Senior Manager, Maintenance and Reliability Engineering
- Calgary, AB
- On-site
- Posted Oct 18, 2026
- 1 position
Opens an external site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Experience level
- Senior · 5+ years
- Minimum education
- Professional degree
- Apply by
- Nov 5, 2026
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
Job summary
The Senior Manager is responsible for managing engineering and maintenance services to ensure equipment reliability, uptime, and productivity targets. They lead the maintenance team in executing predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.
Job details
Position Summary: Reporting to the Director, Operations, the Senior Manager, Maintenance and Technical Services, is responsible for managing the effective delivery of engineering services and maintenance services to operations, to guarantee equipment reliability and functionality, and to support the achievement of uptime and productivity targets. Oversees the maintenance team in carrying out predictive, preventive and corrective maintenance of the plant equipment, to ensure short-term and long-term operational plans, objectives, requirements and standards are met. Assuring cost, health & safety, environment, quality and human resources objectives are achieved. Key Accountabilities: Provides leadership to the maintenance team, to align with national maintenance program(s) and ensures efficient day-to-day operation of the facility and all equipment; Apply a variety of prescribed practices to identify and manage Asset Reliability risks, that could cause stoppages and adversely affect plant or business operations; Leads and directs Equipment Criticality Assessments, Critical Spares Analyses, and Failure Root Cause Analyses; Leads and directs ‘Fact Based’ and ‘Data Driven’ decision making through the effective utilization of RCA, TPM/AM, RCM, RAMS, LCAM, FMEA Analysis; Provides subject matter expertise on new equipment purchases to ensure maintainability and reliability; Key contributor for new equipment selection, FAT’S, and reliability metrics during the commissioning process; Champions and drives asset standardization throughout the facility, Supports the development and execution of the annual CAPEX program; Develop standard processes for corrective action plans that improve asset care; Champions the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and implements improvements and upgrades to ensure efficient and effective use of resources; Promotes safety and a safe work environment for all employees/contractors; Provides technical expertise and leadership to improve the Predictive and Condition Based maintenance activities; Improve MRO inventory control through cycle counting and the identification of critical spare parts; Establish reliability & work planning metrics/KPI's to monitor performance & improvement PM/CM ratio, MTBF, MTTR, etc.; Foster a team environment to fully support the objectives of plant operations, using various metrics to measure maintenance performance, continuous improvement, and asset reliability; Incorporate continuous improvement feedback into the maintenance planning and execution strategy; Utilize lifecycle cost analysis (LCA) for decision making and evaluation of rebuild vs replacement alternatives. on assets; Ensure compliance with HACCP, BRCGS regulations, and GMP’s are adhered to and maintain all relevant documentation. Requirements: Self-motivated and passionate individual, who has a high sense of urgency, thrives with a wide variety of work, and can deliver consistent results on multiple priorities; Minimum of five years Maintenance Management experience; Engineering Degree or Engineering Technologist Diploma (mechanical / industrial / electrical); Professional Engineer designation would be an asset (P. Eng); Maintenance Management Professional (MMP) certification an asset; Certified Asset Management Professional designation an asset (PEMAC); Mechanical Millwright 433A or Industrial Electrician 442A trade experience is preferred; Minimum five years Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) experience; Working knowledge of ammonia plant operations; Strong project management skills; Must have excellent computer skills, proficient in MS Office, Excel.
What you’ll do
The Senior Manager is responsible for managing engineering and maintenance services to ensure equipment reliability, uptime, and productivity targets. They lead the maintenance team in executing predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and quality standards.
Requirements
Candidates must have a minimum of five years of maintenance management experience and an engineering degree or technologist diploma. Proficiency in CMMS software and strong project management skills are required, with professional engineering or trade certifications considered an asset.
Listed skills
- Inventory Control · Preferred
- Preventive Maintenance · Preferred
- Leadership · Preferred
- Root Cause Analysis · Preferred
- Project management · Preferred
Other relevant skills
Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.
- Maintenance management
- Asset reliability
- Root cause analysis
- CMMS
- Project management
- Predictive maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- CAPEX planning
- Inventory control
- Lifecycle cost analysis
- HACCP compliance
- GMP compliance
- Leadership
- Data-driven decision making
- Equipment commissioning
- Business Operations
- Ammonia Production
- Certified Asset Management Professional (CAMP)
- Equipment Selection
- Planning
- Self-Motivation
- Microsoft Excel
- Management
- Good Manufacturing Practices
- Decision Making
- Computerized Maintenance Management Systems
- Computer Literacy
- Condition-Based Maintenance
- Continuous Improvement Process
- Corrective Maintenance
- Cycle Counting
- Failure Mode And Effects Analysis
- Hazard Analysis And Critical Control Points (HACCP)
- Inventory Control
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Maintainability
- Project Management
- Maintenance Repair And Operations (MRO)
- Mean Time Between Failures
- Operations
- Predictive Analytics
- Purchasing
- Technical Services
- Root Cause Analysis
- Reliability Availability Maintainability And Safety Software
- Commissioning
- Reliability
Job areas
- Management & Leadership
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Energy
- Food & Beverage
- Maintenance and Reliability Engineer
- Maintenance Manager
- Mechanical Engineering Technicians
- First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
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