Maintenance Planner

TSG STAFFING SERVICES is currently recruiting for a Maintenance Planner position located in the Red Deer area, working in a plant/industrial operations environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced maintenance professional who enjoys coordinating complex maintenance activities and driving efficient execution. The Maintenance Planner will serve as the primary planning resource for maintenance work across Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls, and Metals disciplines, ensuring work is safely planned, properly resourced, and ready for successful execution.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Develop detailed maintenance work packages within SAP for execution across multiple maintenance disciplines.
• Define job scope, work steps, labour requirements, materials, tools, equipment, contractor requirements, and safety considerations.
• Conduct field walkdowns to validate maintenance requirements and planning assumptions.
• Build logical work sequences that support safe, efficient, and cost-effective execution.
• Ensure all required drawings, procedures, permits, specifications, and technical documentation are included in work packages.
• Develop and maintain standardized job plans and task lists for recurring maintenance activities.
• Support outages and major maintenance events through detailed planning and coordination.
• Serve as a site subject matter expert for SAP Plant Maintenance processes.
• Create and maintain notifications, work orders, maintenance plans, task lists, bills of materials, and asset history within SAP.
• Maintain high-quality planning data to support maintenance reliability, safety, and performance objectives.
• Coordinate purchase requisitions and service requirements to ensure materials and services are available when required.
• Collaborate with maintenance and operations personnel to optimize weekly maintenance schedules and outage execution.
• Utilize maintenance and reliability metrics to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Provide planning leadership across Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls, and Metals maintenance activities.
• Facilitate work package reviews, pre-job meetings, and planning alignment sessions.
• Build strong working relationships with Operations, Engineering, Inspection, Procurement, contractors, and maintenance trades personnel.

Must have:

• Experience planning maintenance activities in an industrial, manufacturing, energy, petrochemical, mining, or process plant environment.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning principles, work management processes, and execution readiness requirements.
• Demonstrated experience using SAP Plant Maintenance for maintenance planning and work order management.
• Ability to develop detailed maintenance work packages including labour, materials, tools, equipment, contractor requirements, and safety controls.
• Experience working collaboratively with multiple maintenance disciplines, operations teams, and support groups.
• Strong organizational, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to lead planning discussions and influence stakeholders to achieve effective maintenance outcomes.
• Commitment to safety, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Nice to have:

• Experience supporting plant turnarounds, outages, shutdowns, or major maintenance events.
• Experience developing standardized maintenance job plans and task lists.
• Knowledge of maintenance and reliability metrics and performance improvement initiatives.
• Experience supporting Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls, and Metals maintenance disciplines.
• Additional experience working with procurement, inspection, engineering, and contractor management processes.
• Previous experience serving as an SAP PM subject matter expert.

Don’t check every single box? If you have strong SAP experience, supported major maintenance events with planning, and believe your background is a good match for the role, we still encourage you to apply.

Why Work With TSG?

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Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit their resume through the form BELOW.