Maintenance Planner

Mitsui High-tec (Canada), Inc. is a newer manufacturing facility in Brantford and we require a professional Maintenance Planner to join our team There is huge potential for future growth due to our state of the art technology in the ever growing ecofriendly vehicles market. We are looking for a person who exhibits enthusiasm in our dreams and would like to help us reach our long term goals. As a company we would like a person who can grow with us and be an important asset for many years to come.

**Benefits of the Role**:

- Competitive compensation
- Excellent Total Rewards Package (100% company paid medical/dental benefits, vacation, RRSP)
- Clean and safe temperature & humidity-controlled manufacturing environment
- Employer paid uniform and PPE
- Training, development, and growth opportunities

As a key member of the Maintenance department, the Maintenance Planner is to improve workforce productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labour, parts and materials, and equipment access. This position blends the key elements of both a Maintenance Planner and scheduler into one hybrid role. Using the Computerized Maintenance Management System, the Maintenance Planner will effectively plan and schedule corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance activities for the maintenance team and generate monthly Key Performance Indicators. The Maintenance Planner will work closely with the Maintenance Supervisor to create, review and close all work orders within the CMMS System.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Plan and schedule maintenance work to ensure that work is done efficiently with mínimal impact to production
- Create, review, and close all work orders in the CMMS system
- Create bill of materials for all preventative maintenance
- Enter data from completed breakdown, preventative, and predictive maintenance work orders to CMMS
- Work with MRO coordinator to ensure all parts required for preventative, predictive, and project work are in stock before issuing a work order to the maintenance team as well as ensuring/auditing all critical spares
- Manage onsite stores and ensure the availability of parts/materials to execute work, as well as establishing and maintaining proper spare parts/consumable inventory and generating RFPs for re-orders
- Participate in weekly maintenance scheduling meetings
- Coordinate work assignments and scheduling of maintenance technicians needed to successfully execute planned maintenance activities
- Continually review and optimize the preventative and predictive maintenance activities
- Participate in failure analysis and operational improvement activities
- Maintain and ensure compliance with maintenance contracts
- Participate in 5S and Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)
- Other duties as required

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 2 years’ experience in a Maintenance Planner role or related experience
- Highschool diploma or equivalent
- Understanding and experience with IATF1649:2016 and ISO/TS16949 certification systems
- Proficiency with CMMS Software
- Automotive industry experience considered an asset
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with a wide range of office/plant team members, management, senior executives, and external parties
- Strong work ethic and sense of responsibility
- Well-developed organization, time management, multi-tasking, and problem solving skills
- Intuitive, able to anticipate needs and respond with a sense of urgency
- Action-oriented, flexible, dedicated and committed
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
- Mitsui High-tec (Canada), Inc. strives to create a respectful, accessible and inclusive work environment._
- We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted._