Maintenance Planner - Port Colborne, OntarioLocation: Port Colborne Ontario
Position Type: Salary - Full -Exempt
Shift: Day shift - 6am to 3pm - Monday to Friday
Compensation: Competitive hourly rate with comprehensive benefits, including health, vision, life.About the RoleThe Maintenance Planner will be responsible for daily oversight as well as long-term vision of maintenance strategies associated within the whole complex. This is a unionized facility of which the Maintenance Planner indirectly supervises approximately 14 hourly colleagues and is directly responsible to the to the Maintenance Superintendent.
The successful candidate will need to exhibit a mastery of the following responsibilities: safety, quality assurance, food safety/environmental compliance, government legislations & laws, cost management, capital disciplines and colleague development.The Maintenance Planner will work with department supervisors to establish and/or maintain appropriate preventative maintenance for efficient operation of the plant. Will be expected to maintain facility, structure, utility and related infrastructure and systems. Take a hands-on active role in managing maintenance department and employee performanceWhat You'll Do
Serve as a key member of Site Leadership team
Play active role and coach others in programs including human safety, food safety, quality, environmental standards, and Performance Excellence (CI)
Ensure department is supporting the goals of the Plant and other departments
Provide exceptional leadership and guidance:
Ensure all employees, visitors, vendors, contractors understand and comply with safety policies and procedures
Support production departments in safety and quality, including audit compliance
Align, deploy, execute the ADM Milling Maintenance and Reliability vision/strategy
Maintain operational equipment to function as designed or expected
Manage and implement preventative maintenance and reliability activities
Lead and support root-cause analysis/5-Why processes within the maintenance team regarding failures, EDT and execute plan to correct
Develop, review, analyze maintenance/reliability metrics and performance
Management On-Call
Assist operations leadership in training personnel on proper operations, cleaning, lubrication, troubleshooting, and adjustments to production equipment
Manage an effective storeroom and spare parts inventory to ensure that needed parts are available
Coordinate maintenance program to schedule work with/around production schedule
Maintain an effective equipment and work history, and preventative maintenance program using Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
Ensure that all maintenance work is documented
Manage ongoing maintenance and reliability-related projects
Asset reliability and defect elimination
People management and development including retention, recruiting, and team engagement
Identify training opportunities and needs
Facilitate training sessions for maintenance and site personnel, focusing on precision skills training and development, safety practices and work standards
Ensure healthy planning and scheduling process is functioning for the facility
Lead Plant to maintain personnel and process safety:
Maintain an environment in which personal safety is top priority
Ensure team works safely and department maintains compliance with all health and safety regulations
Ensure operation of the site is carried out with all permits, laws, regulations, and best practices
Align department goals with plant goals
Communicate direction and priorities to department, leveraging a structured management system
Ensure plant's adherence to established product, environmental, safety, housekeeping and quality guidelines
Demonstrate ADM Core Values in decision-making and actions
Collaborate with other work groups to develop a strategic vision for the department, put into action through the department deployment plan
Support Quality and Food Safety Management Systems
Model the Performance Excellence Journey:
Lead and coach team to leverage continuous improvement tools to achieve department and plant KPI's
Ensure deviations from KPIs and incidents are driven to Root Cause elimination by team
Demonstrate commitment to improving safety, processes, and efficiency of the plant by delivering department deployment plan in 'what' (metrics) and 'how' (means)
Work in collaboration with Centers of Excellence to improve the operations technology and reliability
Effective Communicator:
Demonstrate strong communication skills, written and spoken
Interpret and ensure consistent application of organizational policies and procedures
Additional roles and responsibilities to continually develop self and other teams
What You Bring
Demonstrated self-starter, able to self-monitor with minimal oversight
Results-driven to achieve goals established by leadership
Demonstrated leadership, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
Excellent organization and multi-tasking skills
Computer skills, capability with Microsoft Products
Can work in all types of climates including extreme hot/cold temperatures, noisy, dusty environments, all of which require Personal Protective Equipment
Able to climb stairs, access ladders, catwalks, elevated working platforms
Some lifting, sitting, standing for long periods, working at heights, bending, kneeling, respirator-qualified
Willing to work rotating shifts, weekends, and holidays
Education and Experience
Prior experience leading/supervising people
Have one of the following trade certificate: 433A - Millwright or 309A - Electrical
Bachelor's degree in Engineering (or equivalent experience) and 7 years of supervisory experience preferred
Experience in extraction, grain handling at scale, oilseed processing, or manufacturing and oil refining would be beneficial, but not required
Other Requirements
Must pass pre-employment medical and reference checks
Regular, reliable attendance and willingness to work overtime as needed
Commitment to ADM's Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) standards
Must be legally eligible to work in Canada
Relocation assistance is not available
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Job Post Date: 04/09/26
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