Maintenance Planner


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Job Title: Maintenance Planner
Location: Port Colborne, International/Other

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Maintenance/Repair
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

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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