Head of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
CA$140,000 – CA$170,000 / yr base salary
Posted 17 Aug 2026
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 10–15 yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
| Base salary | CA$140,000 – CA$170,000 / yr |
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Project
The Woodfibre LNG Project is located approximately 7 km west-southwest of Squamish, British Columbia. It involves the construction and operation of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the previous Woodfibre pulp mill site, which would have a storage capacity of 250,000 m3 and would produce approximately 2.1 million tons per year of LNG.
Woodfibre Management Ltd. is a privately held Canadian company based in Vancouver and a subsidiary of Pacific Energy Corporation Limited.
Position
The Head of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling is an integral part of Woodfibre LNG’s dynamic team. The head of Planning & Scheduling is accountable for establishing and continuously improving the maintenance planning and scheduling function to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient execution of maintenance activities across the asset. You will provides leadership for the end-to-end work management process, from identification and prioritization of work through planning, scheduling, execution, close-out, and performance feedback. Ensures that maintenance work is sufficiently planned, properly prioritized, resource-loaded, and scheduled to enable safe and efficient execution while optimizing labour, contractor resources, materials, equipment, and maintenance windows.
Key Responsibilities**:**
During the Project Execution phase, the successful applicant will:
· Provide leadership for the maintenance work management system and ensure SAP/CMMS is effectively supporting maintenance execution
· Lead the Implementation of the maintenance CMS System (S4Hanna)
· Establish SAP work management standards
· Develop and maintain the site's Planning & Scheduling strategy aligned with the overall Maintenance and Asset Management strategy.
· Establish a robust maintenance planning and scheduling KPI framework.
· Develop the Planning and schedule standards and practices
· Develop appropriate KPIs and dashboards
· Ensure maintenance master data supports effective planning and scheduling
· Continuously improve work management maturity using industry best practices
· Partner with IT/SAP teams on system improvements
· Develop resource-loading strategies based on forecast maintenance demand
· Ensure contractor resources are aligned with forecast workload
· Own the health of the maintenance backlog and ensure work is properly categorized, prioritized and planned.
· Lead the development of a disciplined scheduling process that optimizes available resources.