Maintenance Planner/coordinator

Are you hungry to innovate? To do things differently? To work with a company that’s real, thoughtful and very forward-thinking?

Meet Riverside. We are an organic, “better for you” snack company, manufacturing award-winning, nutritious, allergen-free snacks. Your kids know us as MadeGood, tasty school-safe snacks. Your buddies on the go grab our GOOD TO GO delicious and nutritious snacks. And your pup begs for a Cookie Pal treat, our human-grade, vegan dog treats.

At Riverside, we make delicious snacks that are good in every way. From our ingredients to our manufacturing practices, we’ve raised every bar on every aspect. We’re friendly and focused on creating foods that are good for you and good to the planet as well. Riverside Natural Foods is B-Corp certified, Triple-Bottom Line, Zero Waste, and Canadian owned and operated.

Come work with a Canadian leader We value teamwork, humility, respect, ownership, adaptability, passion and fun.

We continue to grow and today are looking for a committed, talented, star to join our team as our **Maintenance Planner**.

**Position Summary/Objective**:
The mandate of this position is to support the implementation of Riverside’s Asset Reliability Program at Riverside’s multi
- site locations. The goal of the program is to ensure production equipment at Riverside operates at optimum efficiency and effectiveness by the implementation of Best in Class Asset Reliability Methods.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Exhibit and protect Riverside’s Core Values
- Understand and enforce Health and Safety policies and procedures
- Understand and enforce Food Safety policies and procedures
- Computerized Maintenance Management System
- Audit information to ensure task list, maintenance records, PM log all comments and recommendations are being recorded correctly.
- Assist in the development of equipment histories and prepare information to import to CMMS.
- Manage, update, modify and control Work Order and PM management utilizing existing and future software.
- Planned Maintenance
- Collaborate with Reliability engineer to optimize the pm program
- Process approved planned work tasks including procurement and knitting of parts, task prioritization, work durations, contracting of outside resources, task description scheduling recommendations.
- Propose scheduling of PMs which includes Monthly site-specific PM calendar, Calibration routines, contract required services, as well as Planned maintenance tasks for the Maintenance technicians.
- Update PMs, with procedures, parts, tools etc. needed to efficiently complete PMs and planned work.
- Co-ordinate equipment transfers, PMs and Work Orders with internal Plant team and document the changes (warehouse, Quality, and sanitation).
- Maintain KPIs such as planned vs unplanned, backlog percentage, Pm compliance.
- Provide Support as needed in emergency situations to support the safety, continued production, and equipment reliability.
- Conduct site visits, assessments and interviews to ensure proper planning and WO management.
- Facilities Maintenance
- Initiate facility tasks from work requests or from high level plan
- Assist Facility tasks through suggestion for scheduling based on production schedule including necessary parts and labor requirements.
- Complete any follow-up work or suggestions from Technicians and Supervisors.
- Continuous Improvement:

- Support Continuous Improvement program through parts and outside labor supply, new procedure development and training. Recommend scheduling opportunities.
- Lead and/or participate and/or Support and/or Action Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode Effect analysis and other improvement exercises.
- Committed to Personal development and growth through, self-motivated learning, internal and external training.
- Asset Management:

- Support equipment purchasing and commissioning activity.
- Manage and update asset data and key equipment manuals.
- Engineering Projects
- Management of capital projects as assigned including Project Engineering Methods.
- Other duties as required

**Reporting Relationships**
- Reports to Maintenance Manager
- Facilities/Maintenance Technicians

**Key Objectives**
- Equipment availability metric
- PM Schedule Attainment
- Backlog tracking

**Qualifications**
- Demonstrated experience supervising and coordinating contractors in food manufacturing industry
- Proven purchasing and scheduling aptitude of 10+ individuals both internal and external
- Detailed knowledge of all processing and packaging assets
- Undergraduate degree in Engineering
- 3- 5 years manufacturing environment experience
- Proven desire to learn and express passion for technical fields.
- Strong communication skills and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and AutoCAD, Smart sheet

**What We Offer**:

- Immerse yourself in our comprehensive benefits program, with Riverside taking care of the costs
- RRSP matching or IRA matching for an empowered finan