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Salary: CAD 120,000 - 135,000 / annual
Riverside Natural Foods Ltd., a Canadian-based, family-owned, B-Corp certified company, manufactures nutritious snacks including MadeGood and GOOD TO GO brands. The company is on an ambitious mission to double its business by 2030 and is seeking a Manager, Plant Engineering to lead the plant engineering function across its manufacturing operations.
In this hands-on leadership role, you will provide day-to-day leadership, prioritization, resource planning, coaching, standards deployment, and project governance across plants. You will lead and develop a team of Plant Engineers while remaining closely connected to technical execution and plant priorities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning plant engineering work intake, prioritization, resource allocation, and weekly execution routines across sites
- Leading, coaching, onboarding, and developing Plant Engineers; providing performance input, technical guidance, training plans, and capability development
- Managing the portfolio of small-to-medium site engineering projects, plant support requests, equipment modifications, and capacity initiatives
- Ensuring engineering standards, documentation practices, drawing control, commissioning discipline, and project closeout expectations are applied consistently across sites
- Supporting site master planning, bottleneck identification, capacity planning, reliability improvement, and annual capital planning
- Coordinating plant engineering support for trials, commercialization, equipment upgrades, safety improvements, and post-startup stabilization
- Partnering with Site Directors and Plant Managers to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and remove execution barriers
- Collaborating with Capital Projects to ensure plant requirements are built into design, installation planning, commissioning, training, and handover
- Driving root cause problem solving for recurring technical issues that cross sites or require engineering escalation
- Managing external engineering support, contractors, OEMs, and vendors for plant engineering work
- Escalating strategic, budget, staffing, and major capital portfolio decisions to the Director, Engineering & Automation while keeping day-to-day coordination out of the Director's workflow
Success will be measured by plant engineering request closure rate, small-to-medium projects delivered on time and on budget, engineering standards adoption across sites, stakeholder satisfaction from plant leadership and cross-functional partners, coaching and capability development progress for Plant Engineers, and site master plan progress and quality of capital planning inputs.
Riverside values teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, grit, and fun. The company operates as a relatively flat organization with few silos, providing access to leadership and production staff. The role offers opportunities for personal development, career growth, and the chance to shape the organization's future as it scales.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Undergraduate degree in Engineering (PEng is an asset)
- Strong engineering experience within a manufacturing/factory environment
- Approximately 10 years of overall engineering experience
- Previous people-management experience, ideally 3–5 years
- 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
