Maintenance Planner - - Gitga'at Waiward

Maintenance Planner - Gitga'at Waiward

Pay: Competitive

Location: Kitimat/British Columbia

Employment Type: Other

Job Description

• Req#: 1917

Overview

Location: LNGC Site, BC

Position: Regular / Full-Time

Positives Available: 1

Reporting to: Contracts Administrator & Senior Project Manager

Waiward is a respected construction and maintenance service provider that operates one of Canada’s largest fabrication shops based out of Edmonton, Alberta. Our mission is To Be Your Trusted Partner which ensures we act with integrity in all that we do. Through planned growth and development, we have kept our commitment to provide our customers with an unsurpassed level of service. Waiward’s historical and future success is grounded in our collective commitment to our core values.

At Waiward our priority is our personal commitment to and belief in caring for each other, creating an incident-free culture focused on planning and acting to reduce health, safety, environmental, and quality stressors, participation and accountability, leadership and building competency and acknowledging good work.

Job Purpose:

The Maintenance Planner is primarily responsible for reviewing construction documents and technical specifications, in the preparation of detailed work plans that consider all aspects including cost estimating, scheduling, and maximizing resource utilization, to enable tradespersons to perform quality work in a safe, effective and efficient manner at the LNGC Site in Kitimat, BC.

Responsibilities

• Displays a commitment to Waiward’s incident-free vision, values, and culture;
• Ability to create detailed project plans and schedules;
• Ensures the Construction Work Packages are issued on time and in the proper sequence;
• Ensures the work processes are set up and all project information is understood and accessible to all personnel required;
• Ability to assign responsibility for integration planning to resolve anticipated conflicts proactively;
• Ability to assign responsibility for material, construction equipment, and specialty tool coordination to dedicated personnel;
• Efficiently tracks the progress of each work plan and provides targets to crews to drive performance;
• Plans for unforeseen circumstances in order to meet deadlines;
• Communicate and coordinate with stakeholders to provide clarity surrounding equipment/facility downtime;
• Understands typical maintenance/construction project scheduling;
• Effectively maintains accurate manpower loading for internal resources;
• Demonstrates strategies used to manage the schedule impacts caused by change;
• Participate in weekly site inspections (Progress, HSE);
• Perform other related duties as required.

Qualifications

• Post Secondary Education; Degree, Diploma, or Certificate in related field;
• 3 to 5 years of experience in the maintenance/construction industry in a supervisory role an asset;
• Multi-discipline construction field experience an asset;
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.), SAP and Primavera;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to prioritize a large workload;

Working Conditions

The incumbent is required to work on a maintenance/construction site with moderate noise, extreme temperatures, inclement weather and other safety sensitive conditions associated with industrial site/plant work.

Physical Requirements

The incumbent is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; viewing a computer terminal for extended periods of time; and extensive reading. The incumbent is also required to stand and sit for extended periods of time.

Direct Reports

None

*We would like to thank all applicants for their interest. Please note due to high volumes of resumes received; only successful candidates will be contacted. Waiward is an equal opportunity employer.*

About the Company

For more than 40 years, Waiward has been one of Canada’s largest steel fabricators and erectors and a leading provider of construction, engineering and drafting services. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, we add value to projects from conception to...