Maintenance Planner (Red Seal Millwright)
Kruger View all jobs
- New Westminster, BC
- $52.69 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
We are leaders in our industry, leaders in our communities, and leaders in sustainability. Our headquarters is in Mississauga, ON, and we proudly have nearly 3,000 employees across North America, including 10 manufacturing plants in Quebec, British Columbia, Ontario, and Tennessee.
Kruger Products is investing in our manufacturing facilities with the latest technology. As an industry leader in this space, we are pushing innovation through Operational Excellence and the integration of digital & automation solutions. We also continue to invest in ways to further our commitment to a culture of health and safety - for everyone, by everyone, and in everything we do.We are seeking a Red Seal–certified Industrial Millwright to join our maintenance team who is focused on the role of Maintenance Planner. This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and optimizing preventative and corrective maintenance activities while leveraging hands-on millwright expertise to improve equipment reliability, safety, and uptime. The successful candidate will act as a key link between maintenance execution, operations, and leadership—ensuring work is properly scoped, planned, scheduled, and ready before executionWhat You Can Expect…
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
- Develop detailed job plans for corrective, preventative, and shutdown maintenance activities
- Accurately scope work including labor, tools, materials, parts, and safety requirements
- Assist the Reliability Engineer to build and maintain preventative maintenance (PM) strategies and job plans within the CMMS (SAP)
- Help to coordinate maintenance schedules between maintenance and operations to minimize downtime
- Review and help prioritize work requests based on safety, production impact, and asset criticality
- Analyze maintenance history and CMMS data to improve planning accuracy.
- Apply Red Seal millwright expertise to ensure job plans are practical, safe, and executable
- Provide technical guidance on rotating equipment, conveyors, hydraulics, pneumatics, and gearboxes
- Support troubleshooting and failure analysis to improve long-term equipment reliability
- Validate job plans through field walkdowns and collaboration with tradespeople
- Experience with rigging and overhauling heavy industrial equipment is considered an asset
- Reliability & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to shift reactive work to planned and preventative maintenance
- Support reliability initiatives including PM optimization and job plan standardization
- Participate in shutdown and outage planning, execution, and post-job reviews
- Work closely with trades, supervisors, engineers, and operations personnel
- Ensure materials and spare parts are kitted and available prior to scheduled work
- Communicate plan readiness, constraints, and schedule impacts clearly
- Promote safety, quality workmanship, and maintenance best practices
- Red Seal Journeyman Millwright (Industrial Mechanic)
- Experience in a Maintenance Planner or Scheduler role
- 3-5 years of industrial maintenance experience
- Strong understanding of mechanical systems and industrial equipment
- Working knowledge of CMMS systems (SAP preferred)
- Strong organizational, communication, and documentation skills
- Solid understanding of lockout/tagout and safe work practices
- Reliability or asset management training (RCM, PdM, RCA)
- Experience in manufacturing, pulp & paper, mining, or heavy industrial environments
- Computer skills including Excel and reporting tools
- Base payrate of $52.69/Hour + $3.00 positional premium for a planner
- Safety boot allowance
- Extended Health Benefits (after first 40 days)