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Mechanical Maintenance Planner at Irving Oil · City of…
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Job Description
As a Mechanical Maintenance Planner you will establish, maintain, and support continuous improvement of the maintenance planning process. Your goal will be to execute planning activities, provide direction and alignment to resource plans, and mitigate risks to ensure maintenance timelines are met. Your success will be a direct result of your willingness to learn, your ability to work with a team and individually, your desire to grow your career and helping others do the same, by being good-natured and having a positive attitude, and having the ability to give and receive feedback.
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity with Irving Oil, please apply by August 14, 2026.
What We offer:
- Work Environment – Work and grow within Canada’s largest Refinery, with strong safety culture, access to a fitness facility, an onsite medical team, and a café
- Competitive Compensation – Including an annual bonus plan, and pension plan
- Flexible Benefits Plan – In effect from day one and offers three levels of coverage to select from to meet your unique, personal needs
- Wellness Support – With an annual wellness allowance, paid personal care days and a 24/7 Employee & Family Assistance Program
- Opportunity to give back to some amazing causes in our community – Choose when and where to make an impact with a paid volunteer day, company volunteer opportunities, and a donation matching program
Your Responsibilities:
- Develop detailed work packages, using package development software, in cooperation with engineering and materials coordinator
- Work with Planners, Field Coordinators or Maintenance Field Performance Specialists to enter resource loaded tasks into our scheduling tool and optimize logic and resources through a resource leveling and critical path method analysis
- Monitor and manage contract services to assist the execution team lead and procurement ensuring the services are being executed as expected
- Develop short-term and assist in the development of long-term detailed work plans, schedules and packages for execution by our contractors
- Mentor junior Planners to aid in their development and further their understanding as a scheduler and/or specialty planner
- Collect and update information related to the construction and maintenance schedule
- Develop schedules, logic, optimizes and exports data from scheduling tool to MS Excel for the purposes of additional analysis with project controls
- Collaborate with a Lead Planner to develop other analytics as required by management or project controls team
- Perform field audits as required to ensure field conditions are aligned to engineering drawings
- Develop resource histogram forecasts on a weekly basis
Your Skills:
- Proven ability to maintain good working relationships with stakeholders
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience dealing with multiple priorities with a proven ability to meet hard deadlines
- Strong attention to detail
- Good collaboration skills and positive attitude; able to shift priorities quickly
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Strong organization and time management skills
- Ability to work flexible hours when required
Your Experience:
- 5+ years’ experience with 3+ years working in an Industrial Environment
- Post-secondary education or equivalent with practical experience
- Knowledge and understanding of technical drawings and specifications
- Experience as any building trades journeyman, refinery operations or supervision in an industrial environment
- Education: Red Seal Journeyperson is an asset
- Experience planning and scheduling in Primavera P6 is an asset
- Experience with MS Project, Navisworks and MS Visio is an asset
- Experience with Adobe Pro is an asset
- Proficiency with all MS Office applications
Irving Oil is committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive work environment. We thrive on the good energy that’s created when our people from different backgrounds, identities, cultures and experiences share their unique perspectives. Diversity is key to our success and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.
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