Reliability Team Leader

**Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life**:

- Manage, motivate, develop and provide direct leadership to maintenance staff
- Supervise repairs carried out by maintenance staff and/or Contractors
- Provide technical planning and scheduling for short
- and long-term objectives to ensure optimal maintenance effectiveness. Recommend a logical work sequence and resource allocation for designated objectives in collaboration with others. Report on scheduled maintenance versus completed maintenance jobs. Identify and resolve potential problems, recommending opportunities to improve the process and drive increased reliability.
- Collaborate with all levels to ensure that all preventive and predictive routines are scheduled at predetermined intervals. Develop and maintain annual overhaul plans and conduct related communications with production and maintenance leadership to achieve deadlines.
- Continually analyze and improve the state of current PMs and corrective work orders by conducting weekly meetings with supervision. Determine obstacles and assist with their removal to ensure future work can be completed as scheduled, discuss backlog issues and recurring corrective work orders. Ensure mínimal backlog and report seriously overdue maintenance that is not being completed.
- Evaluate incoming work notifications and, when warranted, generate and prioritize a work order to cover the work
- Assist with the implementation of capital projects
- Ensure that all maintenance work is captured on work orders and entered into the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
- Ensure that all scheduled work orders are completed in the allocated time, and review completed work orders for accuracy
- Perform periodic inspections of recently maintained equipment so as to observe the quality of the maintenance performed and the operating condition of the equipment
- Liaise with Engineering and Operations on matters relating to equipment maintenance and availability
- Analyze reports and troubleshoot areas of downtime concerns, through management of meetings, job site visits and follow up as required with the goal of minimizing amount of machine down time and maximizing equipment up time. Detect trends and provide status reports, diagrams, and projections to drive improvements. Provide all levels with assistance on report requirements.
- Resolve all maintenance related issues on a timely manner taking Food Safety, H &S, budget, environment into consideration and using Six Sigma and RCM Methodologies.
- Work with MRO to ensure all parts are available for planned maintenance. Work with appropriate contractors, vendors, manufacturers, internal trades, and Project Engineers, for planning, scheduling and executing to reach required Reliability KPI targets.
- Provide guidance to the Planner/Scheduler when approving, prioritizing and estimating work, and technical assistance when developing job plans
- Participate in various production meetings, KPI review meetings, and pre
- and post-maintenance schedule review meetings,
- Assist with the identification of root causes following equipment failures and development of new maintenance tasks to eliminate them in the future
- Ensure compliance with BRC and CFIA requirements as it relates to food safety and ensure that corrective action requests are dealt with in an effective and timely manner
- Ensure compliance with all applicable provincial and federal labour regulations and adhere to the terms and conditions specified in the appropriate collective bargaining agreements
- Demonstrate an active involvement/commitment to a progressive health and safety program and food safety program
- Provide temporary backup for the Maintenance Manager when necessary; and other responsibilities as required

**What You’ll Bring**:

- At home in a manufacturing environment and have 3 to 5 years of supervisory experience in a unionized environment
- Familiar with the concept of world class maintenance and best practices
- Aware of Six Sigma, RCM and autonomous maintenance principles
- A College graduate from an electro-mechanical program or a licensed tradesperson with related experience
- Conversant in preventive and predictive maintenance tactics
- Willing and flexible to work shifts as and when required
- Comfortable using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), SAP-PM preferably
- Recognized for their ability to troubleshoot and demonstrated organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal communication and leadership skills
- Experience in a food processing or manufacturing environment would be an asset
- Knowledge of ammonia-based plant refrigeration systems and their operation
- Able to manage maintenance and maintenance resources effectively through the use of key performance indicators and benchmarking
- Proven record for identifying reliability issues and participation implementing improvement strategies
- Knowledge and experience with HACCP
- Membership in PEMAC or any other professional main