Maintenance manager Jobs in Markham, ON

Job Type:

Regular

We believe the best results come from collaboration, sharing perspectives, and working as a team

Agropur is looking for a Maintenance Planner to join is Don Mills team.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance activities to improve equipment reliability, maximize workforce productivity, and support safe, efficient plant operations.

The Maintenance Planner serves as the site owner of the Work Execution Management (WEM) process, driving proactive maintenance practices and ensuring maintenance work is properly identified, prioritized, planned, executed, and documented.

A workplace where collaboration is encouraged and valued:

• Recognition of years of service in calculating vacation time.
• Flexible group insurance plan, including telemedicine service.
• Employee assistance program.
• Opportunity to invest in you (Career Path, etc.).
• Pension plan including employer contributions.
• Salary range 004: $80,200 to $100,300 (Salary will be determined based on skills, education, training & experience related to the position.)

How you will contribute to collective success:

• Own and govern the site's Work Execution Management (WEM) process and standards.
• Drive plant-wide adoption of WEM processes across Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Utilities, and other departments.
• Promote proactive maintenance by ensuring equipment defects and improvement opportunities are captured through quality Work Requests.
• Maintain a healthy maintenance work pipeline by monitoring Work Request generation and addressing gaps in work identification.
• Coach and train hourly and salaried employees on WEM processes, CMMS usage, and Work Request creation.
• Review, prioritize, scope, and develop detailed maintenance job plans, including labor, materials, tools, permits, safety requirements, and contractor support.
• Create and maintain standardized job plans for recurring maintenance, preventive maintenance, and reliability improvement activities.
• Develop, coordinate, and manage weekly maintenance schedules to optimize resource utilization and maximize planned work execution.
• Lead maintenance downtime, shutdown, and turnaround planning activities, ensuring all work is fully prepared, resourced, and scheduled in advance.
• Coordinate shutdown execution and startup readiness plans to ensure safe, efficient, and successful return to operation following maintenance activities.
• Facilitate backlog review, prioritization, scheduling, and maintenance coordination meetings with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Manage contractor activities for assigned work scopes, including scope definition, scheduling, site coordination, work permits, contractor compliance, and performance tracking.
• Coordinate with Stores and Procurement to ensure materials, spare parts, specialized tools, and services are available before scheduled work begins.
• Maintain accurate asset, work order, maintenance history, and backlog data within the CMMS and ensure timely work order closure.
• Follow up with maintenance technicians during PM, CM, and corrective work execution to verify progress, resolve planning gaps, and support efficient execution.
• Review completed work with technicians and supervisors, capture execution feedback, identify lessons learned, and continuously improve job plans, task lists, durations, and maintenance procedures.
• Support preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Participate in failure investigations, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to eliminate recurring equipment issues.
• Ensure maintenance activities comply with safety, food safety, environmental, regulatory, and company standards, including permit and lockout/tagout requirements.
• Monitor and report key performance indicators including WEM compliance, schedule compliance, PM completion, backlog health, work order aging, planned versus reactive work, and equipment reliability.
• Replace the maintenance supervisor as needed and participate in after-hours maintenance on-call.

The type of team player who fits with the team:

• Diploma in maintenance, electromechanics, mechanical engineering or other relevant training.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years' experience in maintenance planning in a manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency in maintenance management software CMMS is required.
• Ability to analyze data and trends to optimize maintenance schedules and improve equipment reliability.

A role for those who know performance is built together.

People are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in working together, speaking honestly, taking ownership, and creating value in everything we deliver. Our culture is built on collaboration, accountability, and a shared commitment to growing stronger together. Joining the team means being part of an environment where people support each other and take pride in making a real impact.

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Agropur welcomes people from all backgrounds and origins. We are proud to be an employer with a diverse community and are committed to providing a respectful and inclusive experience for all employees and applicants. We will work with candidates who request accommodation. Please note that an adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec. Agropur uses artificial intelligence technology to assist our recruiters in screening, assessing, or selecting applicants for this position.

In this text, the use of the masculine gender to designate persons is intended only to lighten the text.