Maintenance Planner

Requisition Number: Req-257043

Position Title:

External Description: Title: Maintenance Planner

               

Location: Taber, AB

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

As the Maintenance Planner, you'll work under the direction of a Maintenance Supervisor, Reliability Specialist, and Maintenance Manager to plan maintenance and repair work for the maintenance department. Maintenance duties are essential in assisting the business in achieving its production goals.

Job Description

About The Role

• Location: Taber, Alberta
• Full-time, Hourly
• Schedule: 8-hour shift schedule rotation Monday to Friday (07:00-15:00). Must be available to work weekends and statutory holidays on occasion.
• Reports to: Maintenance Team Leader
• Base Wage: CAD $33.56/hour (with opportunity for advancement)

As the Maintenance Planner, you'll...

• Always maintain/promote safe work practices. 
• Have a complete knowledge and understanding of the plant safety rules including lock-out and tag-out procedures.
• Understand and follow all plant Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
• Maintain a clean work area.
• Work closely with maintenance team leaders to coordinate and schedule the preventative maintenance program and maintain the maintenance work order system.
• Determine the labor and material requirements for work requests and initiate steps necessary to procure needed material.
• Review completed work orders for proper documentation and feedback on changes, revisions, or suggestions and control work orders to document regulated checking of equipment before closure.
• Develop a list of parts needed to support the long-range plans for scheduled plant shutdowns.
• Be responsible for corrective maintenance backlogs and standard job plans.
• Monitor “Kittingâ€� process and inventory to ensure that jobs are scheduled, executed, and closed out within a timely manner.
• Develop/enhance current job plans to be in a Preventative Maintenance Optimization (PMO) format, with actionable and accountable tasks.
• Work closely with the Line Structure Team and Team Leader Maintenance to properly prioritize planned work that attacks and eliminates deficiencies in a manner that safely improves and sustains equipment reliability to maximize plant efficiencies and production.
• Assist in the creation of work orders, preventive and corrective, for regular downtime, capital downtime, One Shots, and Capital Projects.
• Develop reports that will be used by the maintenance team leaders to ensure resources are properly utilized.
• Serve as the key communicator for your area of responsibility.
• Ensure workforce effectiveness by eliminating the potential for conflicts, and delays and by setting expectations for safety, quality, and craftsmanship.
• Coach constructively & provide positive and motivating feedback to your team members.
• Communicate with mechanics, operators, sanitation leaders and supervisors to keep abreast of downtime maintenance activities & to keep abreast of production activities.
• Maintain sanitation work orders by notifying supervisors and sanitation leaders when repair work in the production area is completed and ensure proper sanitation work orders are generated.
• Ensure proper paperwork is being completed.

In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, at Lamb Weston, we will support you in identifying where your interests and development opportunities lie and we'll help empower you to successfully grow in your role.

About You

You’ll thrive as a Maintenance Planner if you:

• Ground your work in best practices for safety & product quality
• Possess knowledge and experience with food safety programs & standards
• Enjoy partnering with team members across an organization to collaborate together toward a common goal
• Possess excellent, inclusive communication skills across diverse types of people and needs
• You maintain a people-centric and "roll up your sleevesâ€� and solutions-oriented mindset and work style
• Have experience working in the manufacturing industry, supporting both customer and business-focused needs
• Take a positive and humble approach to building relationships with your team members
• Have a passion for learning, and are determined to give every task your best effort

Why Lamb Weston is for You
Lamb Weston has revolutionized how fries are made and how they bring the world together. The Taber, Alberta facility hosts an award-winning, top-performing team that has been in the community for over 25 years. Our culture and unique perks empower you with:

• A caring culture. We offer programs for financial hardship relief, incentives for volunteerism, and annual scholarships for children of employees.
• A healthier you. Access to local gym, pool, and golf facilities. Access to extensive life balance solutions, and wellness resources. We also provide excellent health care benefits.
• Community and fun. We are potluck meal enthusiasts, avid ‘French Fry Day’ consumers, holiday dinner partygoers, and Safety Week celebrators.
• Enviable compensation benefits. We offer annual & quarterly bonus programs, evening shift differential pay, and weekend shift differential pay.
• Freedom to grow. We offer opportunities to cross-train in other job areas, an avenue for professional development through a broad micro-learning platform, and a plethora of in-house training programs to build your skills and leadership capabilities.

Our Core Behaviors

• A healthy obsession with safety. We deeply understand the products we make and are committed to delivering high-quality goods for our customers in a safe working environment. Regardless of the circumstances or pressures we face, we do right by our people, our communities, and our customers, and act with integrity.
• Putting our heads together. Great teamwork happens when we encourage perspectives from all corners of our community. We see the bigger picture to become stronger and smarter together.
• Act with confidence. We make smart, informed decisions as we work towards our goals. Each of us is encouraged and empowered to think like a leader, be a self-starter, and ask for help when it’s needed.
• Raise the bar. We constantly challenge ourselves and each other to seek out new ideas and better ways of doing things to define the leading edge of what’s possible in our industry. We learn from our mistakes, celebrate our successes, and drive for results.
• Be you, with us. In an atmosphere of inclusion, we embrace each other’s differences. We make it safe to be ourselves and speak our minds. Through thick and thin, each of us is committed to one another’s well-being and personal growth.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Experience working with a Computer Maintenance Management System (CCMS). 
• Maintenance planner experience. 
• PC skills and basic knowledge of database management.
• 1-3 years of experience as a maintenance planner is preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. 
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. 
• Ability to speak effectively before groups, management, supervisor and fellow co-workers in organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra, geometry and mathematics required to calculate interest, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CLASSIFICATIONS, CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Must obtain and maintain company-provided certification as a lift truck operator.
• Must obtain and maintain company-provided certification as a man lift operator.
• Must obtain and maintain company-provided certification for confined space.
• Must obtain and maintain First Aid Certificate. (company provided)
• Must obtain and maintain Fleet Safe certification. (company provided)
• Must obtain and maintain WHMIS Certification. (company provided)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; and taste or smell.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, colour vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.  The employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock.  The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat; and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Matching RRSP program

• Competitive compensation package including off-shift premiums and quarterly performance bonuses

• Opportunities for growth and advancement

• Comprehensive on-the-job training & development

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge-type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

               

Job Requisition ID: Req-257043

               

Time Type: Full time

               

Anticipated Close Date: 03/29/2025

               

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law

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Company Profile:

Lamb Weston is a leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world.

For more than 60 years, Lamb Weston has led the industry in innovation, introducing inventive products that simplify back-of-house management for our customer and make things more delicious for their customers.

It’s all about seeing the possibilities in potatoes and never, ever settling.

Learn more about us at lambweston.com.

Location_formattedLocationLong: Alberta, CA