Job Description:
Maintenance Planner & Scheduler in our food manufacturing facility oversees the strategic planning, scheduling, parts inventory and coordination of maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability, regulatory compliance, and minimal production downtime.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Maintenance Strategy & Planning
- Develop and manage preventive, predictive, corrective and condition-based maintenance plans.
- Create and maintain long-term maintenance schedules (up to 18 months) aligned with production goals.
- Develop and manage work orders and job plans using CMMS (CMMS experience is a must, Maintain X is a preferred CMMS).
Regulatory & Safety Compliance
- Ensure all maintenance activities meet food safety standards (e.g., HACCP, SQF, GMP).
- Maintain maintenance documentation for audits and inspections.
- Collaborate with QA, and safety teams to uphold hygiene, personnel and food safety protocols.
Resource Management and Coordination
- Manage and schedule technicians, contractors and equipment access to minimize production disruption in coordination with Production and QA.
- Order, maintain and manage spare parts inventory.
- Optimize labor, material usage and inventory to improve cost-efficiency.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Liaise with production, engineering, quality departments to align maintenance with operational and other business needs.
- Lead maintenance planning meetings and communicate priorities to stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement
- Analyze work center performance data and predict trends for servicing needs.
- Enter data into the CMMS and develop PM plans for equipment.
- Work with departments to ensure sufficient spares are available. Order parts if and when needed.
- Ensure the system is updated to include all required info.
- Develop a PM schedule for new and existing machines/equipment.
- Send out requests for PM and order spare parts for any outstanding work found during the PM.
- Ensure PMs are completed on time and reschedule if or when needed.
- Establish and maintain suitable inventory levels for spare parts.
- Create spare part list and organize by machines in order to easily track where parts are being used most.
- Analyze daily stock movement and establish visuals for min and max stock quantities.
- Support capital projects, as well as equipment repairs and upgrades.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: 3-5 years in food manufacturing maintenance planning, preferably in a large or medium-size food manufacturing facility.
- Education: Bachelor’s Diploma or degree in mechanical/electrical engineering or industrial maintenance is an asset.
- Systems: Proficiency in CMMS software (Maintain X preferred, but not a must) and Microsoft Office (especially Excel & Word).
- Knowledge: Strong understanding of maintenance best practices and food safety regulations.
- Analytical skills: including troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills, effective in quickly identifying issues, causes and sustainable corrective actions.
- Detail & Technically Oriented: Ability to read/understand and analyze Electrical, Mechanical, Electronics & other Equipment / Machinery / Facilities Drawings and Schematics to plan out maintenance programs
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, time management, organizational and team building abilities.
If you are ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to a dynamic team dedicated to quality, apply now—your expertise could be the missing piece in our success story!
Pay: $80,000.00-$90,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Work Location: In person
