Maintenance Planner

The Planner has strong leadership and communication skills, works well in a team environment, is responsible and reliable, and is open to change. The person is very organized, structured, results oriented and quality driven.

The Maintenance Planner promotes and maintains a safe working environment through compliance with MLF’s Health and Safety Program. This includes Food Safety and Environmental compliance.
**Snapshot of a Day-in-the-Life**:

- Ensure the work prioritization process is adhered to.
- Review Work Requests for accuracy, duplication and convert to Work Orders.
- Prioritize corrective work derived from preventive maintenance (PM) work orders (WO) with high priority.
- Plan and schedule work requests originating in SAP that are not prioritized as an emergency or break-in work.
- Develop comprehensive, thorough maintenance job plans that facilitate the safe and effective execution of work.
- Determine the scope, general strategy (repair/replace) and coordination requirements of work.
- Create a scheduling horizon that is at least 4 weeks.
- Route non-emergency Work orders for approval at the correct organizational level against defined acceptance criteria based on the business risk.
- Create, use and maintain plant history and other technical files to include information in current job plans to anticipate and avoid job delays.
- Develop condition-based monitoring routes, load levels, and seed dates.
- Review, update and optimize PM routes and bills of materials (BOMs) in SAP.
- Maintain progress charting systems (Gantt charts, Flow diagrams) for the scheduling function.
- Develop Work Order standard jobs for repetitive work.
- Visit the site with the goal of increasing team productivity by removing all obstacles to executing the work safely, correctly and with minimum downtime and effort. Adopt the concept of eyes on the job and eyes on the parts.
- Work with stores to ensure the availability of parts / materials to execute work.
- Ensure the maximum use of maintenance manpower and minimize production disruptions.
- Lead scheduling meetings where Maintenance interventions are synchronized with Production according to business needs.
- Develop schedule loading and publish a 4-week horizon schedule with the understanding of manpower availability, operational requirements and a knowledge of time, cost and quality estimating.
- Lead post PM and completed Work Order quality reviews.
- Create appropriate equipment files to ensure timely updates with relevant maintenance and repair histories.
- Review and regularly update all maintenance backlogs.
- Provide technical assistance as required for maintenance personnel in executing the work.
- Monitor parts/materials from point of order until staging.
- Develop extended schedules that facilitate the 3-year Plan.
- Maintain up to date visual boards utilized in the workshop so all parties can see daily work scope and weekly KPI's.
- From time recorded against the WO, calculate wrench time for each work group.
- Coordinate the arrival of materials, people, parts, and equipment to the job site so that they are on time and available in the logical order per the scheduled work plan.
- Ensure that job feedback, part and procedural problems identified during Work Execution are used to update procedures and enhance future execution.
- Analyze planned and completed WO and solicit input from key staff in improving current and future job plans.
- Work with Engineering to integrate Capital (CapEx) project changes into the asset hierarchy, BOMs and PMs.
- Review physical asset hierarchy in SAP as part of the process when an asset is modified, a new asset is installed, or an asset is relocated or discarded.
- Review/update documents in SAP in conjunction with a change to the physical hierarchy.
- Criticality ranking, priority, due date and age of the WO are used to prioritize work to be planned and scheduled.
- Plan and schedule within budgeted overtime limits.
- Forecast and review resource needs based on an integrated Production Schedule and backlog data.
- Participate in the Maintenance department’s continuous improvement and knowledge collection efforts.
- Collect and track KPIs related to the planning and scheduling function.

**What You’ll Bring**:

- 2 years of study in a related field, technical school diploma, university or equivalent, plus a trade, apprenticeship or operating training
- Highly organized individual capable of managing multiple projects in a fast paced environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office computer skills. Individuals with SAP knowledge are preferred
- Maintenance Planning experience in a manufacturing environment

**What We Offer at Maple Leaf Foods**:

- Being part of a high-performance, people-focused company that has an inspiring and unique vision to become the most sustainable protein company on earth, and a deep commitment to sustainable protein across North America.