Lead Maintenance Planner

Stuart Olson Inc.; Red Deer; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Maintenance Planner in Red Deer. This role offers a unique opportunity to oversee a multi-disciplined maintenance planning team in a dynamic industrial environment. You will be responsible for developing detailed maintenance scopes, optimizing job plans, and ensuring adherence to KPIs. Your expertise in maintenance planning and strong communication skills will be pivotal in fostering positive relationships with clients and team members alike. Join a company with over a century of experience in the construction industry, where your contributions will make a significant impact on operational excellence and safety.

Benefits

Health Benefits

Dental Benefits

Vacation Pay

RRSP's

Qualifications

• 5+ years in maintenance-based trade or experience in Petro-Chemical facility.
• 10-15+ years’ experience with Oil & Gas installations and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee mechanical and E&I Planners, ensuring comprehensive maintenance scopes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure all work is valid and ready to schedule.

Skills

Maintenance Planning

Communication Skills

Risk Assessment

Relationship Management

Education

Trade Certificate

Diploma

Degree

Tools

SAP

MS Projects

Job description

Our Offer to You:

Site: Joffre Alberta

Schedule: 4 days on, 3 days off, 10 hours per day (Long-term maintenance)

Compensation: Competitive wages, Vacation Pay, RRSP’s, Health & Dental Benefits

Why Work For Us:

Stuart Olson is searching for a Lead Maintenance Planner, that is local to the Red Deer area. You will work 4 days on and 3 days off. Work with a team that values safety, fair compensation, and employee experience.

You are:

Experienced working as a maintenance planner on a complex multi-plant Industrial/Petro Chemical facility. As the lead of a multi-disciplined maintenance planning team that is integrated with our client, you are exceptional at forming and maintaining positive relationships. With a solid understanding of maintenance planning, scheduling concepts, and performance metrics, you excel at working with the client and your team, clearly communicating and organizing tasks, complex topics, and changes.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for overseeing mechanical and E&I Planners for:
• Develop detailed, logical, and comprehensive maintenance scopes of work ensuring all required resources including labor, materials, services, equipment, and tooling are included into the completed work package.
• Stewardship to Stuart Olson and the client’s KPI’s to ensure adherence to business unit(s) and corporate objectives.
• Optimize the sequencing of released job plans by considering factors such as multi-craft alignment, travel, and permitting requirements, mobilization needs, and equipment transport logistics.
• Manage work within identified constraints, escalating unresolved issues beyond the role's scope to the appropriate level (e.g. material arrival delays, labor capacity limitations).
• Maintain the integrity of the backlog and understand outstanding work within the area of responsibility.
• Collaborate with Execution, Planning, Reliability, and other stakeholders to ensure all work is valid and ready to schedule.
• Identify risks related to the work and develop safe work plans to mitigate found risks.
• Develop, maintain, and utilize a robust job plan library (task lists) for all types of work, including high frequency break-in work when required.
• Consult repair history of equipment where available to make informed decisions on work scopes and to identify potential repeat issues.
• Support implementation of reliability asset strategies; build and maintain required task lists in collaboration with program planners.
• Provide feedback to schedulers on baseline maintenance schedule, identify potential impacts to schedule as it relates to work orders.
• Seek feedback on package quality and estimates from the field technicians and implement recommended changes.
• Identify and implement improvements in workflow.
• Assist site leadership in performance management and productivity evaluations by discipline.
• Create detailed long text task descriptions for applicable parties.
• Identify any Engineering requirements or additional safety concerns not previously captured.

Qualifications

• Trade Certificate, Diploma, or Degree and a minimum of 5 years in a related maintenance-based trade or extended experience in a Petro-Chemical facility with maintenance-based field operations.
• About 10-15+ years’ experience with Oil & Gas, Petrochemical Facilities installations and maintenance work practices.
• Ability to read, understand and interpret terminology found in blueprints.
• Maintenance and/or plant facility experience.
• Advanced SAP and MS Projects.
• Seasoned knowledge in the application of hazard analysis and risk assessment.
• Ability to forge, grow, and maintain positive relationships with multiple groups.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Working Conditions

• Working both indoors and outdoors in hot and cold weather conditions.
• Must be clean shaven.
• Personal safety equipment will be required, e.g. steel-toed safety boots.

Who We Are:

Stuart Olson has been positively impacting the businesses we serve, the communities in which we operate, and the lives we touch since 1911. Our rich history demonstrates our reach and diversity as an integrated, full service organization serving the commercial and industrial markets.

Specializing in Turnaround and Maintenance services in the Industrial sector, Stuart Olson has proudly served the Canadian construction industry for over 100 years. We deliver confidence through a client-centered approach that ensures the highest quality of service, reducing risk, and delivering results.

While we welcome all applications, only candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted directly.
Unsolicited resumes and phone inquiries from 3rd party agencies will not be accepted.
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