Operations Maintenance Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
About the Role: We have a current opening for a Maintenance Manager and are actively reviewing applications.
Step into a leadership role where your maintenance expertise and people leadership directly drive production excellence. The Maintenance Manager oversees all equipment maintenance and reliability to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant operations. This role leads preventive and corrective maintenance activities, supervises maintenance teams, and partners cross functionally to support production goals and continuous improvement initiatives.
The Maintenance Manager ensures alignment with company standards, regulatory requirements, and EHS protocols, while supporting capital projects, budgeting, and strategic planning.
This role will report to the Head of Maintenance for our Brantford facility.
Main Responsibilities:
- Oversee a team of approximately 70; including Maintenance Supervisors and Technicians within several large production areas
- Ensure equipment reliability to meet production schedules, quality, and efficiency targets
- Lead and manage preventive maintenance programs and maintenance planning
- Oversee supervisory leadership, ensuring alignment of teams, priorities, and performance
- Manage maintenance records, spare parts, inventory, and cost controls
- Analyze performance data, troubleshoot issues, and implement improvements
- Collaborate with production, engineering, quality, purchasing, and reliability teams
- Work with vendors and contractors; support budget and capital investment activities
- Drive continuous improvement using LEAN and operational excellence principles
- Develop, implement, and evaluate maintenance policies, procedures, and training
About You:
- 4-7 years leading large industrial maintenance teams on a large scale
- Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- Strong knowledge of industrial equipment, maintenance practices, and production processes
- Experience in people leadership, coaching, and performance management
- Solid understanding of business, resource planning, and cost benefit decision making
- Strong communication, problem solving, and organizational skills
- Ability to monitor performance and lead continuous improvement initiatives
Artificial Intelligence Disclosure:
As part of our recruitment process, Ferrero may use artificial intelligence (AI) enabled tools to assist with reviewing candidate applications. These tools are used solely to support recruiters by summarizing application information and identifying potential alignment with job requirements. AI does not independently screen out or select candidates, and it does not replace human judgment. Final decisions regarding candidate progression are always made by Ferrero recruiters and hiring managers.
Our Benefits & Perks: Careers with caring built in - discover our benefits here.
The base salary range for this position is $110,000 - 160,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This range represents the anticipated salary for this position at this time.
In addition to base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits.
About Ferrero: Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.
DE&I at Ferrero: Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
Find out more here.
About Ferrero
Founded in 1946 by Pietro and Giovanni Ferrero, the Ferrero Group is a family-owned business in its third generation. It has been built by talented people who share a commitment towards continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality and care. This same commitment is put into everything we do for our consumers and characterizes the environment in which we operate. Some of the world’s most iconic confectionery products come from Ferrero, including Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, and Kinder Surprise®. Sold in more than 170 countries, our products are part of the collective memory and traditions of consumers all around the world; loved by generations. In 2015, we entered a new era of acquisitions. Since then, we have acquired several brands and businesses, including Fannie May, the confectionary division of Nestlé, and Eat Natural, expanding our footprint and product offering also into the healthy snack segment. The secret to our global success is our 38,767 employees across the world, all dedicated to delivering the care and quality to craft the business, the careers and the brands we are proud of. From the moment you join us, we make sure you can nurture your curiosity and natural abilities. We provide the resources you need to succeed personally and professionally in a diverse work environment that is multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding. In 2021, Ferrero was the confectionary company with the best reputation in the world, according to RepTrak. This achievement reflects our determination to bring consumers only the very best; an approach which is at the heart of everything we do. Our dedication to quality and excellence, our heritage and our family values, as well as our respect for the environment and the communities in which we work, are all seen in our desire to sustain and celebrate life’s special moments. Be part of it! Visit www.ferrerocareers.com to explore the opportunities Ferrero can offer when you craft your career with us.
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Operations Maintenance Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
About the Role: We have a current opening for a Maintenance Manager and are actively reviewing applications.
Step into a leadership role where your maintenance expertise and people leadership directly drive production excellence. The Maintenance Manager oversees all equipment maintenance and reliability to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant operations. This role leads preventive and corrective maintenance activities, supervises maintenance teams, and partners cross functionally to support production goals and continuous improvement initiatives.
The Maintenance Manager ensures alignment with company standards, regulatory requirements, and EHS protocols, while supporting capital projects, budgeting, and strategic planning.
This role will report to the Head of Maintenance for our Brantford facility.
Main Responsibilities:
- Oversee a team of approximately 70; including Maintenance Supervisors and Technicians within several large production areas
- Ensure equipment reliability to meet production schedules, quality, and efficiency targets
- Lead and manage preventive maintenance programs and maintenance planning
- Oversee supervisory leadership, ensuring alignment of teams, priorities, and performance
- Manage maintenance records, spare parts, inventory, and cost controls
- Analyze performance data, troubleshoot issues, and implement improvements
- Collaborate with production, engineering, quality, purchasing, and reliability teams
- Work with vendors and contractors; support budget and capital investment activities
- Drive continuous improvement using LEAN and operational excellence principles
- Develop, implement, and evaluate maintenance policies, procedures, and training
About You:
- 4-7 years leading large industrial maintenance teams on a large scale
- Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering or related field
- Strong knowledge of industrial equipment, maintenance practices, and production processes
- Experience in people leadership, coaching, and performance management
- Solid understanding of business, resource planning, and cost benefit decision making
- Strong communication, problem solving, and organizational skills
- Ability to monitor performance and lead continuous improvement initiatives
Artificial Intelligence Disclosure:
As part of our recruitment process, Ferrero may use artificial intelligence (AI) enabled tools to assist with reviewing candidate applications. These tools are used solely to support recruiters by summarizing application information and identifying potential alignment with job requirements. AI does not independently screen out or select candidates, and it does not replace human judgment. Final decisions regarding candidate progression are always made by Ferrero recruiters and hiring managers.
Our Benefits & Perks: Careers with caring built in - discover our benefits here.
The base salary range for this position is $110,000 - 160,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This range represents the anticipated salary for this position at this time.
In addition to base salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits.
About Ferrero: Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.
DE&I at Ferrero: Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
Find out more here.
About Ferrero
Founded in 1946 by Pietro and Giovanni Ferrero, the Ferrero Group is a family-owned business in its third generation. It has been built by talented people who share a commitment towards continuous improvement to achieve the highest quality and care. This same commitment is put into everything we do for our consumers and characterizes the environment in which we operate. Some of the world’s most iconic confectionery products come from Ferrero, including Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, and Kinder Surprise®. Sold in more than 170 countries, our products are part of the collective memory and traditions of consumers all around the world; loved by generations. In 2015, we entered a new era of acquisitions. Since then, we have acquired several brands and businesses, including Fannie May, the confectionary division of Nestlé, and Eat Natural, expanding our footprint and product offering also into the healthy snack segment. The secret to our global success is our 38,767 employees across the world, all dedicated to delivering the care and quality to craft the business, the careers and the brands we are proud of. From the moment you join us, we make sure you can nurture your curiosity and natural abilities. We provide the resources you need to succeed personally and professionally in a diverse work environment that is multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding. In 2021, Ferrero was the confectionary company with the best reputation in the world, according to RepTrak. This achievement reflects our determination to bring consumers only the very best; an approach which is at the heart of everything we do. Our dedication to quality and excellence, our heritage and our family values, as well as our respect for the environment and the communities in which we work, are all seen in our desire to sustain and celebrate life’s special moments. Be part of it! Visit www.ferrerocareers.com to explore the opportunities Ferrero can offer when you craft your career with us.