Engineering Manager

Oshawa, ON
On-site
Posted Oct 4, 2026
1 position

$130,000–$140,000 / year

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Minimum education: Professional degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Lead site engineering and maintenance strategy, teams, reliability programs, and capital projects to improve equipment uptime, productivity, safety, quality, and cost. Manage budgets, contractors, equipment upgrades, automation, and facility improvements while partnering with cross-functional teams and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Job details

Engineering Manager – CPG Manufacturing Location: Oshawa, ON Salary: $130,000–$140,000 base + benefits/bonus About the Opportunity Our client is a leading CPG manufacturing company with a fast-paced, highly automated operation in Oshawa, Ontario. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead engineering, maintenance, reliability, and capital project initiatives across the facility. This is a hands-on leadership role for an engineering professional with strong experience in packaging manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, capital projects, and continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities Lead the site engineering and maintenance strategy, ensuring high equipment reliability, uptime, and operational performance. Provide leadership to engineering and maintenance teams, including coaching, development, performance management, and workforce planning. Oversee capital projects from concept and budgeting through installation, commissioning, and start-up. Develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance and reliability programs. Drive improvements in equipment reliability, OEE, productivity, safety, quality, and cost. Partner closely with Production, Quality, EHS, Supply Chain, and Finance to support plant objectives. Lead equipment upgrades, automation initiatives, facility improvements, and process optimization projects. Manage engineering budgets, capital expenditures, contractors, and external engineering partners. Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing processes, reduce downtime, and increase production capacity. Ensure compliance with applicable safety, environmental, engineering, and regulatory requirements. Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex equipment and manufacturing issues. Establish engineering standards, maintenance KPIs, reliability metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required. P.Eng. designation is strongly preferred and considered a significant asset. Engineering degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline. 5+ years of progressive engineering, maintenance, reliability, or manufacturing leadership experience. Strong experience within CPG, consumer products, packaging, or similar high-volume manufacturing environments. Proven experience leading maintenance and reliability programs. Strong track record managing capital projects from planning through implementation. Experience with automated manufacturing and packaging equipment. Demonstrated people leadership experience with engineering and/or maintenance teams. Strong understanding of preventive/predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, and reliability engineering. Excellent communication, project management, and problem-solving skills.

What you’ll do

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in engineering is required, with a P.Eng. designation strongly preferred. Candidates should have at least five years of progressive engineering, maintenance, reliability, or manufacturing leadership experience, preferably in high-volume CPG or packaging operations, along with experience leading teams, reliability programs, and capital projects.