Maintenance Planner

About the role

SunOpta delivers customized supply chain solutions and innovation for top brands, retailers, and foodservice providers across a broad portfolio of beverages, broths, and better-for-you snacks. With over 50 years of expertise, SunOpta fuels customers' growth with high-quality, sustainability-forward solutions distributed through retail, club, foodservice, and e-commerce channels across North America.

Responsibilities

• Balance safety, quality, productivity, cost, and morale to achieve positive results in all areas of production
• Review incoming work request, estimate labor and time required
• Kit the materials/parts and schedule resource needs prior to scheduling work
• Assign preventative maintenance (PM) tasks to operators and maintenance technicians as needed
• Work with engineering and maintenance to identify improvement opportunities in preventative maintenance systems and equipment
• Maintain the CMMS operating systems, i.e., COGZ and TPMS
• Data input, analysis and reporting the reliability and downtime root cause and corrective measures
• Develop/maintain PM activities, track conformance to schedule and drive autonomous maintenance in the PM pillar for TPM
• Work with the stock room to establish and maintain inventory standards and reorder points
• Perform monthly cycle count inventories and reconcile against stock levels
• Communicates maintenance problems with production and operations to minimize downtime
• Responsible for establishing procedures for tracking all maintenance work orders
• Generate work orders and work schedules for all maintenance shifts and prioritize them
• Work with operations to understand production schedules and ensure PM scheduling coincides with production needs and that critical equipment is identified and prioritized properly
• Work with operations, maintenance, and engineering to ensure that work requests are properly understood and scheduled to meet production's needs
• Provide data for the development of annual budget for the department
• Ensure storage, kitting and work areas are clean and organized
• Ensure compliance with customer specifications, quality standards, FDA, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), safety, health, environmental and other regulations
• Participate in the daily scheduled operations briefing
• Perform all other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• 2+ years related experience in managing or implementing a preventative maintenance program
• Experience managing repair parts stock and inventory levels including cycle counts for inventory management
• Experience using CMMS and ERP systems
• Associates Degree in inventory management/accounting or related field
• Oracle experience
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, 5S, Six Sigma and/or TPM methodology
• Bilingual in English and Spanish

Skills

• High attention to detail
• Strong follow-up skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Solid working knowledge of MS Excel software
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally with various internal departments, stakeholders and supplier partners is key requirements
• Capable of effectively managing information and communicating both internally and externally