Maintenance Planner

Job summary

Responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities to maximize equipment reliability and uptime at a manufacturing facility. This includes developing detailed job plans, managing spare parts, and maintaining accurate records within the CMMS.

Job details

Welcome to Cascades! Bring your expertise to a people-first, dynamic environment where your ideas come to life and excellence shapes everything we do. Join Cascades as a Maintenance Planner in St-Marys, and help build a more sustainable future. As a Maintenance Planner, you will play a critical role in improving equipment reliability and supporting the performance of our St. Marys corrugated manufacturing facility. Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to production. What’s In It For You Taking care of our people is in our nature - so you’ll enjoy: Competitive Annual Salary between $61,000-$92,000 + Profit Sharing Career pathways that support your goals in a values driven environment where your work directly supports customer success. Excellent Benefits Package: Wellness Plan Options, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off Financial Benefits: Retirement Savings Plan, Profit Sharing, Stock Purchase Plan Wellness Benefits: Employee Assistance Plan, Lifestyle Flex Benefit Allowance A collaborative, respectful, and people-centered workplace Your Role As Maintenance Planner, you’ll take on real challenges that bring out your full potential. Your Scope Includes Develop detailed maintenance job plans, including labor requirements, parts, materials, tools, permits, and safety considerations. Build and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance schedules to maximize equipment uptime and reliability. Prioritize and schedule maintenance work in collaboration with Operations and Maintenance leadership. Coordinate planned shutdowns, equipment overhauls, and major maintenance projects. Ensure spare parts and materials are identified, sourced, and available before scheduled work begins. Maintain accurate maintenance records, equipment histories, and work orders within the CMMS. Monitor maintenance KPIs and identify opportunities to improve planning effectiveness and asset reliability. Support root cause analysis activities and continuous improvement initiatives. Promote a safety-first culture by ensuring maintenance activities comply with company safety standards and regulatory requirements. What You Bring You're a natural fit for Maintenance Planner if you have: Technical Diploma, Trades Certification or Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Technology or Business Administration preferred. A combination of education and experience will be considered. Experience in maintenance planning, maintenance coordination, reliability, or industrial maintenance within a manufacturing environment. Strong understanding of preventive and predictive maintenance practices. Experience working with a CMMS such as SAP, Maximo, MP2, or similar systems. Knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems commonly found in manufacturing operations. Ability to read technical drawings, manuals, and equipment documentation. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel. If you bring the same care to who you are as to what you do, we’d love to meet you! Apply now and join our team as Maintenance Planner in St-Marys. Cascades values diversity and inclusion and considers all applications equitably.

What you’ll do

Responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities to maximize equipment reliability and uptime at a manufacturing facility. This includes developing detailed job plans, managing spare parts, and maintaining accurate records within the CMMS.

Requirements

Requires a technical diploma, trades certification, or a bachelor's degree in a related field, combined with experience in industrial maintenance planning. Proficiency in CMMS software and a strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems are essential.

Benefits

• Profit Sharing • Wellness Plan Options • Life Insurance • Paid Time Off • Retirement Savings Plan • Stock Purchase Plan • Employee Assistance Plan • Lifestyle Flex Benefit Allowance

Listed skills

• Preventive Maintenance · Preferred
• Safety Compliance · Preferred
• Microsoft Excel · Preferred
• Root Cause Analysis · Preferred
• scheduling · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Maintenance Planning
• Scheduling
• CMMS
• Preventive Maintenance
• Predictive Maintenance
• Root Cause Analysis
• Asset Reliability
• Technical Drawing Interpretation
• Microsoft Excel
• Industrial Maintenance
• Equipment Overhauls
• Safety Compliance

Job areas

• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Trades
• Management & Leadership