Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Job Title:

Maintenance & Reliability Manager

Location:

Cambridge, ON (In-Office)

Position Type:
Full-time Regular

Vacancy Status:
This position will be Vacant in September

AI Disclosure in Hiring:
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be used to assist with certain aspects of the recruitment process, including the initial review and screening of applications. Final hiring decisions are made by Human Resources and hiring managers.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

Demonstrate visible leadership for Safety and Quality, ensuring maintenance activities are planned and executed without compromising employee safety, product quality, data integrity or GMP compliance.

Build a maintenance culture in which unsafe conditions, quality risks and equipment abnormalities are proactively identified, escalated and corrected.

Ensure maintenance work practices, contractors, permits, lockout/tagout and other applicable controls consistently meet site safety requirements.

Partner with Quality to ensure maintenance-related deviations, investigations, CAPAs and change controls are technically robust, completed on time and address systemic root causes.

Ensure maintenance and calibration activities are properly documented and performed in accordance with cGMPs, regulatory requirements, company standards and procedures.

Maintenance & Reliability Strategy

Develop and execute a site maintenance and reliability strategy aligned with Operations, Quality, Safety and business objectives.

Own the preventive, predictive and corrective maintenance programs, ensuring maintenance strategies are risk-based, effectively planned, completed on schedule and continuously improved based on equipment performance and failure history.

Establish and monitor maintenance and reliability KPIs, including appropriate measures for equipment downtime, PM compliance, schedule compliance, emergency work, repeat failures and maintenance backlog.

Drive the transition from reactive maintenance toward planned, preventive and predictive maintenance while improving equipment uptime and operational stability.

Identify chronic equipment losses and lead structured root-cause problem solving to eliminate repeat failures and improve asset performance.

Ensure critical equipment has appropriate maintenance strategies based on risk, failure modes, quality impact and business impact.

Establish effective maintenance planning, scheduling, prioritization, backlog management and critical-spares practices.

Maintenance Systems, Calibration & Facilities

Provide governance and leadership for the site calibration program, including use of Blue Mountain, to ensure regulatory compliance, timely execution, appropriate escalation and continuous improvement of calibration performance.

Ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of equipment master data, preventive maintenance plans and equipment history in Main Boss, and manage the equipment and facilities change-control process.

Provide governance and technical oversight for facility systems, including the Siemens Building Management System and applicable fire protection and security infrastructure, coordinating qualified resources and service providers as required.

Manage and periodically review maintenance and facility service contracts to ensure safety, compliance, service quality, performance and value.

Plan and lead major maintenance shutdown activities with clear scope, risk controls, resource plans, schedules and post-shutdown review.

Transformation & Continuous Improvement

Act as a change agent for the site, constructively challenging legacy maintenance practices and identifying better ways of working.

Lead initiatives that increase maintenance effectiveness, equipment reliability, technician productivity and operational performance.

Build a culture of structured problem solving, root-cause elimination, standard work and continuous improvement within the maintenance organization.

Use maintenance data and performance trends to challenge assumptions, prioritize improvements and measure sustained results.

Lead implementation and adoption of new maintenance processes, technologies, automation and digital tools where they create measurable value.

Ensure improvements are standardized, documented, embedded in operating routines and sustained rather than dependent on individual knowledge.

People Leadership & Capability

Provide leadership to ticketed millwrights, tradespeople, technical personnel and contractors to achieve Safety, Quality, Reliability and Productivity goals.

Build a high-performing…