Maintenance Planner and Scheduler

Job Posting:
**Company**

Wonderbrands, is a leading Canadian bakery with 140 years of experience in baking packaged breads. We are the makers of Wonder Bread, Country Harvest, D’Italiano, Gadoua, and Casa Mendosa. We have a network of 14 Bakery Manufacturing facilities across Canada.

**Our Program**:
Do you have a passion to innovate and a desire to challenge the status quo? We are seeking upcoming and recent graduates who are interested in joining an organization that offers opportunities to work in a fun, stimulating, and dynamic environment as a **Maintenance Planners & Scheduler**.

We want to help you unleash your full potential Our Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program is designed for high-potential young professionals, with an objective of training the next generation of leaders and developing our home-grown talent. We create safe and inclusive spaces that encourage you to be you. The result is an agile workplace, filled with Team Members that have a relentless obsession with continuous improvement and an entrepreneurial spirit.

If you are a recent graduate or plan to graduate this year, the Wonderbrands Next Gen Talent Program could be a great opportunity for you. Come join us on our journey to become the world’s great baker

**What Wonderbrands Offers**:

- We believe in Home Grown Talent, accelerated career growth with leadership training; Unleashing Your Potential
- Many of our team members who joined us through similar “new graduate” programs were able to accelerate their career growth and reach high levels in our organization within a few years of joining us
- Competitive Compensation, Health Benefits, and a generous flexible Medical/Health spending account
- Employer matching Pension program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Discount program that covers almost everything under the sun - restaurants, gyms, shopping etc.

**Summary**

Reporting directly to the Site Maintenance Leader, the Maintenance Planner & Scheduler will be part of the team responsible for planning, scheduling and parts acquisition for the Maintenance Department. This role is a key team member in developing, managing and controlling all aspects of planning and scheduling.

**Primary Responsibilities**

Planning:

- Determining the required parts on each work order in the backlog; verifying parts are available and ordering parts as necessary
- Coordinating with procurement to generate material purchase orders and agreed delivery dates
- Determining the need for special support equipment and orders/schedules as necessary
- Determining and controlling the work order planned start date and “Approved” status
- Forecasting and maintaining fleet and component hours by implementing Best Planning Practices
- Planning and coordinating equipment commissions/decommissions
- Review completed PMs and update agreed changes to parts list and tasks
- Review Condition Based Monitoring task lists and update agreed changes
- Promoting and maintaining a safe working environment through compliance with Wonderbrands Health & Safety Program
- Backlog management, including weekly and monthly backlog reviews, purging aged work orders as required
- Conversion of the output of maintenance program development to structured work templates
- Scoping jobs as necessary to include: All necessary job steps, required tooling, drawings and diagrams, parts, manpower, and safety elements to be addressed
- Maintaining and updating work order/event templates
- Tracking and reporting of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Scheduling:

- Verifying resource requirements and availability before scheduling planned work and determine work orders with appropriate status
- Generating and reviewing the 14-day schedule with Maintenance leaders to refine details surrounding current conditions and Operation to incorporate operational concerns and limitations. Modify schedules if required
- Releasing all work orders daily for dissemination to the maintenance leads and trades, ensuring all identified resources are assigned to open work orders
- Maintaining, coordinating and expediting the flow of materials and components for all scheduled work
- Interacting daily with Maintenance Leader to ensure schedules are adhered to and modified as necessary
- Review of completed work orders for recording of required data, planned vs. actual; hours, tools, materials, and safety requirements to identify any required changes or improvements
- Tracking and reporting of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

**About You**:

- Post-secondary education with Engineering degree or a related technical diploma
- Bright, driven and clear about your future career goals
- Ability to learn fast, ambitious and come up with new innovative ideas
- Positive attitude and a results-oriented mindset
- Be a proven team player and work well in a multi-tasking, fast paced environment
- Roll up your sleeves mentality with a whatever it takes mindset to get the job done
- Naturally curious and strong desire to le