Maintenance Planner

Position Summary
Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Maintenance & Technical Services, the Maintenance Planner is responsible for ensuring that all aspects of the facility are run smoothly and efficiently. This involves coordination of staff, effective management of resources, and accurate tracking of progress. This role will be primarily responsible for developing standardized job plans, managing, optimizing, coordinating and scheduling required resources to execute the plans with mínimal disruption to production.

Key Accountabilities
- Develop and maintain maintenance job plans, including routine tasks such as Preventive Maintenance, Condition Based Maintenance and Operator Care, utilizing Work Orders within our CMMS system.
- Coordinate and schedule all maintenance and contractor activities.
- Ensuring that all planned maintenance work complies with Safety, Regulatory and industry standards.
- Maintaining accurate records of maintenance work performed, equipment condition, and maintenance costs, through CMMS.
- Working with engineering and the operations teams to plan and implement equipment modifications and upgrades.
- Procuring necessary maintenance supplies and equipment, as required.
- Working with vendors and contractors to; scope, schedule and coordinate equipment repairs.
- Participating in the development and implementation of maintenance policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Perform follow-up on completed Work Orders to ensure; all labor hours, materials, and necessary notes or procedural changes associated with the work are accurately recorded within our CMMS, and the work is closed in a timely manner.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders such as Maintenance/MRO, Operations, Sanitation, Quality Assurance, and Health and Safety, to scope (tasks, effort, part/tool requirements, permits) and prioritize planned work.
- Lead weekly meetings with key stakeholders to develop and communicate maintenance schedules.
- Maintenance related HACCP/CFIA and MSDS documentation and coordinate semi-annual and annual inspections.
- Plan all activities associated with planned plant outages, under the direction of the Maintenance Manager, to provide for maximum use of available resources.
- Acquires various quotes and negotiates contracts with suppliers and vendors, to source the best value on maintenance parts and services.
- Leads the development of Equipment Bill of Materials, ensures critical spares are entered into CMMS and linked to the asset,
- Responsible to maintain all Master Data in our CMMS, such as Equipment and Employees records,
- Support preparation of Approved Funding Expenditure (AFE) documentation for maintenance projects.
- Provide back-up coverage to the Maintenance Supervisor as required.
- Prepare, analyze and communicate work planning KPI's to monitor performance & improvement PM/CM ratio, MTBF, MTTR, etc.,
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities that support increasing wrench time and drive overall work management efficiencies.

**Requirements**:

- Strong communication, negotiation, organization and problem solving skills
- Minimum 5 years of maintenance or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with Facility maintenance including Refrigeration, Air compressor, Fire suppression systems,
- Minimum college diploma, university degree in Engineering or MMP certification is preferred.
- Experience with implementing and in-depth knowledge of maintenance and reliability concepts
- Strong knowledge of production equipment, tools and parts required (i.e. electrical, plumbing, mechanical and technical)
- Knowledge of GMP, Food Safety and Health & Safety requirements
- Experience with using a CMMS (eMaint prefered),
- Ability to communicate in English both verbally, and in writing.
- Advanced computer skills (i.e. Microsoft Office Applications)