Maintenance Planner

Key Responsibilities

• Develop detailed job plans for preventive, predictive, corrective, emergency, and shutdown maintenance activities.
• Assign planned work to maintenance trades personnel and provide ongoing support to ensure successful execution
• Create and maintain weekly, monthly, and long-range maintenance schedules in coordination with Operations
• Review engineering drawings, OEM manuals, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic schematics, and technical documentation to determine repair requirements, replacement components, and system improvements.
• Prepare maintenance work packages that include labor requirements, parts, tooling, safety requirements, permits, drawings, and procedures and assign the work to the tradesman.
• Coordinate weekend maintenance activities, production outage work, and major shutdown events to ensure resources and materials are available for successful execution.
• Identify, source, quote, and purchase required materials, equipment, and replacement parts needed to support maintenance and project activities.
• Manage maintenance programs for overhead cranes, hoists, lifting devices, rigging equipment, and associated systems, ensuring inspections, certifications, repairs, and maintenance activities are completed in compliance with regulatory and company requirements.
• Coordinate all contractor activities, including obtaining quotations, defining scope of work, scheduling contractors, monitoring progress, ensuring safety compliance, and verifying work completion.
• Lead capital and repair projects involving mechanical, hydraulic, and plant systems from concept through completion, including scope development, project submissions, justification preparation, budgeting, cost estimating, scheduling, procurement, implementation, commissioning, and follow-ups. Track project costs, and deliverables to ensure projects are completed safely, on time, and within budget.
• Update and maintain equipment records, bills of materials (BOMs), preventive maintenance procedures, and maintenance documentation within the CMMS.
• Establish new stock items and spare parts inventories for new equipment installations and capital projects.
• Identify critical spare parts requirements and coordinate inventory levels with Purchasing and Stores personnel.
• Support root cause failure analysis, preventive maintenance optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain maintenance backlog management processes and prioritize work based on safety, reliability, production impact, and business objectives.
• Promote a strong safety culture by ensuring all maintenance activities and contractor activities comply with company policies and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Technical diploma, engineering technology diploma, trade certification, or equivalent industrial experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in maintenance planning, maintenance supervision, project management, reliability engineering, or industrial maintenance.
• Strong knowledge of industrial mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and facility systems. Demonstrated ability to read and interpret mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, structural, and technical drawings.
• Experience troubleshooting industrial equipment using engineering drawings, schematics, manuals, and technical documentation.
• Experience planning and coordinating mechanical repairs, outages, shutdowns, and major maintenance activities.
• Experience managing contractors and coordinating multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated experience managing capital and repair projects, including project submissions, cost estimation, budgeting, implementation, and follow-up.
• Knowledge of crane, hoist, and lifting device maintenance and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with CMMS systems such as SAP, Maintenance connection, or similar maintenance management software.
• Strong organizational, communication, planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Outlook, and Project.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining strong collaboration with Operations, Maintenance, Purchasing, and external contractors.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent project management training.
• CMRP, SMRP, or other reliability and maintenance planning certifications.
• Experience within a heavy industrial, manufacturing, foundry, steel, mining, rail, or processing environment.

Key Competencies

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
• Mechanical & Hydraulic Systems Knowledge
• Equipment Troubleshooting & Reliability
• Capital & Repair Project Management
• Contractor Management & Coordination
• Crane & Lifting Device Maintenance
• Inventory & Spare Parts Management
• Budgeting & Cost Control
• Continuous Improvement
• Communication & Team Collaboration
• Safety Leadership
• Technical Problem Solving