Maintenance Planner - Richmond, Canada - Metro Vancouver

Metro Vancouver

Verified Company

Richmond, Canada

1 week ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Department:
Liquid Waste Services

Employee Group:

GVRDEU

Location:
Iona WWTP, Richmond (1000 Ferguson Road)

Salary Range/ Wage Rate:
$93,485 per annum plus 6.25% deferred compensation. The annual salary is accompanied by an attractive benefits package including the municipal pension plan.

Our Liquid Waste Services Department is seeking a Maintenance Planner who will assist supervisory staff in planning, scheduling, monitoring, analyzing and tracking maintenance activities for the Iona Island waste treatment facility.

You are a safety-oriented planner with a background in trades or engineering, and work experience in industrial environments. You take a practical approach to your work and have a demonstrated willingness to seek out and try new solutions to old problems.

This role:
_(The duties described hereunder are intended to be representative of the position and are not to be considered all inclusive.)_

Scheduling:

Chairs daily and weekly work scheduling meetings with operations and maintenance personnel.
Coordinates the scheduling of all preventive and corrective maintenance work.
Reviews maintenance resource availability, continuously monitors the backlog and makes recommendations (e.g. shutdown, overtime, contractors) to manage backlog. Conducts weekly review of backlog and circulates copies to the operations and maintenance managers and superintendents.
Issues work orders as required and distributes to appropriate maintenance staff.

Job Planning:

In coordination with maintenance and operations supervisory staff, assesses job requirements, assigns job priorities according to established maintenance standards, estimates resource requirements (safety considerations, trade types, specialty services and quantity), determines required parts specific equipment and or tools required for the job.
Plans job sequences and tasks, provides detailed job procedures and drawings, initiates purchase requisitions, maintains through Purchasing Department standing purchase offer agreements and physically checks for inventory items and direct charge items prior to scheduling the job.
Assists with developing labour time standards for maintenance jobs and monitors maintenance jobs to ensure time standards are current.
In consultation with maintenance and operations staff and maintenance engineering, develops PM routine frequencies for all equipment and assets.
Assists in the preparation of the background information required to support warranty claims.

Budgeting, Reporting, and Long Term Planning:

Assists in developing reports and information required to support annual maintenance budget submittals.
Prepares monthly maintenance budget forecasts and assists with maintenance performance reporting.

Continuous Improvement:

Reviews completed work order packages for completeness and accuracy, and initiates or schedules any further or incomplete work identified. Follows up with maintenance supervisors to obtain requisite and or outstanding information. Enters or arranges for and checks the entry of information into the Computerized Maintenance Management System.
Reviews maintenance methods against PM routines and standard job procedure and recommends revisions and changes where appropriate. Ensures time standards and PM routines are current for all existing equipment and assets, regularly analyzes and trends key condition based technical information against predetermined standards and coordinates action for all anomalies.
Maintains and updates equipment files and ensures all corporate and record field files and associated cost centers are kept current. Coordinates with Project or Engineering staff to update equipment and facility drawings as required.
Coordinates the process for setting up new or revising existing equipment records and maintains the filing of completed work orders, equipment manuals, condition based monitoring results, PM routines, record drawings, and standard job procedures.

To be successful, you have:

Graduation from a Diploma program in Civil, Electrical, Instrumentation or Mechanical technology and a minimum of two (2) years related experience OR an Interprovincial Trade Ticket, training and work related experience supplemented by the successful completion of maintenance management and planning courses
Training and demonstrated ability to use computerized spreadsheets, databases and project planning and scheduling software effectively.
A combination of training and demonstrated experience in managed maintenance methods and practices.
Proven ability to plan and schedule multiple tasks in a dynamic environment and to quickly work with staff in assessing priorities. Demonstrated initiative and responsible attitude.
Ability to communicate effectively with contractors and staff in both technical and functional terms. Ability to obtain consensus within a group during planning while dealing with competing priorities u