<div class="content-intro"><p>Join Riverside Natural Foods Ltd., a Canadian-based, family-owned, and globally operating business, committed to leaving the world better than we found it. As a B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line company, we proudly manufacture nutritious, 'better-for-you' snacks such as MadeGood and GOOD TO GO. We value teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, grit, and fun.</p> <p>We’re on an ambitious mission to double our business by 2030, and we need talented individuals like you to help us reach new heights. At Riverside, you’ll have the opportunity to chart your own path to success while contributing to ours. We believe anything worth doing is worth doing right, and our values will guide us through the rugged terrain – and yes, it will get rough. But that’s what makes the journey worthwhile.</p> <p>So, lace up your boots and let’s tackle the climb together.</p> <p>You can learn more about us at <a href="https://www.riversidenaturalfoods.com">www.riversidenaturalfoods.com</a>.</p> <p> </p></div><div> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Position Summary</span></h2> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Manager, Plant Engineering leads the plant engineering function. The role provides day-to-day leadership, prioritization, resource planning, coaching, standards deployment, small-to-medium project governance across plants, and plant performance improvement.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This role will provide dedicated plant engineering leadership across Riverside, helping build greater structure around plant engineering priorities while supporting productivity, innovation, plant efficiency, and operational improvement.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can lead and develop a team while remaining closely connected to plant engineering priorities and technical execution. </span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Key responsibilities</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Own plant engineering work intake, prioritization, resource allocation, and weekly execution routines across sites.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead, coach, onboard, and develop Plant Engineers; provide performance input, technical guidance, training plans, and capability development.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Manage the portfolio of small-to-medium site engineering projects, plant support requests, equipment modifications, and capacity initiatives.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure engineering standards, documentation practices, drawing control, commissioning discipline, and project closeout expectations are applied consistently.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Support site master planning, bottleneck identification, capacity planning, reliability improvement, and annual capital planning.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coordinate plant engineering support for trials, commercialization, change parts, equipment upgrades, safety improvements, and post-startup stabilization.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Site Directors / Plant Managers to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and remove execution barriers.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with Capital Projects to ensure plant requirements are built into design, installation planning, commissioning, training, and handover.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Drive root cause problem solving for recurring technical issues that cross sites or require engineering escalation.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Manage external engineering support, contractors, OEMs, and vendors for plant engineering work as required.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Escalate 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. </span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What we’re looking for</span></h2> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Undergraduate degree in Engineering, PEng an asset</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong engineering experience within a manufacturing/factory environment.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Significant overall engineering experience, with approximately 10 years being the target profile.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Previous people-management experience, ideally 3–5 years.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on plant engineering experience with exposure to equipment modifications, commissioning/start-up, plant layouts, capacity and bottleneck analysis, reliability improvement, and root cause pro