Maintenance Manager – Pulp

Job title: Maintenance Manager – Pulp

Job description: Posting ID: 20785
Position Type: Regular/Full-Time
City: Taylor, BC, Canada
Location: Taylor Pulp (BC16)

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Manager, Maintenance – Pulp

The Opportunity:
Canfor is currently seeking a motivated and experienced Maintenance Manager to join and lead our Maintenance Teams. You’ will be an impactful leader who gets things done, knowing the nuts and bolts of large-scale industrial manufacturing environments and instinctually knowing what it takes to ensure your people are engaged. As a strategic leader, you understand people and know that for people to buy in, you must be relatable and communicate the bigger picture.

Ideally, you have experience in a manufacturing environment and have demonstrated an interest, enthusiasm and a successful track record related to Maintenance and Reliability. Preference will be given if you have a Engineering Degree, or Trades Certification and understand the maintenance and management of large manufacturing operations. What will really set you aside is your willingness to get out from behind the desk, leveraging your experience, your professionalism and your ability to engage and communicate to teams and the multiple stake holders this position deals with on a daily basis.

The Role:
As a key technical resource for the Canfor Pulp Mill in Taylor, BC, the Maintenance Manager will primarily:

• Develop and implement the major maintenance budget and assure that appropriate standards are maintained
• Ensure that Reliability and Continuous Improvement processes are adhered to
• Work with the central Capital Team to develop and implement the annual and Strategic Capital Plans
• Provide support to the operations groups
• Coordinate the Taylor Pulp Mill annual maintenance outages
• Liaise with central reliability and annual outages teams
• Provide support to the stores and inventory teams

The Candidate:

• Extensive experience in leading teams in an industrial maintenance environment
• Proven ability in safety management, leadership and employee coaching and development
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, analytical, problem solving and team building skills
• Effective communication and presentation skills both written and verbal
• Solid knowledge of Performance Management and Continual Improvement process
• Strong understanding and knowledge for the optimization of equipment and processes
• Proficiency in contemporary business management skills and computer skills
• Your proven supervisory record has fostered the highly developed interpersonal and leadership skills that will serve you well in this multifaceted role.
• Preference will be given to those who have an Engineering degree, a valid Journeyman TQ, or equivalent experience combined with a solid maintenance background

The Incentive
Canfor offers a comprehensive, flexible benefits package that allows you to customize your benefits to meet your individual needs, and includes health and dental coverage as well as life, accident and disability insurance. In addition to this, we offer pension and other benefits.

Grow with us
At Canfor, we understand that our strength comes from our skilled and dedicated employees and we work hard to support their ongoing professional development. We offer a number of training programs and development opportunities to support each of our employees in their pursuit of career advancement and growth. Whether you want to develop upon your skills or advance your career with Canfor, we offer a promote-from-within culture that will give you these opportunities.

Canfor Values

At Canfor, our values are at the core of everything we do. Safety comes first, and we are proud of our unwavering commitment to excellence, and customer satisfaction, which allows us to safely and efficiently deliver quality products to our customers around the globe.

• Safety comes first.
• We succeed when our customers succeed.
• We are resilient and resourceful. We always find a way forward.
• We are a good neighbour in our communities and a responsible steward of the environment.
• We demonstrate integrity by doing what we say we are going to do.

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Taylor, BC
The picturesque community of Taylor is small but growing and near to BC’s Energetic City – Fort St. John, which is only 14 km away. The area’s surrounding landscape is speckled with calm lakes and untouched rivers, and is a dream to outdoor enthusiasts all year round. For more information, visit

Company: Canfor

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Location: British Columbia

Job date: Fri, 28 May 2021 05:26:12 GMT