sofina Foods, Inc. is a privately owned Canadian company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada dedicated to providing great-tasting, high quality food products for consumers.

Our workforce is exceptionally diverse with professional opportunities across many functional areas of our business.

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