Maintenance Planner

About the role

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the planning and scheduling of maintenance and limited production tasks, third party services, contractors, and vendors involved in the maintenance, design, improvement, repair of company equipment and facilities.  The Maintenance Planner is critical to support the plant in delivering the operational KPI’s. The Maintenance Planner is cognizant and understanding of food and employee safety and ensures application in their daily routine.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct weekly prioritization meeting to coordinate Maintenance activities.
• Creates work orders from work requests.
• Distributes copies of applicable sketches, word orders, EHS documents,  work lists to supervision.
• Responsible for KPI tracking.
• Responsible for assisting with the development and execution of the maintenance planning process and strategies.
• Support the identification and delivery of opportunities across the site to drive improvement.
• Ensure the Maintenance function is delivering strong asset reliability in line with production requirements.
• Troubleshoot and modify maintenance planning system as needed. 
• Coordinate activities with internal customers and external vendors to ensure that parts and material are available to support overall plant activities production and non-production.
• Responsible for the development of  PMs, MSS, CILs and the improvement process of all.
• Analyzes and plans resources, material and outside service to complete requirements on a Work Order.
• Schedules internal and external resources materials and services to satisfy Work Order requirements.
• Develops work standards and job plans in collaboration with the Supervision.
• Creates and distributes daily/ weekly schedules.
• Ensures Work Orders are closed when completed.
• Facilitates all maintenance planning and scheduling meetings.
• Arranges availability of shared resources.
• Stages material for planned work.
• Manages the department’s technical documentation.
• Manages the department stores.
• Identifies and communicates appropriate safety precautions including internal and external risk assessments.
• Ensures  accuracy of the maintenance management system including equipment history, labor tracking, parts
• Executes tasks as dictated by the role's checklist.
• Establishes for new equipment that the necessary critically assessments, maintenance routines are set up.
• Stages material for planned work.
• Ensures Work Orders are update when parts received.
• Other Duties as assigned.
• Meets/exceeds requirements for food and employee safety.

Environmental / Working Conditions:

• Must be able to freely move around entire facility.
• Ability to work in and be exposed to heat.

About you

• College Diploma/ Engineering degree/Trade Certification; or two years+ 3 yrs related experience in plant maintenance/planning; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• CMRP, MMP Designations an asset.
• Demonstrated leadership and employee engagement skills.
• High level of regulatory technical expertise, continuous improvement and Maintenance best practices.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Intermediate computer skills: Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) 
• SAP knowledge an asset
• Experience with preventative maintenance (PM) programs.
• Ambition and the motivation to succeed and meet goals.
• Organizational and Time management skills.
• Bilingual (English/French) an asset.

Barry Callebaut can offer you a challenging and dynamic international environment that includes a broad range of opportunities for personal growth and development. Apply for one of our interesting positions and start a great career in the wonderful world of CHOCOLATE. Barry Callebaut is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fair and accessible employment practices that attract and retain talented employees. Should you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Human Resources at the Brantford site.