Senior Maintenance Leader: Plant Reliability & Compliance

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

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.