The Opportunity

You’re a skilled maintenance professional with a passion for keeping equipment and facilities running smoothly in a food manufacturing environment. You thrive in dynamic settings, enjoy troubleshooting mechanical challenges, and take pride in ensuring reliable, secure operations. Focused on safety, efficiency, and collaboration, you’re looking for an opportunity to make a meaningful impact at a growing company.

Apex Foodsource Ltd is a best-in-class manufacturer of innovative and custom food products for leading food brands across North America. We do more than produce food—we help our customers bring high-quality, reliable products to market. By enhancing what our clients offer consumers, we create memorable food experiences and dining moments. We are business geeks specializing in food, and we value growth, learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

- Every role at Apex Foodsource contributes to our company values of honesty, respect, excellence, and stewardship._

Position Summary

At Apex Foodsource Ltd, the Maintenance Technician is responsible for the installation, inspection, adjustment, repair, and ongoing reliability of all production machinery, utilities, and plant premises. This role plays a critical part in minimizing unplanned downtime by diagnosing mechanical issues, responding promptly to breakdowns, and restoring equipment and facility systems safely and efficiently to production-ready condition. The Maintenance Technician owns the execution of corrective and routine maintenance and is accountable for ensuring equipment and premises are fit for use before being released back to production.

Reporting to the Director of Operations, the Maintenance Technician also executes preventive maintenance activities in accordance with established schedules and procedures,



supports continuous improvement of equipment and facility reliability, and works closely with Production, Quality, and Operations to ensure maintenance activities meet food safety, GMP, and health and safety requirements. This role includes responsibility for maintaining the plant premises, utilities, and infrastructure that support food production. Welding and fabrication skills are preferred. Success in this role is defined by reliable equipment and facility performance, timely completion of preventive maintenance, reduced unplanned downtime, and safe, compliant maintenance execution.

What You’ll Do

- Install, inspect, adjust, troubleshoot, and repair production machinery, equipment, utilities, and plant premises.
- Gather and provide accurate technical information, specifications, and part requirements for equipment, components, and maintenance needs to support purchasing by the Supply Chain team.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with external vendors and contractors to support equipment, utility, and facility maintenance activities as required.
- Diagnose mechanical and facility-related issues and respond promptly to unplanned breakdowns to minimize downtime.
- Perform corrective and routine maintenance and verify equipment and premises are fit for use before returning to production.




- Execute preventive maintenance activities according to established schedules and procedures for both equipment and facility systems.
- Perform lubrication, mechanical upkeep, minor fabrication, minor building repairs, and general maintenance as required.
- Operate machine tools to fabricate or modify parts during maintenance, overhaul, or equipment or facility setup.
- Perform welding and fabrication tasks where qualified (preferred skill).
- Work closely with Production to prioritize maintenance issues based on operational impact and coordinate the timing of repairs and preventive maintenance.
- Support equipment startups, changeovers, and production troubleshooting as required.
- Ensure all maintenance activities comply with GMPs and food safety requirements, including pre-operational and post-maintenance considerations for food-contact equipment and adjacent areas.
- Support Quality and Food Safety investigations related to equipment or premises issues that may impact product.
- Communicate recurring failures, equipment or premises risks, and maintenance needs in a timely manner.
- Perform all work in accordance with health and safety requirements, including lockout/tagout, hot work, and protected work practices.
- Immediately escalate issues related to equipment or premises that present food safety risks, uncontrolled safety hazards, repeated temporary repairs, or potential needs for capital repair or replacement.
- Use and maintain the Limble CMMS system for maintenance work orders, preventive maintenance scheduling, and documentation.

What We’re Looking For

- Minimum 3+ years of experience in industrial or food manufacturing maintenance or a similar role.
- Technical or vocational training in mechanical maintenance or a related field is preferred.
- Experience working in a food manufact

📌 Maintenance Technician - Food Manufacturing (Abbotsford)
🏢 Apex FoodSource
📍 Abbotsford