Senior Maintenance Manager, Pitt Meadows

Sr. Maintenance Manager - JLL What this job involves As a Senior Maintenance Manager, you will lead our site-based maintenance team. The team is comprised of a Maintenance Manager, Area Maintenance Managers and maintenance technicians reporting to the Regional Maintenance Manager. The primary responsibilities are to lead a large maintenance team that maximizes equipment uptime, executes equipment maintenance and projects in a fast‑paced, dynamic work environment.

The successful candidate will be a highly experienced subject‑matter expert in maintenance, workplace safety, and data‑driven management and leadership. A background in material handling equipment systems/applications, packaging automation, distribution processes and storage systems is a plus. The candidate must be a self‑starter, possessing the abilityto manage multiple complex projects and tasks simultaneously, as well as to influence and develop relationships at all organization levels. The candidate must be capable of overseeing the maintenance acceptance of portions of commissioning large‑scale, complex projects. Moreover, this individualwill need to be adept at providing technical leadership and mentoring to a Maintenance team of at least 80 people.

Essential functions include

Provide leadership, mentor and manage site‑based Maintenance Managers and Area Maintenance Managers in the North American Fulfilment Network.

Develop Maintenance Department business plans and provide guidance and direction for the successful implementation of those plans.

Develop and implement reliability plans that support increasing the uptime of the facility.

Drive maintenance Best Practices: innovate, document, improve work methods, standardise, provide a safe work environment, require safe work practices, train, commission equipment, collect, measure and analyse key performance indicators to improve processes and improve customers experience.

Offer guidance to senior leadership on maintenance and equipment end‑of‑life (EOL) issues using ROI and other analytical techniques.

Provide oversight for budget development and execution, and capital planning.

Help manage vendor support and equipment relationships and leverage network size to maximise economies of scale.

Provide monitoring, audit and enforcement of maintenance execution, safe work practices, and institute audit training drills across the network.

Leverage the entire maintenance team for the benefit of the North American network.

Develop and manage budget and contract documents including RFPs, change order controls, purchase orders and invoicing.

Provide Fulfilment Centre General Managers with visibility over the conduct of maintenance in their centres.

Recruit, interview and hire bar‑raising talent in the Maintenance Managers and Maintenance Area Manager roles.

Help create a world‑class Maintenance organisation.

Be willing and able to relocate.

Travel up to 20% at a minimum.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree

Previous corporate and/or regional maintenance roles leading 80 or more employees, including salaried employees.

Experience leading change and maintenance teams in multiple site environments.

7+ years’ experience managing employees and their performance.

Preferred Qualifications

Strong communication, team‑building and influencing skills.

Thrives in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with high expectations.

Thinks big! Proficient data analyst and new processes developer/adapter.

Self‑starter. Strong evidence of driving goals with minimal day‑to‑day supervision.

Experienced in material handling equipment and large, complex integrated systems maintenance with strong statistical analysis skills.

Strong knowledge and experience with the major MHE integrators.

Exposure to Lean concepts, TOC, layout design, cost/benefit analysis, labour productivity analysis (time studies, standardised work), safety/ergonomic/human factors.

Strong working knowledge of MS Excel, AutoCAD, MS Project, and SQL.

MBA or another Master’s degree and/or Six Sigma Black Belt Certification – a plus.

Professional engineering registration– a plus.

Physical Demands

Repetitive bending, crouching, kneeling, reaching, twisting, sitting, standing and walking during

Lifting parts and tools weighing on average 20 pounds, occasionally 49 pounds.

Dexterity in eye/hand coordination, feet (foot pedals) manual work (picking, pinching, holding, grasping) and wrist motion (repetitive flexion/rotation).

Working conditions may include small spaces, dust, fumes/odours, hot/cold temperatures, inside/outside noise, vibration, standing on concrete for long hours and wet or uneven surfaces.

JLL is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

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