Maintenance & Reliability Manager

• Provide governance and leadership for the site calibration program, including use of BlueMountain, 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 MainBoss, 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.

• 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.

• Provide leadership to ticketed millwrights, tradespeople, technical personnel and contractors to achieve Safety, Quality, Reliability and Productivity goals.
• Build a high-performing maintenance organization with clear accountabilities, standards, priorities and performance expectations.
• Coach and develop employees in technical capability, troubleshooting, structured problem solving and leadership.
• Develop competency matrices, training plans, cross-training and succession strategies for critical technical capabilities.
• Empower technicians to take ownership of equipment reliability and problem resolution while establishing effective daily and weekly management routines.
• Establish an apprenticeship program to pro-actively grow and develop talent within.
• Lead effectively in a unionized environment and maintain constructive labour relationships.

• Partner with Engineering, Operations and Quality to develop the site asset-lifecycle and capital-investment strategy, identifying obsolescence, reliability, safety, compliance and capacity risks.
• Contribute to development and management of the Operations capital budget and ensure priorities support compliance, reliability and capacity-improvement objectives.
• Represent Maintenance throughout equipment specification, design review, procurement, installation, commissioning and qualification to ensure new assets are safe, compliant, maintainable and reliable.
• Establish maintenance readiness for new equipment and capital projects, including preventive maintenance strategies, spare parts, technical documentation, training, asset master data and handover requirements before routine operation.

• Work closely with Engineering, Validation, Quality, Operations and the Joint Health & Safety Committee to ensure technical issues and equipment risks are addressed to required standards.
• Establish an environment that promotes timely communication, effective escalation, fact-based decision making and strong cross-functional collaboration.
• Support technical aspects of quality investigations involving equipment or facility systems, determine root causes and drive associated corrective and preventive actions to completion.
• Perform other responsibilities consistent with the scope and leadership expectations of the role as business and site needs evolve.

Please note that this job description is not exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to undertake other relevant duties as assigned and is commensurate with the grading of the post.

Activities may be subject to amendment over time as the role develops and/or priorities and requirements evolve.

Competencies Required for the Role

• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in production and packaging maintenance, including people, group or project leadership; pharmaceutical, food or other regulated manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical/Process Engineering or a relevant technical discipline, or an equivalent recognized skilled trade qualification with appropriate leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success improving a reactive maintenance environment toward proactive, reliability-based maintenance.
• Experience with procurement, commissioning and qualification of manufacturing and packaging equipment.
• Experience supporting regulatory inspections and operating within cGMP requirements.
• Experience working in a unionized environment.
• Experience with CMMS/EAM systems, maintenance planning and scheduling, asset history, maintenance KPIs and data-driven performance improvement.
• Experience with structured root-cause analysis, CAPA, change control and equipment lifecycle management.

• Uncompromising Safety and Quality mindset.
• Change agent who constructively challenges the status quo and can lead through ambiguity and resistance.
• Data-driven, fact-based decision maker with strong problem-solving and root-cause orientation.
• Balances urgency with disciplined planning, risk management and sustainable execution.
• Builds accountability and organizational capability rather than becoming the solution to every problem.
• Develops people, encourages constructive challenge and creates an environment of continuous learning.
• Demonstrated interpersonal savvy, relationship management and influencing skills across functions and levels.
• Exercises innovative thinking and encourages practical, creative approaches to improve performance.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English.

• Competitive salary.
• 13 paid holidays.
• Competitive vacation policy effective upon hire.
• 5 paid personal care days.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Medical, dental, vision, STD & LTD benefits.
• Expected Salary Range: $115,000 - $135,000 / Year, DOE

Bimeda is a leading global innovator, manufacturer and marketer of veterinary pharmaceuticals and animal health products and has over half a century’s experience in providing science-driven solutions to optimize the health, wellbeing and productivity of the world’s animals.

Bimeda’s global innovation program sees six state-of-the art R&D centers across four continents collaborate on an enviable product development pipeline which anticipates the ever-evolving needs of the animal health industry.

Bimeda’s nine manufacturing facilities across seven countries allow the company to manufacture a broad range of preventative, curative and nutritional products including sterile injectables, vaccinations, nutritional boluses, feed additives, tablets, water-soluble powders, pastes and non-sterile liquids.

Globally, the company focuses on the development, manufacture and commercialization of quality Bimeda-branded products while also being the partner of choice for contract manufacturing and R&D services for prominent companies within the animal health industry.

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