Maintenance Planner, Mining

Position Overview

Position:
Maintenance Planner, Mining (Onsite)

Location:

Fort McMurray, AB | Continuous Shift 7x7 | Full-Time, Permanent

Join a team where your expertise directly drives performance, reliability, and operational success. As a Maintenance Planner, Mining, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the maintenance strategy for critical mining equipment, ensuring our operation runs safely, efficiently, and with maximum uptime. This is an opportunity to take ownership of planning excellence, collaborate closely with Maintenance, Production, and external partners, and influence decisions that keep our fleet performing at its best.

In this role, you will develop and oversee the tactical maintenance plan for all application equipment, always balancing cost effectiveness with operational reliability. You will support the Manager by assessing equipment performance, identifying risks, and recommending proactive solutions that strengthen our ability to deliver exceptional service to our customers. If you take pride in precision planning, problem solving, and making a measurable impact, this role offers a meaningful and rewarding challenge.

• Competitive salary with annual performance bonus, regional wage allowance and housing allowance (role requires you to reside in Fort McMurray)
• Comprehensive benefits package starting on day one
• Matching pension and employee share purchase plans
• Generous paid vacation that increases with years of service
• Recognition and rewards for top talent and high performance

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• Develop the equipment maintenance strategy and long‑range maintenance plan with clear timelines, roles, and responsibilities between Maintenance and Production.
• Develop maintenance schedules for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual inspections and planned maintenance activities.
• Plan, prepare, and validate clarity of approved work orders to ensure efficient scheduling, sequencing, and execution using the CMMS.
• Define procedures, drawings, equipment, and materials required to perform planned work.
• Develop, revise, and review maintenance work procedures to ensure compliance with codes, standards, and vendor requirements.
• Maintain and update the maintenance information library and Reliability‑Centered Maintenance scheduling requirements.

• Coordinate with the Maintenance Supervisor to execute the maintenance plan, including scheduling internal labour, contractors, and material resources.
• Conduct in‑plant and field walkdowns to validate maintenance needs, improve work order quality, and perform job package reviews.
• Facilitate work order preparation, including permits for hot work, confined space, lockout, fire suppression, and other required controls.
• Perform root cause analysis and risk assessments as required.
• Provide project management for contractors performing inspections, PMs, repairs, and annual programs (e.g., cranes, fire suppression, winterizations).
• Report on major repair requirements and safety incidents.
• Use creative problem‑solving to address backlogs, changing priorities, and equipment downtime.

• Evaluate job feedback to improve future work planning, execution, and reliability practices.
• Recommend improved maintenance procedures and strategies to reduce costs and increase equipment availability.
• Manage and control maintenance work order backlogs to ensure priority work is addressed.
• Ensure compliance with internal standards, regulatory requirements, and maintenance best practices (e.g., OHS, WHMIS, emissions, vendor standards).
• Monitor and report operability impairment and impact statements.
• Be conversant with ADT Security and Simplex Fire Alarm system protocols as they relate to maintenance.

• Interface collaboratively with Production and other internal partners to identify and resolve maintenance issues.
• Participate in prioritization/scheduling meetings, trade coordination, and…