Maintenance Manager
Bath, Ontario
$145,000 - $160,000 + Annual Bonus up to 36% | Full Benefits Day One | Pension | Permanent
Are you a Maintenance Manager who thrives in a heavy industrial environment and enjoys leading reliability improvements instead of constantly firefighting equipment failures
We're recruiting for an experienced Maintenance Manager to lead maintenance operations at one of Canada's largest and most advanced cement manufacturing facilities. This is a flagship operation where your impact will be highly visible, giving you the opportunity to lead a major maintenance transformation while positioning yourself for future Plant Manager and senior operational leadership opportunities.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys improving reliability, developing maintenance teams, and driving operational excellence in a complex 24/7 manufacturing environment.
Why You'll Love This Opportunity
- Salary of $145,000 - $160,000
- Annual performance bonus up to 36%
- Comprehensive benefits starting Day One
- Pension, RRSP and TFSA programs
- Leadership role reporting directly to the Plant Manager
- Large maintenance budget ($20M-$30M)
- Opportunity to influence long-term maintenance strategy
- Clear career progression into senior plant leadership
- Join a stable, growing North American industrial organization
What You'll Be Doing
As the Maintenance Manager, you will lead all maintenance and reliability activities for a large 24/7 heavy industrial manufacturing operation.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading a large unionized maintenance organization through supervisors, planners, coordinators and skilled trades
- Driving the transition from reactive maintenance to a proactive reliability culture
- Managing annual maintenance budgets of approximately $20M-$30M
- Leading preventive and predictive maintenance strategies
- Improving equipment reliability and plant uptime
- Managing major shutdowns and turnaround planning
- Leading Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations
- Developing capital maintenance projects and long-term asset strategies
- Partnering with Production, Engineering and Operations to improve overall plant performance
- Promoting a strong safety culture while achieving maintenance KPIs
Equipment You'll Support
This role oversees maintenance and reliability for critical heavy industrial assets including:
- Rotary kilns
- Ball mills
- Crushers
- Conveyors
- Material handling systems
- Dust collection systems
- Cooling systems
- Mobile equipment
- Mechanical and electrical infrastructure
What We're Looking For
We'd love to speak with you if you have:
- Electrical Engineering Degree is required
- 7+ years of heavy industrial maintenance experience
- 3-5+ years leading maintenance teams
- Strong experience with reliability engineering
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
- CMMS systems
- Shutdown and turnaround planning
- Budget ownership and cost control
- Union leadership experience
- Excellent communication and change management skills
Ideal Industry Background
Candidates from the following industries are encouraged to apply:
- Cement
- Mining
- Steel
- Aggregates
- Lime
- Pulp & Paper
- Power Generation
- Chemical Processing
- Heavy Manufacturing
What Makes This Role Different
This isn't simply another maintenance management position.
You'll be responsible for helping transform one of Canada's premier heavy industrial manufacturing facilities from a reactive maintenance culture into a world-class reliability organization.
Your success will be highly visible across the business, creating genuine opportunities for advancement into Plant Manager and senior operational leadership positions.
Apply Today
If you're an experienced Maintenance Manager looking for your next leadership opportunity in heavy industrial manufacturing, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply Direct OR email your resume to Syndel Gerlings at
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