At Kruger Products we have a shared vision for greatness. We manufacture some of North America’s most popular tissue brands - Cashmere®, Purex®, Scotties®, SpongeTowels®, Bonterra®, White Cloud®, as well as products for use away from home.
We are leaders in our industry, leaders in our communities, and leaders in sustainability. Our headquarters is in Mississauga, ON, and we proudly have nearly 3,000 employees across North America, including 10 manufacturing plants in Quebec, British Columbia, Ontario, and Tennessee.
We are seeking a Red Seal–certified Industrial Millwright to join our maintenance team who is focused on the role of Maintenance Planner. This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimizing preventative and corrective maintenance activities while leveraging hands-on millwright expertise to improve equipment reliability, safety, and uptime. The successful candidate will act as a key link between maintenance execution, operations, and leadership—ensuring work is properly scoped, planned, scheduled, and ready before execution
What You Can Expect…
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
- Develop detailed job plans for corrective, preventative, and shutdown maintenance activities
- Accurately scope work including labor, tools, materials, parts, and safety requirements
- Assist the Reliability Engineer to build and maintain preventative maintenance (PM) strategies and job plans within the CMMS (SAP)
- Help to coordinate maintenance schedules between maintenance and operations to minimize downtime
- Review and help prioritize work requests based on safety, production impact, and asset criticality
- Analyze maintenance history and CMMS data to improve planning accuracy.
Technical & Trade Expertise
- Apply Red Seal millwright expertise to ensure job plans are practical, safe, and executable
- Provide technical guidance on rotating equipment, conveyors, hydraulics, pneumatics, and gearboxes
- Support troubleshooting and failure analysis to improve long-term equipment reliability
- Validate job plans through field walkdowns and collaboration with tradespeople
- Experience with rigging and overhauling heavy industrial equipment is considered an asset
- Reliability & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to shift reactive work to planned and preventative maintenance
- Support reliability initiatives including PM optimization and job plan standardization
- Participate in shutdown and outage planning, execution, and post-job reviews
Coordination & Communication
- Work closely with trades, supervisors, engineers, and operations personnel
- Ensure materials and spare parts are kitted and available prior to scheduled work
- Communicate plan readiness, constraints, and schedule impacts clearly
- Promote safety, quality workmanship, and maintenance best practices
What We Expect…
- Red Seal Journeyman Millwright (Industrial Mechanic)
- Experience in a Maintenance Planner or Scheduler role
- 3-5 years of industrial maintenance experience
- Strong understanding of mechanical systems and industrial equipment
- Working knowledge of CMMS systems (SAP preferred)
- Strong organizational, communication, and documentation skills
- Solid understanding of lockout/tagout and safe work practices
- Preferred But Not Required:
- Reliability or asset management training (RCM, PdM, RCA)
- Experience in manufacturing, pulp & paper, mining, or heavy industrial environments
- Computer skills including Excel and reporting toolsCompensation
- Base payrate of $54.79/Hour + $3.00 positional premium for a planner
- Safety boot allowance
- Extended Health Benefits (after first 40 days)
Our mission is to make everyday life more comfortable. Together we bring this mission to life. As an ever-evolving business, there are always exciting new challenges, diverse career paths, and opportunities to innovate. Be part of a recognized employer – Greater Toronto Top Employer since 2013, Deloitte’s Best Managed Companies since 2018, and Forbes Best Employers in Canada.
Join Kruger Products and Expect to do Something Great.
Kruger Products is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under KP’s Accessibility Policy and Multi-Year Accessibility Plan - 1.04.33. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.
We would like to thank all applicants for their interest in Kruger Products. Only selected candidates will be invited to an interview.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $54.79 per hour
Benefits:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- New Westminster, BC V3M 1Z7: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have a strong understanding of mechanical systems and industrial equipment?
- do you have experience in reliability or asset management training (RCM, PdM, RCA)?
- Do you have experience in manufacturing, pulp & paper, mining, or heavy industrial environments?
Experience:
- Maintenance Planner or Scheduler role: 3 years (required)
- Industrial maintenance: 3 years (required)
Language:
Licence/Certification:
- Red Seal Millwright Certification (required)
Work Location: In person
