Maintenance Planner, Mechanical

Suncor Energy Inc.; Fort McMurray; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Strong compensation

Health benefits

Generous vacation & personal time-off

Talent development programs

Job summary

Suncor Energy Inc. invites an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Planner to join our Baseplant Extraction Maintenance team north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

You will identify and optimize maintenance plans, work with reliability engineers, and ensure safe, cost-effective scheduling of activities. This 40-hour week requires cross-functional collaboration, strong planning skills, and the ability to read drawings and use scheduling tools.

Qualifications

• Mechanical trade certificate or diploma or equivalent technical experience.
• Experience in extraction/oil sands is an asset.
• 5+ years of maintenance and reliability experience in fixed facilities.

Responsibilities

• Identify and manage factors for safe, cost-effective maintenance plans.
• Improve productivity by optimizing mechanical availability while controlling costs.
• Collaborate with teams to plan maintenance interfaces and ensure safety.
• Adjust planning priorities based on operations, risk, defects, and calendar dates.
• Prepare detailed job plans with multi-craft sequencing.
• Maintain and improve plans via history reviews and field observations.
• Ensure compliance with policies and MOC processes and contribute to standards.

Skills

Mechanical maintenance planning

Maintenance scheduling

MS Office suite

Reading drawings

Education

Mechanical trade certificate or diploma

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

GWOS

IGS

Fieldglass

Ariba

Job description

At Suncor, we produce and provide energy.

When you join Suncor, you become part of a company that has built a solid foundation for both business and employee success. We are a place where talented people thrive. As part of our team, you play a vital role in delivering energy we all rely on, and you’ll make a meaningful impact in the communities where we live and work.

Our Baseplant Extraction Maintenance team is looking for an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Planner to join our team!

What we offer:

We recognize your contribution and offer a range of rewards and development opportunities designed to support your success. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Suncor and the region where you work.

• Strong compensation : we offer competitive compensation, regional-based uplifts, annual bonuses, and long-term financial rewards. We also help you save for your future by offering pension programs, and savings plans with company matching
• Benefits: utilize an employee assistance program and comprehensive company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family to support your mental, physical, and financial well-being
• Generous time-off : enjoy generous paid vacation time and personal time-off to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Talent development programs : Internal mobility, succession planning, and employee training and development programs are just a few ways we’re dedicated to your development

Key Accountabilities:

• Identify and manage all factors relevant to achieving safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective mechanical maintenance plans
• Improve resource productivity by identifying mechanical availability while minimizing costs for the equipment and ensuring that safety is built into every work order
• Work closely with various teams to develop seamless interfaces between functions, to enable the safe, consistent, and reliable planning of all maintenance activities
• Manage and adjust planning priorities according to a combination of factors such as operational requirements, plant risk, defect analysis, and major event calendar dates
• Prepare job plans to include the logical sequencing of associated tasks, taking into account multi-craft alignment
• Maintain and continuously improve job plans and task lists, through analysis of previous work order history, soliciting planning feedback, performing workplace observations, and field walk downs
• Ensure compliance to all our relevant policies and standards including the management of change (MOC) process and maintenance business processes and provide input into the development of procedures and standards
• Be a key member in the integrated maintenance team, working together with reliability engineers, supply chain management, and operations

Qualifications:

• Mechanical trade certificate or diploma in a relevant technical field or equivalent technical or operational experience
• Previous Extraction / Ore Prep experience is considered an asset
• Five or more years of related working knowledge of maintenance and reliability in fixed plant, utilities or infrastructure
• One or more years of planning experience working in oil and gas, water processing plant, or a similar industrial environment
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite of programs
• Working knowledge of computerized maintenance management systems (preferably S4)
• High School Diploma or General Education Diploma (GED)
• Possess a valid driver’s licence and a clean driving record
• Experience with GWOS, IGS, or other scheduling tools
• Experience with Fieldglass & Ariba
• Deep understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling concepts as well as maintenance practices, performance measures, scheduling tools and techniques
• Ability to read and interpret equipment specifications, engineering drawings, single line diagrams, isometric drawings, charts, tables, and other engineering records

Location and Other Key Details:

• You will work out of our Baseplant location north of Fort McMurray, Alberta
• If you reside outside of Fort McMurray, relocation of your primary residence to within 60 km of Fort McMurray is mandatory. To learn more about living and working in Fort McMurray, click here
• This is a 40-hour work week, Monday to Friday, 8 hour shifts

Suncor is committed to providing equal opportunities for employment and building an inclusive, results-oriented and high-performance culture where all members of our team feel safe, valued and respected.