About this role
Job Description Summary:
At The Coca‑Cola Company, our purpose is to refresh the world and make a difference. Behind every beverage is a commitment to operational excellence — and that’s where you come in.
We are hiring a Senior Manager, Maintenance for our Peterborough, Ontario plant, a key site for juice and dairy manufacturing. In this role, you will lead a maintenance and reliability strategy, ensure compliance across critical systems, and drive improvements that reduce downtime and elevate performance. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, leadership capability, and a passion for building team competence and efficiency in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Position-Related Duties and Key Responsibilities
• Lead the development and execution of a multi-year maintenance and reliability strategy for the site, including alignment on capital project priorities. • Drive preventive and predictive maintenance programs to maximize uptime of process, packaging, utilities, and building systems. • Build technical capability across maintenance teams through structured coaching, mentoring, and skills development programs. • Partner with production, quality, safety, and warehouse teams to deliver operational improvements that meet site performance and compliance targets. • Ensure regulatory and internal compliance with systems including ammonia refrigeration, wastewater treatment, utilities, TSSA, CFIA, and KORE standards. • Oversee the planning and allocation of resources for maintenance activities, spare parts management, and contractor coordination to ensure efficiency and continuity of operations. • Utilize analytical tools to track the Department’s KPIs, identify failure modes, and implement corrective actions to minimize unplanned downtime. • Serve as the site Subject Matter Expert for maintenance processes, engineering change control, and technical upgrades, ensuring smooth integration of new systems or technologies. • Support the execution of capital projects by collaborating with corporate engineering and on-site project teams. • Champion a culture of continuous improvement by initiating focused improvement projects for safety, quality, and operational reliability. • Act as a key partner in internal and external audits, driving ownership of findings and corrective actions to ensure sustained compliance. • Communicate progress against maintenance KPIs, cost metrics, and reliability performance to stakeholders, delivering insights that inform operational decisions. • Ensure safe work practices across all maintenance operations while fostering sustainable maintenance approaches aligned with corporate sustainability goals. • Provide leadership and direction for on-site troubleshooting during complex technical issues across systems such as process automation, utilities, and building infrastructure.
Education and Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or a similar Engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience required. • Minimum 5 years of experience in similar industrial maintenance positions, including leadership roles with strategic responsibility. • Advanced knowledge of refrigeration systems (including ammonia), wastewater treatment, and critical utilities operations. • Expertise in maintenance and engineering compliance standards for food manufacturing, including ISO, GMP, HACCP, and CFIA guidelines. • Proven experience managing site preventive and predictive maintenance programs leveraging modern CMMS platforms such as SAP. • Solid technical background in troubleshooting processing and packaging machinery/equipment, utilities, and automation systems (PLC, SCADA, HMI). • Familiarity with regulatory frameworks for safety, environmental, and electrical compliance in Canada; knowledge of CSA and TSSA codes and standards is highly desirable. • Ability to interpret and modify technical drawings, P&ID diagrams, and engineering schematics for troubleshooting and process improvement. • Strong analytical and data literacy skills to leverage equipment performance data and reliability metrics for decision-making. • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional collaboration and managing external contractors in a manufacturing environment. • Excellent organizational, communication, and team leadership skills with the ability to build engagement and capability within a diverse workforce.
What We Offer
• Provide a critical leadership role where you will shape maintenance excellence in a high-performing manufacturing environment. • Ensure access to advanced technologies, tools, and corporate support to deliver sustainable reliability improvements. • Enable professional development and technical growth through continuous learning opportunities and cross-functional project involvement. • Empower you to impact site performance directly by driving efficiency, compliance, and safety across the plant.
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Pay Range: Canada: 134,800 - 151,900 CAD
 Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage: 15 Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Location(s): Canada City/Cities: Peterborough Travel Required: 00% - 25% Relocation Provided: No Job Posting End Date: October 16, 2026 Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.