Maintenance Planner-Buyer

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Position Description

Job Title: Maintenance Planner-Buyer

Department: Maintenance

Location: Cornwall, ON

Reports To: Maintenance Supervisor

Status: Full-Time, Exempt

Position Overview: The Maintenance Planner-Buyer plays a vital role in ensuring the efficiency and reliability of maintenance operations by organizing and scheduling maintenance activities, managing spare parts inventory, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. This position acts as a key contributor to equipment performance and reliability, working closely with maintenance and operations teams to align maintenance planning with production goals, safety standards, and long-term operational excellence.

Principle Accountabilities

Facilitate maintenance planning and related meetings by preparing priorities, outage schedules and support continuous improvement through analysis of recurring equipment issues and failure trends.

Assign and coordinate PM and CM work orders with the maintenance team, ensuring instructions are clear and include OEM checklists where applicable, with required parts, materials, and labour resources (internal and external) available.

Develop and maintain weekly maintenance schedules and planned equipment outages, ensuring all tasks are fully prepared in advance.

Review equipment breakdowns with the team and follow up as required to: Order necessary parts Ensure all the Spares parts are registered in the inventory using CMMS Send components for external repair (motors, machine shop work etc.) Assess and adjust spare parts inventory levels