Maintenance Scheduler/Planner

Employee Type : Full time

Full time

Location : ON Georgetown

ON Georgetown

Job Type :

Production Maintenance

Job Posting Title :

Maintenance Scheduler / Planner

About Us :

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE : THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada.

At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities and families.

We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future .

What You Gain :

• Competitive compensation and benefits program
• Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs
• Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities
• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people
• Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth
• Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs

Job Description : About the Role :

About the Role :

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, the Maintenance Scheduler / Planner plays a key role in managing Work Management, Asset Lifecycle Management, and Asset Reliability activities at the plant.

The Maintenance Scheduler / Planner is responsible for developing comprehensive maintenance plans as well as managing, optimizing, coordinating, and scheduling required resources to execute the plans with minimal disruption to production.

This position is responsible for improving work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through balancing the availability of internal labour, external contractors, parts & material, and equipment.

This role has a high degree of visibility, where focus and attention are on avoiding unnecessary production delays while optimizing trades wrench-time is key for success.

This role requires frequent interactions, negotiation, and direct engagement with Maintenance Managers, Plant Managers / Site Leads, Operations, Production and management in cross-functional groups, such as food and health safety, as well as external contractors and OEMs to advance the relationship and needs of all departments regarding planning and avoid unnecessary downtime.

Develop comprehensive, and thorough maintenance job plans for routine or repetitive preventive, condition based, and predictive maintenance activities that facilitate the safe and effective execution of work

Create a scheduling horizon for short, mid and long-term activities including annual overhauls and new equipment installations;

Develop extended maintenance schedules that facilitate the shutdown plan.

Review, risk assess, and rout non-emergency work orders for approval at the correct organizational level against defined acceptance criteria based on the business risk

Determine and recommend the scope and maintenance strategy (repair / overhaul / replace) of key maintenance work; document work plan, and manage required resources to full execution of the of preventive or corrective work

Manage assets history, technical manuals, OEM support contracts and other technical files for inclusion in job plans to anticipate and avoid delays

Plan and schedule work using Visual Scheduling tool, PowerBI, and SAP using in depth analytics and advanced techniques.

Visit the floor with the goal of increasing team productivity by removing all obstacles to executing the work safely, correctly and with minimum downtime and effort.

Adopt the concept of eyes on the job and eyes on the parts

Optimize maintenance labour availability vs. workload to minimize production disruptions

Prioritize maintenance work using criticality analysis; schedule work through proactive communications with Maintenance & Production to ensure the highest value and / or most critical work is being scheduled and completed in a timely manner

Lead maintenance planning / scheduling meetings where maintenance interventions are synchronized with Production

Develop schedule loading with the understanding of resource availability, operational requirements and a knowledge of time, cost and quality estimating

Understand the risks and timing variances that may occur and adjust as necessary to ensure schedule and cost compliance, this includes early start and late finish dates as well as asset criticality

Review and regularly update all maintenance backlogs

Provide technical assistance as required for maintenance personnel in executing the work

Strongly collaborate with the stores and the MRO staff to ensure the availability of parts / materials to execute work

Monitor parts / materials from point of order until staging

Important Details : This is a full time permanent position on day shift. May require coverage for afternoon and night shifts.

About You :

You’ll fit right in if you have :

Must have a degree in Engineering.

Journeyperson’s ticket is a significant asset

Highly skilled with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems is a must-have skill (CMMS); SAP is preferred.

Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, work in a past paced environment, Excellent time management, planning, and prioritization skills.

Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvements and assist with implementing them.

Computer skills and knowledge of SAP Plant Maintenance and MS Office.