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Maintenance Planner

Location: Sunrise Oil Sands

Type: Contract

Schedule: 8 days on/6 days off (12 hr shifts)

Flights and Accommodation provided out of Calgary or Edmonton

Introduction:

Brunel is currently seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Maintenance Planner to join our clients team. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning and scheduling maintenance activities to ensure the reliability and efficiency of our operations. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning and coordinating all tasks related to maintenance work orders to support efficient execution by maintenance teams. Works with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and Project groups to ensure alignment, readiness, and effective scheduling of maintenance activities. Ensures all planning activities meet company standards, site procedures, and operational priorities

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning all maintenance activities associated with assigned trade-based work
• Receives and reviews work requests, prioritizes tasks, and selects work for execution based on priority and required dates
• Develops detailed work plans including materials, tools, labour requirements, external services, and estimated costs
• Prepares complete work packages with task sequencing and required documentation
• Confirms availability of materials, tools, and services prior to scheduled execution
• Supports preventive maintenance programs and job plan reviews
• Coordinates maintenance activities with cross-functional stakeholders
• Ensures sufficient planned work to support short-term scheduling
• Supports planning for shutdown, turnaround, and outage events, including major maintenance scopes
• Participates in planning-related meetings within the maintenance management framework
• Provides planning support for corrective actions and project-related maintenance work
• Maintains and improves future task lists to enhance planning effectiveness
• Escalates issues requiring higher-level input or resolution

Accountabilities

• Accountable for adherence to the work order lifecycle process
• Accountable for achieving planning-related KPIs, including planning accuracy, backlog management, and work order completion readiness
• Accountable for supporting maintenance budget adherence through accurate planning and cost estimation
• Accountable for compliance with site processes, procedures, and standard practices
• Accountable for coordinating planning activities across maintenance, operations, and engineering groups

Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• Journeyman Trade Certification

• Minimum 10 years of industrial experience at the journeyman level

• Strong troubleshooting, organizational, and planning skills

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a cross-functional environment

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated commitment to high safety standards

• Extensive experience using a CMMS for maintenance planning (SAP and/or Prometheus preferred)

Assets:

• Experience supporting turnaround, shutdown, and outage planning

• Familiarity with ABSA regulatory requirements

• Experience acting as an operations liaison on projects

Greenfield and Brownfield projects, New Construction, and Management of Change (MOC)

Skills & Competencies:

• Maintenance planning and scheduling expertise

• Strong problem-solving and analytical capability

• Effective coordination and stakeholder communication

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple work streams

• Attention to detail in work package development

• Meeting facilitation and collaborative engagement

• Continuous improvement mindset

Safety & Compliance:

• Required to follow company safety policies, procedures, and commitments

• Responsible for identifying hazards, escalating unsafe conditions, and supporting a safe work environment

• Required to comply with lock-out/tag-out and other critical safe work procedures

• Supports environmental performance by considering environmental impacts in planning activities

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Brunel has a reputation for working with some of the best in the business. That’s what we continually strive for. Brunel provides the global recruitment and workforce services you need to lead your industry. With 50 years of market experience in Renewable Energy, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Mining and Infrastructure, we help you finish major projects safely, compliantly, on-time, within budget and at the highest quality, so you can keep growing – anywhere in the world.