Maintenance Planner

Job Description:

Champion Petfoods is expanding! We are excited to announce we are looking for a Maintenance Planner to join our rapidly growing company.

Champion Petfoods is an award-winning pet food maker with a reputation of trust spanning 35+ years. Founded in a small town in Alberta, Canada, Champion – with its ORIJEN® and ACANA® brands – is a key player in the global premium pet food industry across three major geographic regions.

We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about personal and professional growth and see yourself as a key player contributing to our continued success as an award-winning company.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing comprehensive and meaningful maintenance plans; as well as managing, optimizing, coordinating, and scheduling required resources to execute the plans with minimal disruption to production.

This position is responsible for improving work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays; through balancing the availability of internal labour, external contractors, parts & material, and equipment.

This role has a high degree of visibility, where focus and attention are on avoiding unplanned breakdown and increase availability and performance of equipment and processes. This role requires frequent interactions, negotiation, and direct engagement with Management in cross-functional teams such as Production, Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety needs regarding Maintenance planning and execution.

• Develop comprehensive maintenance job plans for Preventative, Lubrication and Predictive maintenance activities.

• Create a scheduling horizon for short, mid, and long-term activities including annual overhauls and new equipment installations.

• Determine and recommend the scope and maintenance strategy (repair/overhaul/replace) of key maintenance work.

• Manage assets history, technical manuals, OEM support contracts and other technical files for inclusion in job plans.

• Visit the floor 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 parts.

• Optimize maintenance labour availability vs. workload to minimize production disruptions.

• Prioritize maintenance work using criticality analysis; schedule work through proactive communications with Maintenance & Production to ensure the highest value and/or most critical work is being scheduled and completed in a timely manner.

• Lead maintenance planning/scheduling meetings where maintenance interventions are synchronized with Production.

• Review and regularly update all maintenance backlogs.

• Provide technical assistance as required for maintenance personnel in executing the work.

• Monitor parts/materials from point of order until staging.

• Minimum of five years of Maintenance Scheduler / Planner experience within manufacturing environment.

• Highly skilled with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems is a must-have skill (CMMS);
  Red Zone is preferred.

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.

• Excellent time management, planning, and prioritization skills.

• Continuous Improvement mindset.

• Advanced computer skills and knowledge of MS Office suite.

• Must possess either a journeyperson ticket (Millwright or Electrical) and/or technical diploma in a related field.

• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) or Certified Maintenance Planner / Scheduler (CMPS) certification considered an asset.

• Working inside a clean, modern, state-of-the‑art pet food manufacturing facility, with brand new equipment.

• Working on business hours from 8am - 4:30pm

• Safety: a strong commitment to ensure all people are provided with a safe, healthy and respectful environment.

• Earnings: Competitive Wages that give financial peace of mind, RRSP with Company, and donation matching.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision and Employee Assistance Programs to meet your individual or family…