Maintenance Planner Jobs

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Overview

The prime objective of the Maintenance Planner is to improve the efficiency and productivity of maintenance own personnel and third party maintenance services through a good planning, follow up and optimization of all preventive and corrective maintenance tasks. In addition to achieve the set targets for equipment availability / reliability at the lowest optimum and sustainable maintenance cost, in collaboration with all involved departments or sub-departments, following the maintenance guidelines (CIF and MAC) defined by the company.

Responsibilities

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure that any changes to plant equipment are verified by Health, Safety and Environment Managers and other departments to ensure that corporate and regulatory requirements are met.
• Demonstrate a commitment to communication, improvement and adherence to safety policies on all work environments and with employees, subcontractors and site visitors.
• Identifies, plans and collaborates with the Environment team for compliance with legislation and policies.
• Knowledge and support of the cement plant’s ISO 14001 environmental management system including awareness of the specific responsibilities described in the program.

Maintenance Planning

• Examine and priories maintenance activities with team members.
• Plan the weekly, monthly, yearly and long-term maintenance plans.
• Plan all work orders by assigning the required parts, tools, procedures, drawings, and resources to the work.

Major Outages

• Plan maintenance activities for the major/annual outages well in advance by identifying and tracking the status of long lead spares and services using STO modules in SAP.
• Follows the preparation and consolidation of the shutdown planning (personal, third parties services, materials, spare parts, equipment, tools, time, critical path) with coordination meetings following the established guidelines and tools.
• Tracking daily progress and costs of major outages through daily meetings.

Equipment Availability

• Contribute to the reliability of the equipment by daily review of maintenance request and collaborating with production and inspectors to assess priority and criticality of maintenance activities.
• Provide technical and operational support along with applying and reviewing maintenance procedures and systems.

Scope Of Work

• Write a detailed scope of work for all major work. Identify skills required

Inventory

• Work closely with stores and purchasing personnel to ensure that inventory levels are maintained to an optimal level without compromising plant reliability or the effective completion of mechanical tasks.
• Generate and follow up purchase requests for materials, spare and wear parts, ensuring just in time delivery.

Equipment Catalogue

• Ensure the equipment parts catalog (both in SAP and equipment folders) reflects all plant equipment changes and obtain proper resource for future upgrades so that the catalog continues to be a reliable reference tool for the whole plant

Maintenance Performance

• Track all statistics related to the Maintenance Department Activities (KPI) i.e: repeat work, PM compliance, machinery failure, MTBF, Equipment net availability, etc.
• Ensure productivity, housekeeping and quality of work standards are maintained within the mechanical maintenance department through sound planning and practices.

Maintenance Cost

• Estimates, tracks and controls the cost of maintenance work orders.
• Adjust maintenance planning accordingly to remain within budgetary constraints.
• Plans for cost effective maintenance activities aiming for optimization of resources e.g. people, contractors, spares and equipment downtime.

Communication

• Acts as the main point of contact between the maintenance team and operations group to ensure optimum maintenance, reliability and availability of the equipment.

Operational Meeting

• Represent the maintenances team in the operational meetings, determine maintenance priorities, plan shutdown period and optimize maintenance during those times.

Continual Improvement

• Continually review and evaluate methods, processes, tools, equipment to optimize the maintenance function. Follows the performance of the established maintenance performance indicators and implements corrective measures for continuous improvement

Subcontractors

• Plan and coordinate work carried out by third parties. Oversees third party work in order to support maintenance activities.

Relationships With Others Jobs

• The role reports directly to the Preventative Maintenance Engineer. The Maintenance Planner works closely with the various managers and supervisors who influence and/or manage the overall maintenance of the plant. The Maintenance Planner is in direct contact with the employees of the various departments in order to exchange best practices and integrate them in the preparation of the work.

Specific Accountabilities

• Act in a matter to optimize the key performance indicators of the plant, both Maintenance and Production
• Update and maintain the department files and historical data related to the maintenance work.
• Responsible for the planning of all the daily and major maintenance activities of the department before they are ready for execution by assigning the required parts, tools, procedures, drawings, and outside resources to the work.
• Ensure productivity, housekeeping and quality of work standards are maintained within the mechanical maintenance department through sound planning practices.

Dimensions

• Maintenance Budget: $13M
• Indirect Reports: 0
• Volume: 1,000,000 t
• Shipping by rail and trucks
• Quarry, fuel mill, 2 kilns, 2 raw mills, 2 finish mills
• Direct Reports: 0

Qualifications

Education & Work Experience:

• Excels in planning major work and plant shutdowns using computer software
• Extensive experience in heavy industrial equipment repair; experience in inspection and welding an asset.
• Experience with Computerized Maintenance System (SAP)
• College degree in industrial maintenance.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience in a heavy industry. Cement experience an asset.

Knowledge And Skills

• Strong computer skills.
• Knowledge of problem solving techniques (i.e. Pareto Analysis, Root Cause Failure Analysis, etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to interact with plant personnel.
• Proven ability to work well in a team environment (co-workers, suppliers, etc.)
• Well organized and systematic.
• Highly motivated with ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated commitment to achieving organizational and personal goals.
• Strong communicator (both oral & written).

Job-Specific Competency Profile

• Organizing
• Priority Setting
• Action Oriented
• Functional/Technical Skills
• Customer Focus
• Conflict Management
• Problem Solving
• Informing
• Planning
• Decision Quality

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As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are passionate, driven by curiosity and keen to grow, learn, develop and thrive in our high-performance culture.

Whatever you do, you will make a difference here. Because we know that your passion and curiosity are the natural resources the world needs.

We thank you for your interest. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Lafarge is committed to the principles of employment equity and encourages the applications from women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Lafarge Canada Inc. welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. In Ontario, our organization/business is committed to fulfilling our requirements under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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Lafarge Canada is committed to providing a safe environment for employees, customers, contractors and vendors. As such, in keeping with the requirements of our industry associations, partners, and clients across Canada, Lafarge Canada has implemented a COVID-19 vaccination policy intended to reduce the spread of COVID-19. As of October 1st, 2021, all new employees joining Lafarge Canada, subject to any requirement to accommodate pursuant to applicable human rights legislation, must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.