Strategic Maintenance Scheduler & CMMS Lead

Winland Foods Canada Inc; Stoney Creek; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

RRSP with Match

Life Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

EAP

Job summary

Winland Foods Canada Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Planner/ Scheduler in Stoney Creek, Ontario, to optimize labour, materials, and equipment availability.

This role partners with Operations and Maintenance to manage preventive maintenance, backlog, CMMS data, and asset reliability while leading weekly scheduling meetings. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in maintenance or plant operations, a high school diploma or GED (technical degree preferred), and strong analytical, mechanical, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in maintenance or plant operations.
• High school diploma or GED; technical degree preferred.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA preferred.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work both tactically and strategically, independently making informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling: Plan, prioritize, and schedule maintenance work to maximize available labor and minimize delays, coordinating resources, materials, parts, contractors, and equipment access.
• Work Order Management: Review and prioritize work requests, convert requests into planned work orders, manage short- and long-term backlog, and use completed work-order feedback to improve future planning.
• Preventive Maintenance: Develop and optimize preventive maintenance programs using OEM recommendations, root-cause analysis, and maintenance team learnings.
• CMMS Management: Serve as the CMMS Super User, maintain asset hierarchy and critical-asset BOM information, and train other team members on the system.
• Maintenance Coordination: Provide guidance to maintenance personnel and contractors during planned downtime, PM activities, work orders, and machine-specific maintenance activities.
• Operations Partnership: Act as a liaison between Operations and Maintenance and lead the weekly Maintenance Scheduling Meeting.
• Parts & MRO Support: Support parts acquisition, MRO inventory management, and organization. Vacation back up the MRO Buyer for issuing PO’s.
• Cost & Performance Management: Estimate labour, material, and contractor costs; identify cost-saving opportunities; analyze maintenance costs; and recommend corrective actions when appropriate.
• KPI & Reporting: Create and track maintenance KPIs in Excel using CMMS reporting and maintain work orders, requisitions, activity reports, and daily logbooks.
• Continuous Improvement: Develop standard work-order plans for recurring repairs to improve planning efficiency and consistency.
• Capital Projects: Support the project engineering team with new asset updates in the CMMS.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

SAP S/4HANA

Mechanical knowledge

Electrical knowledge

Analytical skills

Leadership

Excel

Education

High school diploma or GED

2-year technical degree preferred

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Winland Foods Canada Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Planner/ Scheduler in Stoney Creek, Ontario, to optimize labour, materials, and equipment availability.

This role partners with Operations and Maintenance to manage preventive maintenance, backlog, CMMS data, and asset reliability while leading weekly scheduling meetings. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in maintenance or plant operations, a high school diploma or GED (technical degree preferred), and strong analytical, mechanical, and