Maintenance Manager

Title: Maintenance Manager
Department: Business Development & Engineering
Reports to: Head of Business Development & Engineering

Direct Reports: Maintenance Team Leads, Maintenance Technicians

Company Background

Carlsberg Canada Inc. (CCI) is the Canadian division of Carlsberg Breweries, the world’s third-largest brewer. With about 300 employees at our Oakville head office, Waterloo brewery and across Canada, we proudly brew, distribute, and commercialize Carlsberg products nationwide including Carlsberg, 1664, Landshark, Waterloo brands, Somersby, Laker, Garage and Seagram RTDs. Our brewery also proudly works with a variety of co-manufacturing partnerships thanks to our amazing quality standards and operational excellence.

At Carlsberg, no matter your role or function, we are driven not only by what we deliver but also by how we work together—this is our Growth Culture. Built on five core principles, our Growth Culture guides the way we work, innovate, and lead, ensuring we continue Brewing for a Better Today and Tomorrow.

Role Summary

The Maintenance Manager is responsible for overall maintenance performance across the brewery through leadership of maintenance personnel, maintenance systems, and reliability improvement initiatives.

Working closely with the Maintenance Planning & Inventory Specialist, Technical Leaders (Packaging, Brewing and Processing, and Utilities) Operations, and Engineering, the role ensures maintenance activities are safely executed, effectively planned, and continuously improved to deliver reliable, cost effective operation of brewery assets.

The Maintenance Manager maintains a visible and active presence on the production floor, supporting troubleshooting activities, coaching and enabling teams, removing barriers, and ensuring alignment between maintenance execution and business priorities.

Accountabilities:

Maintenance Leadership & Team Performance

· Lead, coach, and develop maintenance personnel to build a safe, accountable, and high-performing maintenance organization.

· Establish clear goals, expectations, priorities, and performance standards for maintenance teams.

· Conduct regular performance reviews, development discussions, succession planning, and competency assessments.

· Foster a positive maintenance culture focused on ownership, teamwork, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

· Ensure adequate staffing, capability, and resource planning to support business requirements.

Maintenance Execution & Operational Support

· Maintain a visible and active presence on the production floor to support maintenance activities, troubleshoot issues, and coach personnel.

· Ensure an effective execution of daily and weekly maintenance priorities.

· Monitor maintenance schedule compliance and remove barriers impacting execution performance.

· Accountable for the response to major breakdowns, operational disruptions, and critical maintenance issues.

· Ensure maintenance activities are executed safely, efficiently, and to established standards.

· Act as primary maintenance representative with operations teams (Packaging, Brewing and Processing, Quality, Supply & Operational Planning, Logistics).

Maintenance Systems and Work Management

· Own the maintenance work management process, including planning, scheduling, prioritization, backlog management, and work order quality standards.

· Ensure effective utilization of CMMS system to support asset management and maintenance decision making.

· Review maintenance KPIs and drive actions to improve schedule compliance, PM completion, backlog health, and workforce efficiency.

· Ensure statutory, compliance, environmental, food safety, and HACCP requirements are completed on time.

· Establish and maintain maintenance standards, procedures, and governance processes.

Reliability & Continuous Improvement

· Primary responsible role for the implementation and application of Carlsberg Operational Manual (COM) and Carlsberg Excellence (CarlEx) within the maintenance function.

· Lead COM self-assessments and drive gap closures based off departmental needs and targets.

· Lead maintenance reliability improvement initiatives aimed at reducing downtime, improving asset performance, and lowering maintenance costs.

· Partner with Line Technical Leaders (Packaging, Brewing and Processing, or Utilities) to identify chronic losses, reoccurring failures, and equipment reliability risks.

· Support and govern root cause analysis processes and ensure corrective actions are implemented effectively.

· Lead the building of preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs and ensure they remain effective and aligned to business needs.

· Drive defect elimination activities and promote data-driven decision making.

· Monitor maintenance performance trends and prioritize improvement opportunities.

Planning, Shutdown, and Overhaul Management

· Ensure effective collaboration between maintenance execution, planning, inventory, and technical teams.

· Oversee maintenance shutdown planning, resource requirements, contractor utilization, and execution readiness.

· Review maintenance backlog, labor utilization, contractor effectiveness, and execution performance.

· Ensure spare parts availability and inventory strategies support operational requirements.

· Approve maintenance priorities and resolve resource conflicts affecting business performance.

Budget and Cost Management

· Develop, manage, and control maintenance operating budgets.

· Monitor maintenance expenditures and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce waste.

· Support development of capital investment priorities and asset replacement strategies.

· Ensure maintenance resources are utilized effectively while maintaining safety and reliability standards.

· Prepare and justify budget requirements, forecasts, and business cases as required.

Safety, Compliance & Risk Management

· Ensure maintenance activities comply with all health, safety, food safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

· Lead safety initiatives and drive continuous improvement in maintenance safety performance.

· Ensure compliance with lockout/tagout, contractor management, permit-to-work, and regulatory programs.

· Lead gap closure and implementation on key regulatory programs areas for improvement.

· Identify and mitigate operational and asset-related risks.

· Promote a culture where safety is integrated into all maintenance activities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in technical field or Trade Ticket
• 10 years of experience within a technical manufacturing role, 5 years maintenance leadership experience.
• Experience in implementing Continuous Improvement programs.
• Consumer Goods manufacturing experience. Preferably within Food and Beverage industry.
• Strong practical knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and process systems is a must.
• Strong ability to build and maintain processes and systems.
• Results driven, self-starter with an innovative mindset.
• Demonstrated planning, and time management skills.
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills.
• Positive mindset and strong forward momentum.

CARLSBERG GROUP: BREWING FOR A BETTER TODAY AND TOMORROW

For us growth has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.

Carlsberg Canada is committed to employing a diverse workforce and encourage all qualified professionals to apply. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Pay: $100,000.00-$110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Store discount
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision care
• Wellness program

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kitchener, ON N2B 3X9: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Experience:

• Maintenance Leadership: 5 years (preferred)
• CMMS: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Trades Ticket or Education in a Technical Field (preferred)

Work Location: In person