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About the Role
The Manager, Plant Engineering leads the plant engineering function, providing day-to-day leadership, prioritization, resource planning, coaching, standards deployment, project governance, and performance improvement across plants. This hands-on leadership role focuses on building structure around plant engineering priorities while supporting productivity, innovation, efficiency, and operational improvement.
Responsibilities
- Own plant engineering work intake, prioritization, resource allocation, and weekly execution routines across sites.
- Lead, coach, onboard, and develop Plant Engineers, providing performance input, technical guidance, training plans, and capability development.
- Manage the portfolio of small-to-medium site engineering projects, plant support requests, equipment modifications, and capacity initiatives.
- Ensure consistent application of engineering standards, documentation practices, drawing control, commissioning discipline, and project closeout expectations.
- Support site master planning, bottleneck identification, capacity planning, reliability improvement, and annual capital planning.
- Coordinate plant engineering support for trials, commercialization, change parts, equipment upgrades, safety improvements, and post-startup stabilization.
- Partner with Site Directors / Plant Managers to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and remove execution barriers.
- Collaborate with Capital Projects to ensure plant requirements are incorporated into design, installation planning, commissioning, training, and handover.
- Drive root cause problem solving for recurring technical issues that cross sites or require engineering escalation.
- Manage external engineering support, contractors, OEMs, and vendors for plant engineering work.
- Escalate strategic, budget, staffing, and major capital portfolio decisions to the Director, Engineering & Automation.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in Engineering; PEng is an asset.
- Strong engineering experience within a manufacturing/factory environment.
- Approximately 10 years of overall engineering experience.
- 3–5 years of previous people-management experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers.
- Hands-on plant engineering experience with exposure to equipment modifications, commissioning/start-up, plant layouts, capacity and bottleneck analysis, reliability improvement, and root cause problem solving.
- Experience supporting plant-focused engineering projects and capital planning.
- Experience working with OEMs, contractors, vendors, or other external engineering partners.
- Strong understanding of Quality, Safety, and operational standards within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong customer focus with the ability to adapt to changing plant priorities, balance competing requests, and work effectively across functions.
- Experience with AutoCAD, SAP, and Microsoft Office.
Skills
- AutoCAD
- SAP
- Microsoft Office
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10 years of overall engineering experience
- 3-5 years of people management experience
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree in Engineering
- PEng
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000—$135,000 CAD
Benefits
- RRSP matching or 401k matching
- Eligibility to participate in Riverside's Profit Sharing Plan
- Employee-Led Resource Groups (ERGs) championing mental health, sustainability, diversity, women, and LGBTQ+ rights
- Riverside University program
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
About the Company
- Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. is a Canadian-based, family-owned, and globally operating business committed to leaving the world better than we found it.
- We are a B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line company.
- We proudly manufacture nutritious, 'better-for-you' snacks such as MadeGood and GOOD TO GO.
- Our values include teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, grit, and fun.
- We are on an ambitious mission to double our business by 2030.
- We offer unparalleled experiences and opportunities, encouraging employees to shape the organization's future.
- We foster a flat organization with few silos, providing access to all levels of staff.
- We support and empower personal development, allowing employees to chart their own career paths.
- We show gratitude and appreciation for our employees.
- We encourage employees to be Riverside Brand Ambassadors, staying close to consumers and representing the brand.
Equal Opportunity
- Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone.
- If you have a disability and require accommodation in the interview process, please let us know when you apply.