Planner / Scheduler

Job summary

Review maintenance requests and backlogs, define work scopes, estimate labour and durations, identify required materials and services, and create executable work packages and schedules using IBM Maximo. Coordinate work readiness and scheduled activities with maintenance, operations, reliability, and supply chain teams, while monitoring schedule performance, supporting budget tracking and forecasting, and improving planning processes.

Job details

Planner / Scheduler — Contract Location: Logan Lake, British Columbia Work Arrangement: On-site Position Type: Contract Company Description Fitzpatrick & Company Consulting Inc. provides business and operational consulting services to clients across Canada. Our team brings expertise in planning and scheduling, reliability, asset management, project management, budget development, and business improvement. We work closely with clients to understand their challenges and develop practical solutions that strengthen day-to-day operations and support long-term objectives. Role Description We are seeking an experienced Planner / Scheduler for an on-site contract role in Logan Lake, BC. The successful candidate will support maintenance planning and scheduling, ensuring work is clearly defined, appropriately resourced, and ready for execution. The role requires hands-on experience with IBM Maximo to develop and maintain work orders, job plans, and planning information. Day-to-day responsibilities will include reviewing maintenance requests and backlogs, defining work scopes, estimating labour and task durations, identifying required parts and services, and developing work packages and schedules that reflect operational priorities and resource availability. The Planner / Scheduler will work closely with maintenance, operations, reliability, and supply chain teams to confirm work readiness, resolve planning constraints, and coordinate scheduled activities. Additional responsibilities include monitoring schedule performance, updating plans as priorities change, supporting budget tracking and forecasting, and improving the quality and consistency of maintenance planning processes. Qualifications Hands-on IBM Maximo experience is required, including work order management, job plan development, backlog review, and use of maintenance history to support planning. Strong maintenance planning and scheduling capabilities, including defining work scopes, estimating labour and durations, identifying materials, and coordinating resources. Ability to interpret technical documentation, equipment information, and maintenance requirements and translate them into clear, executable work packages. Proficiency in data analysis and reporting to monitor schedule performance, identify variances, and support operational decisions. Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to coordinate priorities across maintenance, operations, reliability, and supply chain teams. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple work orders, competing priorities, and changing timelines. Experience in mining or other heavy industrial environments, along with an understanding of safe work practices, is an asset. A relevant trade certification or post-secondary education in engineering, maintenance, operations management, or a related field is an asset.

What you’ll do

Review maintenance requests and backlogs, define work scopes, estimate labour and durations, identify required materials and services, and create executable work packages and schedules using IBM Maximo. Coordinate work readiness and scheduled activities with maintenance, operations, reliability, and supply chain teams, while monitoring schedule performance, supporting budget tracking and forecasting, and improving planning processes.

Requirements

Hands-on IBM Maximo experience is required, including work order management, job plan development, backlog review, and use of maintenance history. Candidates should have strong maintenance planning and scheduling, technical interpretation, data analysis, communication, organization, and attention-to-detail skills; mining or heavy industrial experience, safe work practices, and relevant trade certification or post-secondary education are assets.

Listed skills

• Data analysis · Preferred
• Reporting · Preferred
• Cross-Functional Collaboration · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• IBM Maximo
• Maintenance Planning
• Maintenance Scheduling
• Work Order Management
• Job Plan Development
• Backlog Review
• Work Scope Definition
• Labour Estimation
• Materials Planning
• Resource Coordination
• Work Package Development
• Schedule Performance Monitoring
• Data Analysis
• Reporting
• Budget Tracking
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Job areas

• Engineering
• Trades
• Management & Leadership
• Consulting
• Manufacturing