Maintenance Planner

Redpath Sugar Ltd. is located on Toronto’s historic downtown waterfront and has been part of Canada’s heritage for over 160 years.  Redpath Sugar Ltd. is part of ASR Group which is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar, with an annual production capacity of more than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service and specialty sweetener products. In addition to Redpath Sugar Ltd. and across North America, ASR Group owns and operates sugar refineries, located in Louisiana, New York, California, Maryland, and Mexico. In the European Union, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in England, Portugal and Italy.  ASR Group also owns and operates mills in Mexico and Belize.  The company’s brand portfolio includes the leading brands Domino®, C&H®, Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle’s® and Sidul®.  

OVERVIEW

The primary role of the Maintenance Planner is to improve work force productivity and work quality through prevention of potential delays and obstacles through proper planning and coordination of parts, machine time and labor.  He/she is the primary liaison (coordinator) between the operations and maintenance organizations concerning planned work, both during runtime and scheduled downtime. This role also ensures appropriate files, records, and data to produce meaningful analysis and reporting of results and work done.

DETAILED ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Principal contact between the Maintenance department and the operations teams (refinery and packaging)
• Assures the work requested is needed and prioritized based on the business risk.
• Ensures safety needs are given a top priority in work planning.
• Recommends equipment to be included in preventive maintenance programs.
• Leads weekly meetings with Operations and Maintenance to discuss short-term and long-term maintenance needs.
• Receives approved work requests from requesting departments.
• Reviews and screens work requests for clarity. Discusses the details with the requestor as appropriate.
• Examines requests and determines the best way to accomplish the work. Consults with requester, Maintenance Supervisor, Engineering or functional crews when necessary.
• Obtains blueprints, drawings, instructional manuals and special procedures, as needed. Makes any additional sketches, diagrams, etc., necessary to clarify the intent of the work order.
• Arranges any safety permits, hot work, confined space, etc. as part of a work package.
• Estimates jobs with sequence of steps, the number of tradespersons and required labor hours for each step.
• Identifies and obtains determinable materials and critical items, entering material needs on the work order.
• Verifies the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for job execution prior to scheduling.
• Coordinates requisition of all predetermined parts, materials and special tools – and prepare complete kits
• Assembles work package documentation and delivers to area maintenance supervisors.
• Maintains KPI’s for department, creates action plans and develops processes for continuous improvement/development.
• Maintains backlog files of work orders waiting on planning and/or scheduling in accordance with their priorities and an estimated completion date.
• Ensure completed schedules and work orders are returned and reviewed in a timely manner. Monitor work order progress, compliance, and schedule. Evaluate performance metrics and develop action plans. Provides all documents for reporting and closeout.
• Develops a file of standard job plans for regularly recurring repair jobs (reference).
• Reviews the actual labor expended and material consumed versus estimated labor and material for completed jobs with Maintenance Supervisors and provides variance reports to stakeholders.

 WORK EXPERIENCES 

• 3+ years of maintenance planning and scheduling preferred.
• Previous experience within a manufacturing environment with multiple crafts (mechanical, electrical, etc.) required.
• Maintenance scheduling, planning and use of SAP CMMS or ERP required.
• Comprehensive experience in vibration data collection and analysis, lubrication and oil analysis, and balancing, and alignment

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS 

• High school diploma or GED required.
• BAS/BSC degree in a related field from an accredited college/university preferred.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY 

• Effective leader of internal facilitation of planning and scheduling maintenance activities and coordinating contractor service efforts for planned activities

ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES) 

• Works closely with Operations and Maintenance supervision, Stores and Purchasing personnel.
• Adequate trade knowledge to estimate labor hours, materials and visualize job execution.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; good administrative, mathematical, planning and organizational skills.
• Able to read blueprints and shop drawings.
• Orientation and commitment to customer service.
• Ability to communicate/teach reliability best practices, condition monitoring, precision methods.
• Intermediate or better skills in Microsoft Office required.
• Ability to work overtime, weekends and holidays.

RELATIONSHIPS 

• Reports to the Engineering Department Manager.
• No direct reports, but supervision of the maintenance team will be required at times.
• Works closely with operations and maintenance team.
• Works closely with stores, purchasing, quality and finance teams.

LOCATION OF ROLE

• Toronto

RECRUITMENT PROCESS 

• Candidates will take part in multiple interviews, and other testing as required as part of the recruitment and assessment process. 

SALARY RANGE/COMPENSATION 

• $68,000 to $118,000.
• The pay rate for the successful candidate will depend on the candidate’s qualifications and prior experience. 
• This is a vacant position

Job applicants must already be legally eligible to work for Redpath Sugar Ltd. in a full-time permanent role. The company does not provide immigration sponsorship or support for this role.

For more than 100 years, our employees have taken pride in “Making Life a Little Sweeter” by providing our customers and consumers with quality service and sugar products. Our commitment to that principle drives us in all that we do and encourages us to uphold our company’s high ethical standards of business conduct to ensure our continued success.