Director, Maintenance and Reliability

**Position Summary**:
Reporting to the Sr. Director, Maintenance & Reliability, this role will lead the strategic design, development and implementation of preventative and predictive maintenance systems, to enhance equipment reliability and performance across all operations. Collaborating closely with the maintenance teams in our Western Plants, this role will be leading the development and roll-out of Sofina’s maintenance strategy, ensuring alignment to corporate and operational goals, driving efficiency and innovation.
**Key Accountabilities**:

- Develop and execute a comprehensive reliability strategy that supports organizational objectives and operational excellence;
- Design, implement, and oversee corporate preventative and predictive maintenance systems that maximize equipment reliability;
- Leads and directs ‘Fact Based’ and ‘Data Driven’ decision making through the effective utilization of:

- FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis),
- RAM (Reliability Asset Management) Analysis,
- RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance),
- LCAM (Life Cycle Asset Management), and
- TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) methodologies and tools.
- Define life cycle maintenance requirements for all critical equipment, ensuring compliance across sites and service teams;
- Conduct lifecycle costing (LCC) analyses on new, problematic and aging assets, to repair/replace, repair/redesign and make/buy decisions;
- Improve the effectiveness of Sofina’s maintenance teams by developing a Maintenance Management systems and effective practices that lower maintenance costs, improve the skills and knowledge of the maintenance team;
- Provide technical guidance and strategic support to site maintenance teams, empowering and influencing them to achieve reliability targets;
- Evaluate, recommend, and integrate advanced technologies to enhance maintenance practices, such as instrumentation controls, sensors, and predictive analytics;
- Teach coach and mentors maintenance teams in Root Cause Analysis and Continuous Improvement;
- Lead/Support investigations into equipment failures, using RCA methodology, to identify and implement sustainable solutions;
- Establish a culture of accountability by embedding root cause analysis and reliability principles within Maintenance teams;
- Support development and roll-out of a National CMMS program for Sofina and act as the “voice of the customer” in the CMMS system implementation;
- Develop a mechanism to effectively communicate the maintenance strategy and collaborate with senior manufacturing team members to highlight and resolve maintenance related issues;
- Identify and develop KPIs for benchmarking maintenance performance;
- Establish MRO strategies to maintain consistent maintenance inventory practices across Sofina and centralize purchase agreements wherever possible;
- Actively participate in continuously improving the design of process equipment with the goal of improving yields while lowering Total Cost of Ownership.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering (or related technical discipline) is required;
- Advanced certifications in reliability (CMRP) would be an asset;
- 10+ years of experience in reliability engineering, maintenance management, or a related field, with progressive responsibility in managing the engineering &/or maintenance activities of a multi-plant organization;
- Proven track record in implementing preventative and predictive maintenance systems, conducting root cause analyses, and leading reliability initiatives;
- Demonstrated experience in building and managing high-performing teams;
- Experience in engineering and maintenance management within the food processing industry would be an asset.

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