Maintenance Planner/Scheduler

Reporting to the Reliability Maintenance Manager, the Maintenance Planner/Scheduler is responsible for the safe, efficient, and cost-effective completion of all maintenance projects in the mill during regular and annual maintenance days, through the planning of such projects. The Maintenance Planner has a role in improving workforce productivity and quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning, scheduling, and coordination of maintenance resources, parts, materials, and equipment access in order to promote excellence as established in the Company vision, mission, and values.
What you will do:
Responsible for the safety of all employees and more specifically the maintenance team members and contractors working on a maintenance project.

• Achieve the goal of no lost time accidents.
• Work with the maintenance teams and the Safety & Environmental Manager to ensure that all safety hazards or concerns are dealt with in a timely fashion.
• Ensure all contractors have WCB and liability insurance coverage before they begin and work. 
• Ensure all contractors and their employees have the required certificates for the work they are performing.
• Ensure all contractors and their employees have taken the contractor orientation and know and follow all company safety regulations while on site.

Task-Specific (Specific tasks that are part of the Planner/Scheduler’s regular duties)

• Converts “approved” work requests into work orders
• Assists as required with daily work request review
• Identifies required parts for planned jobs
• Arranges “pre-scheduled” contractors and assures that contractors meet requirements for qualifications such as confined space, etc.
• Creates “Job Plans” including the required;
  • Labor
  • Materials
  • Services
  • Tools
  • Procedures
  • “Walks down” critical jobs
• Creates Standard tasks
• Updates PMs in the CMMS
• Manages the PM schedule
• Gathers Input and facilitates shutdown and weekly work schedules to lock down stage
• Facilitates backlog reviews
• Verifies parts are in the system prior to shutdowns