Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner – Port Colborne, Ontario

Location: 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 Role

The 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 performance

What 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

Benefits And Perks

Enriching the quality of life for the world begins by taking care of our colleagues. In addition to competitive pay, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package to support all aspects of your well-being, including:

• Physical wellness – medical/Rx, dental, vision, life and AD&D, critical illness and travel insurance Wellness reimbursement , and Child Physical Activity Reimbursement.
• Financial wellness – Money Purchase Pension Plan (MPP), Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), short and long term disability, legal assistance, identity theft protection.
• Mental and social wellness – Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Additional Benefits Include

• Paid vacation time.
• Education assistance.
• Company-sponsored training and development resources, such as LinkedIn Learning, language learning and mentoring programs.

#IncludingYou

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are cornerstones of ADM’s efforts to continue innovating, driving growth, and delivering outstanding performance. We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and create welcoming, truly inclusive work environments — environments that enable every ADM colleague to feel comfortable on the job, make meaningful contributions to our success, and grow their career. We respect and value the unique backgrounds and experiences that each person can bring to ADM because we know that diversity of perspectives makes us better, together.

We welcome everyone to apply. We are committed to ensuring all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, language, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law

About ADM

At ADM, we unlock the power of nature to provide access to nutrition worldwide. With industry-advancing innovations, a complete portfolio of ingredients and solutions to meet any taste, and a commitment to sustainability, we give customers an edge in solving the nutritional challenges of today and tomorrow. We’re a global leader in human and animal nutrition and the world’s premier agricultural origination and processing company. Our breadth, depth, insights, facilities and logistical expertise give us unparalleled capabilities to meet needs for food, beverages, health and wellness, and more. From the seed of the idea to the outcome of the solution, we enrich the quality of life the world over. Learn more at

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