Maintenance Planner

Job Summary

Reporting to the Supervisor, Plant Maintenance Planning, the Maintenance Planner coordinates the planning and scheduling of the Region's maintenance program, supporting approximately $2.7 billion in assets across Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment, and Biosolids facilities.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Plan and Schedule maintenance activities in collaboration with Maintenance and Operations Supervisors. Also ensuring that other functions that could be involved in maintenance activities are aware of the work, such as Engineering, Utilities, Operations, and Contractors etc.
• Coordinates weekly scheduling and backlog management activities to ensure maintenance work is prioritized, resourced, and completed in accordance with operational and reliability objectives.
• Responsible for maintaining and developing preventive maintenance plans within SAP. Including that equipment has the optimum maintenance strategies applied to optimize reliability.
• Maintains the integrity of SAP asset master data and ensures asset registers, preventive maintenance plans, and predictive maintenance programs are accurate and aligned with maintenance and reliability strategies.
• Work with Trades to plan work on site confirming work scope, resource requirements, and operational considerations to develop accurate plans and schedules.
• Collaborate with Regulatory bodies, Corporate, Operational and Trade partners to provide all required data and plans as required.
• Develops, monitors, and reports on maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including schedule compliance, backlog health, preventive maintenance effectiveness, and asset reliability, and recommends continuous improvement initiatives.
• Liaises with department staff, vendors and contractors to ensure that all new equipment is accurately identified, relevant data is collected and updated into SAP database within appropriate timeframes. 
• Applies Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles to optimize maintenance strategies, improve asset reliability, and reduce lifecycle costs.

Duties & Responsibilities (cont'd)

• Reviews the performance of assets to ascertain reliability and overall performance and provides assessment on the competitiveness of the service.
• Incorporates the Ministry of Environment (MOE), Ministry of Labour (MOL) and Drinking Water Quality Management System (DWQMS) requirements into the Maintenance Program.
• Prepares financial, asset performance, and reliability analyses to support lifecycle planning, capital forecasting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills & Qualifications

• Must either be a licensed tradesperson, or have a degree in engineering, engineering technology diploma.
• Preference will be given to applicants who are either trades, or have qualifications, in one of the following three disciplines: Electrical, Mechanical, Instrumentation
• Either previous planning experience, or experience working in a technical position within a Maintenance Team is preferred. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience with using SAP in a municipal maintenance setting. 
• Demonstrated experience working in a unionized environment, with thorough knowledge of applicable legislation and regulations governing industrial workplaces and a strong focus on health and safety, is required.
• Experience with water and wastewater treatment equipment, maintenance practices, and regulatory compliance is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of planning, scheduling, and an ability to lead in terms of good practice.
• A good understanding of the Occupational Health & Safety Act. 
• Excellent written and oral communication, problem-solving, priority setting, customer service skills.
• The ability to lead in a team environment and liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders. 

Working/ Employment Conditions

• Current, original and acceptable Criminal Records Check (obtained within the past six (6) months).
• A copy of driver’s license and a driver’s abstract.