Maintenance Senior Manager

The Coca-Cola Company; Peterborough; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company in Peterborough, Ontario is seeking a Senior Manager, Maintenance to lead the site’s maintenance and reliability strategy and drive improvements across process, packaging, and building systems.

You will develop and mentor maintenance teams, ensure compliance with ammonia, CFIA, and other standards, and collaborate with production and quality to elevate site performance. This role requires strong leadership, technical depth, and a passion for continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in industrial maintenance with leadership.
• Advanced knowledge of refrigeration systems (including ammonia), wastewater treatment, and critical utilities operations.
• Experience with ISO, GMP, HACCP, and CFIA guidelines.
• Proven experience managing site preventive and predictive maintenance programs with CMMS (SAP).
• Strong troubleshooting in processing and packaging machinery, utilities, and automation systems (PLC, SCADA, HMI).
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, P&ID diagrams, and schematics for troubleshooting and improvements.
• Strong analytical and data literacy skills for reliability metrics and decision-making.
• Experience leading cross-functional collaboration and managing external contractors.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and team leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-year maintenance and reliability strategy for the site, aligning capital project priorities.
• Drive preventive and predictive maintenance to maximize uptime of process, packaging, utilities, and building systems.
• Build technical capability across maintenance teams through coaching and skills development.
• Partner with production, quality, safety, and warehouse teams to drive operational improvements.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with ammonia refrigeration, wastewater treatment, utilities, CFIA, and related standards.
• Oversee planning of resources, spare parts, and contractor coordination for efficiency.
• Use KPIs to identify failure modes and implement corrective actions to reduce downtime.
• Serve as site SME for maintenance processes, ECN, and upgrades.
• Support capital projects with corporate engineering and on-site teams.
• Champion continuous improvement and safety initiatives.
• Lead internal and external audits and drive corrective actions.
• Communicate KPI progress and cost metrics to stakeholders.
• Promote safe, sustainable maintenance practices across the plant.
• Provide on-site troubleshooting leadership for complex technical issues.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Data analytics

Communication

Strategic planning

Problem solving

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

SAP CMMS

SCADA

Job description

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.

Position-Related Duties and Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Education and Qualifications

• 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 of CSA and TSSA codes and standards is highly desirable.

• Ability to interpret and modify technical drawings, P&ID diagrams, and engineering schematics for troubleshooting and process improvement.

• Strong analytical and data literacy skills to leverage equipment performance data and reliability metrics for decision-making.

• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional collaboration and managing external contractors in a manufacturing environment.

• Excellent organizational, communication, and team leadership skills with the ability to build engagement and capability within a diverse workforce.

What We Offer

• Provide a critical leadership role where you will shape maintenance excellence in a high-performing manufacturing environment.

• Ensure access to advanced technologies, tools, and corporate support to deliver sustainable reliability improvements.

• Enable professional development and technical growth through continuous learning opportunities and cross-functional project involvement.

• Empower you to impact site performance directly by driving efficiency, compliance, and safety across the plant.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.