Regional Director - Plant Maintenance & Capital Projects - Food / Temperature Controlled / Cold Storage and similar

Job summary

Oversee multi-site plant maintenance, asset health, reliability, and maintenance budgets, while leading maintenance and engineering teams. Direct concurrent capital projects, including facility expansions, renovations, equipment upgrades, and new builds, managing contractors, schedules, costs, and capacity planning.

Job details

Regional Director - Plant Maintenance & Capital Projects - Food / Temperature Controlled / Cold Storage and similar Food Processing / Food Storage Food Brown Field / Green Field Projects Food Temperature Controlled Cold Storage Multi -Site Plant Maintenance – HVAC / Refrigeration / Building maintenance / Equipment Maintenance / Plant Reliability & Maintenance Location: Mississauga – Brampton – west Toronto, ON Salary: 140K -185K base, Bonus, Benefits 5 days on site 30-40% travel Our client is a well-established food importer / cold storage business with multiple sites across Canada, focused on the import of fresh and frozen foods from Far East countries (China and the region). They have an existing job open for Regional Director - Plant Maintenance & Capital Projects – Food to support their growth and expansion plans. The candidate will be responsible for overseeing all capital projects – (green field & brown field projects, architects/ electrical / mechanical contractors) & Plant Maintenance- Asset Health / Building / Plant Processing equipment -refers / freezers / and similar. This is 5 days on site and will involve 30-35% travel to sites in west GTA and several other provinces. Cantonese / Mandarin is highly preferred to be able to communicate with central offices in far East. Regional Director - Plant Maintenance & Capital Projects – Food will be fully responsible for Capital budgets, plant expansions, modification, equipment upgrade and similar. Yu will also be fully responsible for Plant Maintenance budget/ spends/ MRO / tooling / parts budgets and asset health. You will lead maintenance & plant engineering teams including refrigeration, HVAC building maintenance, conveyors, coolers and similar. You will manage plant maintenance crews, coach, mentor and performance management of senior leadership teams. You will select & manager construction contracts, oversee architectural and interior designers, optimise capacity and floor plans and oversee all contractors to maintain project milestones time / cost on several projects simultaneously. You will lead coach Pant maintenance and capital expansion teams, be responsible for overall maintenance reliability, asset protection and the effective operation of existing facilities, while overseeing budgets, capital improvements and the expansion and development of new upcoming facilities. Regional Director - Plant Maintenance & Capital Projects – Food will have minimum 12-15 years of Maintenance experience (MUST have) in Food Processing / Food Warehousing / Distribution centres / Cold Storage and similar; 5-10 years of overseeing Food Plant expansions / Food Plant Construction / Food Plant New Build / Start up facilities under Health Canada, Municipalities and similar. B.Sc. / B.Eng. Bachelors degree / Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering degree, Capital project management, Budget reporting on Capital and Plant maintenance, people leadership of multiple sites and similar are MUST haves. Food industry experience in temperature-controlled environments is a MUST have. Strong hydraulics, pneumatics, construction project management for food grade plants is highly preferred. Experience working with general contractors, consultants, landlords and other external stakeholders, ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities, interpret blueprints, drawings, specifications and technical documentation are all a MUST have. Cantonese / Mandarin communication skills highly preferred to be able to work with central leadership. Ability to travel to multiple sites in GTA with 30% travel. Qualified candidates willing to work 5 days in office or at the new plant / project site, in the Mississauga / Brampton / Milton / west GTA / Toronto, ON area are welcome to send their resumes as WORD doc to Preeti.Dayal@hays.com . Please write “Regional Director - Plant Maintenance & Capital Projects- Food” in the subject line of the e mail. While we thank all applicants for your interest, only the most qualified candidates will be contacted due to volume of applicants. AI may be used to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.

What you’ll do

Oversee multi-site plant maintenance, asset health, reliability, and maintenance budgets, while leading maintenance and engineering teams. Direct concurrent capital projects, including facility expansions, renovations, equipment upgrades, and new builds, managing contractors, schedules, costs, and capacity planning.

Requirements

Requires 12–15 years of maintenance experience in food processing, food warehousing, distribution, or cold storage, plus 5–10 years overseeing food plant construction, expansions, or start-ups. A bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering, capital and maintenance budget experience, multi-site leadership, and food-grade project management expertise are required; Cantonese or Mandarin is highly preferred.

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits

Listed skills

• Budget · Preferred
• Reliability · Preferred
• Leadership · Preferred
• Upgrades · Preferred
• Health · Preferred
• Teams · Preferred
• Client · Preferred
• management · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred
• maintenance · Preferred
• Communication Skills · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Plant Maintenance
• Capital Project Management
• Food Processing
• Cold Storage
• Refrigeration
• HVAC
• Building Maintenance
• Equipment Maintenance
• Plant Reliability
• Capital Budgeting
• Maintenance Budgeting
• Multi-Site Leadership
• Construction Project Management
• Contractor Management
• Blueprint Interpretation
• Hydraulics And Pneumatics

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Engineering
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Food & Beverage

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