Maintenance Planner

About Red Deer: 

Red Deer sits at the heart of Central Alberta along the QEII corridor, perfectly positioned between Calgary and Edmonton. With more than 100,000 residents and a regional reach of over 300,000, it’s a growing hub for business, services, and opportunity.

Here, big-city amenities meet small-city ease. Enjoy abundant parks and trails, vibrant arts and culture, excellent recreation and education, and a strong sense of community.

With easy access to lakes, outdoor adventures, and the mountains, plus a thriving economy and high quality of life, Red Deer is an inviting place to live, work, and grow.

About The City of Red Deer Municipal Government

The City of Red Deer is a dynamic municipal organization with a $480M operating budget, a $60M capital program, and a workforce of nearly 1,700 employees. It is focused on growing with purpose by attracting talented, community-minded people who want to make a difference.

Guided by the vision “Our City, One Voice,” Red Deer is building a thriving, inclusive, and connected community, with priorities centered on a vibrant economy, community wellbeing, and strong engagement.

At its core, the City values its people, embracing diverse perspectives and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and shared success

The Opportunity

The City of Red Deer is currently hiring a permanent, full-time Maintenance Planner. The Maintenance Planner is responsible for ensuring maintenance work at the Wastewater Treatment Plant is fully planned, resourced, scheduled, and documented prior to execution. This position improves workforce efficiency, increases productive tool time, supports asset reliability, and enables supervisory staff to focus on leadership, safety, and long-term maintenance strategies. They ensure maintenance activities support regulatory compliance, environmental protection, and protection of public health. 

Top Key Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive maintenance work packages, including scope, safety requirements, procedures, drawings, tools, materials, permits, and required trade resources. 

• Prepare labour, material, and duration estimates to support efficient maintenance planning and execution. 

• Conduct field inspections to verify job scope, equipment condition, access requirements, and resource needs prior to scheduling work. 

• Create and coordinate weekly, short-term, long-range, shutdown, and outage maintenance schedules in collaboration with Operations and contractors. 

• Maintain and optimize CMMS data, including preventative maintenance programs, work orders, equipment records, and asset history documentation. 

• Coordinate inventory, materials, critical spare parts, and purchasing activities to ensure maintenance readiness and minimize work delays. 

• Analyze maintenance performance, reliability trends, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify continuous improvement opportunities and support asset management strategies.

As our preferred candidate, you will have

Education

• Grade 12 or equivalent

  • Journeyperson Certificate in a recognized 4-year industrial trade (Millwright, Electrician, Instrumentation & Control Technician, or Plumbing) from an accredited program.

  • Formal training in maintenance planning and asset management principles (e.g., PEMAC MMP modules or equivalent recognized reliability certification) is considered an asset. 

  • Equivalent combinations of education and directly related industrial maintenance planning experience may be considered.

Experience

• Minimum five (5) years progressively responsible experience in an industrial maintenance environment.

  • Experience in maintenance planning, work package development, scheduling, or asset reliability analysis within a regulated industrial or municipal utility environment.

  • Demonstrated experience interpreting technical drawings, specifications, P&IDs, and equipment documentation.

Knowledge & Technical Competence

• Working knowledge of MMS systems.

  • Knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance programs and reliability-centered maintenance principles.

  • Knowledge of industrial safety practices including lockout/tagout, confined space entry, hazard assessments, and safe work permitting.

  • Understanding of municipal wastewater treatment operations or similar regulated process environments.

Certifications & Requirements

• Valid Class 5 Alberta Driver’s Licence.

  • Ability to obtain and maintain required safety certifications (Confined Space Entry, Lockout/Tagout, Respiratory Protection, Fall Protection, First Aid, etc.).

Required Skills 

• Ability to plan, organize, and sequence complex maintenance activities within established policies and approved priorities.

• Ability to analyze asset data, maintenance history, and performance trends and make sound technical recommendations to improve reliability and efficiency.

• Ability to provide functional direction and coordination to trades, operators, contractors, and vendors related to planned maintenance activities, without formal supervisory authority.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare detailed work packages, technical documentation, reports, and correspondence.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, contractors, vendors, regulatory representatives, and other stakeholders.

• Proficiency in the use of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), databases, spreadsheets, and standard office software applications.

• Demonstrated mechanical and technical aptitude, including the ability to read and interpret blueprints, drawings, schematics, P&IDs, specifications, and technical manuals.

• Ability to troubleshoot diverse maintenance planning and coordination issues where precedent may not always exist and exercise sound technical judgment.

• Working knowledge of applicable industrial safety standards, regulatory requirements, and the Approval to Operate as they relate to maintenance activities.

• Demonstrated commitment to safe work practices, including proper use of personal protective equipment and safety monitoring devices.            

Affiliation

Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 417 

Status

Regular Full-time

Remuneration

$43.03 to $45.29 per hour.

Hours of Work: 

80 hours biweekly, Monday to Friday. Some evening and weekend work may be required.

The City of Red Deer does not permit the use of unauthorized internet resources or Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools  (for example, Copilot, ChatGPT or any other form of AI) during interviews or any supervised or timed assessments.  Any violation may be investigated and result in serious consequences, including the rejection of your application.

We thank you for your application. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.