
Technical Operations Manager
- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits designed to fit your unique needs
- A dynamic and inclusive culture that promotes you to bring your whole-self to work
- Inspiring positive change for people and the planet with sustainability goals
- A supportive team that will encourage your professional growth and development
- Primary Point of Contact for technical expertise for assigned locations – own the responsibility for pulling in the right resources across the COEs, Engineering and OEMs to solve field teams problems
- Provide timely support to Plants to accelerate the restoring of manufacturing lines to full operational capacity following unplanned downtime events. Ie. major failure/downtime/defect
- Provide coaching and mentoring to maintenance managers and supervisors
- Partner with Reliability team as needed to Implement system processes to improve line reliability across the organization
- Work in partnership with plants to resolve chronic failures, defects or capability gaps that need longer-term strategy to address and collaborate with appropriate teams to incorporate into strategic plans
- Partner to develop strong relationships with our most critical OEMs
- Partner cross functionally to develop in-year strategies, capital, and productivity plans.
- Support transformation and capital project implementation as needed
- Ensure team compliance with all safety policies and procedures.
- Optimize operational efficiencies to support the production of our products.
- Track operational output measures (i.e. efficiency, cost) anticipating and correcting trends which would compromise achievement of financial targets
- Deliver effective change leadership to drive business changes while minimizing people impact
- Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues
- Manager role may require off-shift and weekend work and significant travel (up to 50%) with occasional travel to the United States
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Preferably in engineering, or similar field
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in manufacturing preferred. Preferably food/beverage experience
- Lean Six Sigma Experience preferred, demonstrated by successful completion of a major improvement project.
- You should possess strong skills, knowledge and capability in TPM or lean manufacturing, finance and accounting, project management, leadership, and statistics/logical problem solving.
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite applications
- Ability to give and receive constructive feedback
- Proven ability to thrive in a results-oriented, meaningful environment
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to encourage and get results through mentoring others
- Proven ability to coach, facilitate, and inspire team building skills
- French considered an asset
- Must have a valid driver’s license