Senior Maintenance Planner

YVR is a place of connection, bringing together people, places and cargo while ensuring a safe and efficient experience for everyone. Baggage Operations is an integral part of providing the safe, reliable and predictable delivery of every passenger’s bag, every time.

Position overview

We have a permanent full-time opportunity for Senior Maintenance Planner in the Baggage Operations team. Reporting to the Manager, Baggage Systems, the successful candidate will be responsible in ensuring that our equipment and facilities are consistently operational, reliable, and available to the traveling public, tenants, and airport partners. Leverage the available budget to execute smarter, cost-effective strategies. and focus on maximizing budget return by employing planned maintenance where it proves more effective than alternatives. Enhance equipment reliability and availability by implementing the most effective planned maintenance schedules and swiftly restoring equipment to its designed capability.

Key responsibilities include:

• Generates daily work orders for all crews, ensures the availability of future work orders for at least 14 days, reviews completed work orders for comments, variances, and completeness, and follows up with adjustments or coordination as needed.
• Maintains accurate records for all physical assets, equipment registers, vendor information, Maximo database, and ensures compliance with life/safety and environmental preventative maintenance certifications and schedules.
• Oversees the development and implementation of preventative and predictive maintenance plans for baggage system, ensuring compliance with manufacturers' recommendations, established standards, and YVRAA maintenance practices, while incorporating these activities into CMMS/Maximo.
• Prepares, analyzes, and interprets complex data to create comprehensive maintenance reports, recommends improvements to maintenance policies, organizes specialized programs, reviews plans, and participates in budget preparation, including cost estimates and staff justifications
• Coordinates training and instructs the maintenance planning group and managers on all aspects of the Maximo application, addresses user questions in various formats, and fosters positive working relationships within and outside the department.
• Stays updated with advances in preventive and predictive maintenance technology and CMMS, visits outside companies for insights, implements new maintenance programs, develops system integrations, monitors standards and performance guidelines, ensures compliance with requirements, and incorporates multidisciplinary programs to enhance maintenance efforts.
• Conducts field inspections, collaborates with maintenance teams to identify and coordinate baggage system maintenance needs, provides technical expertise for incorporating new equipment into Maximo, investigates equipment failures, and maintains knowledge of baggage systems and maintenance operations.
  

Key qualifications include:

• At least five years’ experience planning, inspecting and evaluating preventative/repair maintenance needs of complex equipment and facilities, supplemented by the completion of a college certificate or diploma in engineering, technology, business or a related field; or an equivalent combination of training and experience
• Proven experience analyzing complex problems, evaluating alternatives and recommending effective courses of action, as well as developing and promoting work standards and processes
• Extensive knowledge of the principles and methods of effective maintenance planning and scheduling
• Expert level knowledge of:
  • Core modules of Maximo (i.e., Work Order Tracking, Assets, Job Plans, Preventive Maintenance)
  • BI Reporting Tools for budgeting and accrual reports
  • MS Office (especially Excel)
• Building and managing schedules and shift change notices in Kronos
• Well-developed interpersonal skills as this role works proactively and respectfully with various internal and external stakeholders
• Class 5 provincial driver’s license

This position is open to both Vancouver Airport Authority employees and external applicants. Previous job performance will be taken into consideration for all internal candidates that apply for this position.

Salary Range : $88,268 to $ 115,362 per annum, based on a 40-hour work week. This is individually tailored to reflect your unique experience, qualifications and internal equity.

At YVR, your work experience goes beyond the paycheck. We support your personal and professional development, well-being, and a thriving work culture with generous vacation days, extensive health benefits, retirement savings matching, wellness programs, community engagement, commuting support, and continuous learning opportunities. Learn more at https://careers.yvr.ca/benefits.

YVR is more than just an airport. We connect our beautiful province and all it has to offer to the world. We are all leaders and trailblazers for change and innovation, so no matter the department or team you’re a part of, the work you do matters.

At YVR, we are flexible in everything we do. We will work together to find ways to deliver customer excellence that helps us all thrive.

Whatever your background and wherever you’re from, you belong at YVR. If you have any questions about accessibility or require any assistance applying, please reach out at careers@yvr.ca.