Maintenance planner
Maple Leaf Foods based in Mississauga, ON is inviting applications from suitable candidates for the position of Maintenance planner. Maple Leaf Foods is a prominent Canadian food company, specializing in high-quality meat products. Providing a diverse range, including bacon and poultry, it prioritizes food safety and sustainability. As a key player in the food industry, it functions with a commitment to ethical practices, contributing to its strong market presence and reputation for delivering trusted, nutritious food options. The candidates selected for the vacancy will be required to start the work as soon as possible.
Job Description:
Employer Name: Maple Leaf Foods
Position: Maintenance planner
No of Vacancies: 1
Salary: Salary is not mentioned, $15.00-$25.00 hourly estimated salary
Employment Type: Full time
Location: Mississauga, Courtneypark Dr., ON, Canada
Requirements:
Languages: Candidates must have knowledge of the English Language
Education: Candidates should have a journeyman’s ticket, PMP and/or related technical diploma
Experience: Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in applying proven Maintenance best practices in an industrial environment
Other Requirements:
- The candidates should be an experienced Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Specialist with strong leadership and communication skills
- The candidates should work well in a team environment, demonstrating responsibility, reliability, and openness to change
- The candidates should be very organized, structured, results-oriented, and quality-driven and should promote and maintain a safe working environment through compliance with MLF’s Health and Safety Program, including Food Safety and Environmental compliance
- The candidates should be experienced and trained in planning and scheduling techniques, proficient in a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and MS Office, and familiar with applying Standard Operating Procedures in their work
- The candidates should follow company policies, standards, and guidelines as they apply to all activities and play a key role in managing and coordinating Work Management activities, developing comprehensive maintenance job plans that facilitate the safe and effective execution of work
- The candidates should develop timely schedules for the comprehensive job plans, ensuring the maximum use of maintenance manpower, availability of parts, and minimized interruption to Production
Responsibilities:
- The candidates should be able to ensure adherence to the work prioritization process, review Work Requests for accuracy, duplication, and convert them to Work Orders and prioritize corrective work derived from preventive maintenance (PM) work orders (WO) with high priority
- The candidates should be able to 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 and determine the scope, general strategy (repair/replace), and coordination requirements of work
- The candidates should be able to 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 and create, use, and maintain plant history and other technical files, including information in current job plans to anticipate and avoid job delays
- The candidates should be able to develop condition-based monitoring routes, load levels, and seed dates, review, update, and optimize PM routes and bills of materials (BOMs) in SAP and maintain progress charting systems (Gantt charts, Flow diagrams) for the scheduling function
- The candidates should be able to 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 and work with stores to ensure the availability of parts/materials to execute work
- The candidates should be able to 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
- The candidates should be able to lead post PM and completed Work Order quality reviews and 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
- The candidates should be able to create appropriate equipment files to ensure timely updates with relevant maintenance and repair histories, review and regularly update all maintenance backlogs and provide technical assistance as required for maintenance personnel in executing the work
- The candidates should be able to monitor parts/materials from the point of order until staging, develop extended schedules that facilitate the 3-year Plan and maintain up-to-date visual boards utilized in the workshop so all parties can see daily work scope and weekly KPI’s
- The candidates should be able to calculate wrench time for each work group from time recorded against the WO and 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
- The candidates should be able to ensure that job feedback, part, and procedural problems identified during Work Execution are used to update procedures and enhance future execution and analyze planned and completed WO and solicit input from key staff in improving current and future job plans
- The candidates should be able to work with Engineering to integrate Capital (CapEx) project changes into the asset hierarchy, BOMs, and PMs and review the physical asset hierarchy in SAP when an asset is modified, a new asset is installed, or an asset is relocated or discarded
- The candidates should be able to review/update documents in SAP in conjunction with a change to the physical hierarchy and use criticality ranking, priority, due date, and age of the WO to prioritize work to be planned and scheduled
- The candidates should be able to apply a simple lifecycle costing (LLC) strategy when deciding between maintain, overhaul, or replacing components and plan and schedule within budgeted overtime limits
- The candidates should be able to 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 and collect and track KPIs related to the planning and scheduling function
Benefits:
- The candidates will get competitive health and wellness benefits, defined contribution pension plan, comprehensive tuition reimbursement program
How to apply:
If the position is fit for you and the basic requirements are fulfilled then you can now apply directly to the employer (along with your resume) through the below-mentioned details.
We thank all the applicants for showing their interest and trust in us, however, only the most eligible candidates will be selected and conducted for further procedure directly from employers, in between no charges/fees or original documents will be asked from any applicant. All the best!