Manager, Plant Engineering

The role

The Manager, Plant Engineering leads the plant engineering function and provides day-to-day leadership. This role manages resource planning, coaching, standards deployment, and small-to-medium project governance across plants to support productivity and operational improvement.

What you will do

• Own plant engineering work intake, prioritization, resource allocation, and weekly execution routines across sites.
• Lead, coach, onboard, and develop Plant Engineers.
• Manage the portfolio of small-to-medium site engineering projects, plant support requests, equipment modifications, and capacity initiatives.
• Ensure engineering standards, documentation practices, drawing control, commissioning discipline, and project closeout expectations are applied consistently.
• 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 and Plant Managers to align priorities and remove execution barriers.
• Collaborate with Capital Projects to ensure plant requirements are built into design, installation, and commissioning.
• Drive root cause problem solving for recurring technical issues.
• Manage external engineering support, contractors, OEMs, and vendors.

Required qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Engineering
• Strong engineering experience within a manufacturing/factory environment.
• Significant overall engineering experience, with approximately 10 years being the target profile.
• 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
• 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.

Nice to have

• PEng an asset

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits program
• RRSP matching or 401k matching
• Eligibility to participate in Riverside's Profit Sharing Plan
• Employee-Led Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Riverside University program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Open concept work environment

About the company

Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. is a Canadian-based, family-owned, and globally operating B-Corp certified company. They manufacture nutritious snacks such as MadeGood and GOOD TO GO.