Maintenance Senior Manager

At The Coca-Cola Company, our purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. Behind every beverage is a commitment to operational excellence - and that’s where you come in. We are hiring a Senior Manager, Maintenance for our Peterborough, Ontario plant, a key site for juice and dairy manufacturing. In this role, you will lead a maintenance and reliability strategy, ensure compliance across critical systems, and drive improvements that reduce downtime and elevate performance.

The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, leadership capability, and a passion for building team competence and efficiency in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

• Lead the development and execution of a multi-year maintenance and reliability strategy for the site, including alignment on capital project priorities.
• Drive preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize uptime of process, packaging, utilities, and building systems.
• Build technical capability across maintenance teams through structured coaching, mentoring, and skills development programs.
• Partner with production, quality, safety, and warehouse teams to deliver operational improvements that meet site performance and compliance targets.
• Ensure regulatory and internal compliance with systems including ammonia refrigeration, wastewater treatment, utilities, TSSA, CFIA, and KORE standards.
• Oversee the planning and allocation of resources for maintenance activities, spare parts management, and contractor coordination to ensure efficiency and continuity of operations.
• Utilize analytical tools to track the Department’s KPIs, identify failure modes, and implement corrective actions to minimize unplanned downtime.
• Serve as the site Subject Matter Expert for maintenance processes, engineering change control, and technical upgrades, ensuring smooth integration of new systems or technologies.
• Support the execution of capital projects by collaborating with corporate engineering and on-site project teams.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement by initiating focused improvement projects for safety, quality, and operational reliability.
• Act as a key partner in internal and external audits, driving ownership of findings and corrective actions to ensure sustained compliance.
• Communicate progress against maintenance KPIs, cost metrics, and reliability performance to stakeholders, delivering insights that inform operational decisions.
• Ensure safe work practices across all maintenance operations while fostering sustainable maintenance approaches aligned with corporate sustainability goals.
• Provide leadership and direction for on-site troubleshooting during complex technical issues across systems such as process automation, utilities, and building infrastructure.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or a similar Engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in similar industrial maintenance positions, including leadership roles with strategic responsibility.
• Advanced knowledge of refrigeration systems (including ammonia), wastewater treatment, and critical utilities operations.
• Expertise in maintenance and engineering compliance standards for food manufacturing, including ISO, GMP, HACCP, and CFIA guidelines.
• Proven experience managing site preventive and predictive maintenance programs leveraging modern CMMS platforms such as SAP.
• Solid technical background in troubleshooting processing and packaging machinery/equipment, utilities, and automation systems (PLC, SCADA, HMI).
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks for safety, environmental, and electrical compliance in Canada; knowledge…