Manager, Maintenance

Job Posting:
Wonderbrands is a leading North American bakery company with a specialized focus across all key bakery categories, including bread and rolls, donuts, pies, cakes, alternative breads, and others. We bake our products in more than 30 bakeries across Canada and the USA, conducting our business with integrity, contributing to our communities, and fostering a respectful culture. We are building a culture of success here, and it depends on our people striving for greatness and having the courage and commitment to getting better every day.

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.

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 in Medium to Large bakeries. Direct reports may include Maintenance Supervisors 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 lifesaving 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;

As the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for creating a maintenance roadmap and delivery plan, along with coaching, training, and developing your staff in an effort build a best in class department.

**Primary responsibilities include, but aren't limited to**:

- Providing leadership to maintenance lead persons and a staff of approximately 8 to 10 maintenance employees.
- Developing and prioritizing departmental work plans to ensure improved equipment reliability. Coordinate maintenance activities with production to maximize impact of available windows of opportunity