Maintenance Planner
Job location: Onsite-Pemberton, BC
Employment type: Full Time, Permanent Employment
Hours: 40 Hours per week
Compensation : $65,000 - $80,000 annually to start

A little about us

Aurora is proud to be a global leader in the cannabis industry. With a smart strategy, unmatched talent and focus on our long-term success, we believe we have a bright future.   
At Aurora, we’re passionate about helping patients improve their lives through high-quality premium medical cannabis under brands they can trust and rely on. Our products, available across Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, include leading brands like Pedanios, IndiMed, San Raf, Tasty’s, Whistler, Greybeard and CraftPlant.  
 Our diverse team works passionately across various roles, from manufacturing to corporate positions, and many more, united by our purpose: Opening the World to Cannabis. Enabled by science and empowered by people, we care for patients and consumers. We collaborate globally, embrace change with courage, stay agile, and treat everyone with compassion. We live our values daily, making a meaningful impact on patients, consumers, communities, and our A-Team. 

Job summary

As a Maintenance Planner, you will be responsible for scheduling and planning maintenance work, estimating costs, and ensuring the efficient use of resources across the Alpine facility. The role is accountable for developing, coordinating, and optimizing preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance plans to support safe, reliable, and efficient operations.

Reporting to the Director, Facility Management, the Maintenance Planner plays a critical role in planning and executing maintenance activities that promote safe operations and optimize the performance of the physical plant and its associated equipment. This role works cross-functionally with Engineering, HSE, Quality, Procurement, and Finance, ensuring maintenance plans align with operational, safety, compliance, and quality standards. 

The Planner will maximize the effectiveness of the CMMS, proactively reduce downtime, and minimize operational disruptions. The role also includes oversight of contractors, coordination of external service providers, and close partnership with Procurement on sourcing parts, services, and materials. The Maintenance Planner contributes to maintenance cost planning and spend forecasting, supports data sharing with Finance, and helps ensure cost-effective purchasing and resource allocation decisions. Additionally, the Planner will take a lead role in purchasing coordination and contractor management,ensuring seamless execution of maintenance work, strong vendor performance, and alignment with facility priorities.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

1. Maintenance Planning & Scheduling:

· Develop detailed maintenance job plans, including scope, labor, tools, parts, safety requirements, and estimated durations.

· Coordinate and schedule daily, weekly, and long-range maintenance activities, including internal teams and external contractors.

· Review and prioritize work requests, allocate work orders, and align maintenance schedules with production and operational needs.

· Communicate expected equipment availability, downtime, and real-time delays to stakeholders, providing mitigation recommendations.

2. Management Preventive, Predictive & Reliability Maintenance:

· Maintain and continuously improve the Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Predictive Maintenance programs.

· Track PM compliance and support equipment reliability strategies.

· Perform equipment reliability analysis and support Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), recommending corrective and preventive improvements.

· Support site engineering initiatives, including PERTS and reliability-focused projects.

3. Work Order & CMMS Administration:

· Administer and maintain CMMS (DIMO, Envysion, PRIVA) data integrity, including asset information, job plans, and maintenance history.

· Update CMMS with labor hours, parts usage, contractor costs, and work completion details.

 · Generate maintenance performance reports and support KPI tracking with the Director, Facility Management.

· Utilize CMMS, ERP systems, Isolocity, and other maintenance and operational software platforms.

4. Parts, Materials, Inventory & Vendor Coordination:

· Identify required spare parts, special tools, and materials for planned work.

· Coordinate with Procurement to order consumables, services, and spare parts based on lead times.

· Monitor and maintain critical spare parts inventory levels.

· Support inventory management, asset tracking, and maintenance warehouse organization.

· Manage vendor relationships, coordinate contractor work, and oversee vendor performance.

· Receive and match invoices, documenting and resolving discrepancies. 

5. Cross-Functional Coordination & Operational Support:

· Facilitate communication between Maintenance and other onsite departments including Engineering, HSE, Quality, Production, and Finance.

 · Provide a central source of information regarding maintenance work, equipment status, and repair history.

 · Optimize manufacturing and maintenance schedules to ensure product availability while balancing machine capacity, materials, and manpower.

· Assist the maintenance team on the floor with tools, technical coordination, or planning support as needed.

 6. Compliance, Safety & Standards

· Ensure all planned work aligns with safety procedures, GMP, and regulatory requirements.

· Prepare job packages including permits, procedures, and safety documentation.

· Support inspections and regulatory compliance activities (e.g. Technical Safety BC, WorkSafeBC, and other authorities).

· Assist with documentation and evidence gathering for audits. 

7. Financial & Resource Planning Support

· Estimate maintenance costs and support maintenance spend forecasting.

· Share planning and cost data with Finance and operational leaders.

· Provide financial insight to support production planning aligned with sales volumes and resource capacity.

 · Perform cost-benefit analyses for maintenance strategies and process improvement initiatives.

8. Continuous Improvement

 · Analyze maintenance and reliability data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.

· Support KPI development and performance tracking.

· Update and optimize job plans, procedures, and planning processes to improve efficiency and reduce downtime.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

· Strong understanding of facility systems, equipment, and building infrastructure.

· Solid knowledge of maintenance planning, asset management, inventory control, and reliability principles in a manufacturing or facility environment.

· Proficiency with CMMS platforms (e.g., DIMO, Envysion, PRIVA), including maintaining accurate asset, work order, and maintenance history data.

· Advanced proficiency in MS Office, including strong Excel capability; able to interpret maintenance, cost, and performance data to support decision-making.

· Understanding of preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, equipment reliability, and root cause analysis concepts.

· Ability to read and interpret technical documents, drawings, manuals, and specifications.

· Familiarity with regulatory, code, and safety environments, including working alongside HSE and supporting compliance documentation and inspections.

· Proven ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment and work on projects collectively.

· Knowledge of parts, materials, vendor, and contractor management, including lead times, cost awareness, and service coordination.

· Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and shifting deadlines with accuracy.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

· Demonstrated problem-solving and critical-thinking ability.

· Self-directed, accountable, and highly detail-oriented, with strong follow-through.

Education & Experience:

· Minimum 3-5 years of experience in maintenance, facilities, or maintenance planning.

· Post-secondary education in maintenance, facilities management, or a related field.

· Hands-on CMMS experience required.

· Knowledge of applicable codes, regulations, safety standards, and maintenance best practices.

· Experience in a manufacturing environment is an asset.

· Experience using ERP systems, Isolocity, and related operational or quality management software is an asset.

Working Conditions:

•    The role involves working in both office and production environments, including areas with exposure to noise, dust, varying temperatures, and controlled substances.
•    Must be comfortable working in a regulated environment and adhering to strict compliance and safety protocols.
•    The role requires frequent walking, standing, and site inspections within operational areas, which may include climbing stairs.

Why you’ll love working at Aurora
Our people are at the heart of everything we do here at Aurora, and we take pride in fostering an inclusive space that inspires our team to love where they work! From rewarding career opportunities to flexible work environments to team activities, we go above and beyond to prioritize your success and here’s how we do it…   

• Flexibility: you will enjoy a flexible work environment that is the perfect blend of work and fun! With flexible working hours to compressed work weeks to paid sick and vacation time, you will be empowered to achieve work-life balance.
• Total rewards: we will motivate you to go above and beyond with a competitive salary or hourly wage (with shift premiums), stock options, an RRSP program, annual bonuses, and a health and personal care spending account for you to use for gym memberships, ski passes or staycations.
• Benefits: we will foster your health and wellness (and your dependents) with our employee benefits package including, employer-paid health and dentalcare premiums, life insurance and LTD policies and a medical cannabis coverage program, designed exclusively for our A-Team, that will provide you with $1500 of coverage each year (because we truly believe cannabis is the best medicine). 
• Life-long learning: we’re lifelong learners here at Aurora and will invest in your professional development throughout all aspects of your career! You will have access to a tuition assistance program, virtual learning activities and annual performance reviews, to ensure you are provided with the toolkit and support you need to succeed.
• Perks: we love to celebrate our people by providing corporate perks including employee discounts, perkopolis memberships, company SWAG, paid volunteer time, modern technology and snacks and beverages at all our office locations.

• Team: we are a diverse and global team of cannabis enthusiasts, energetic innovators, fitness gurus, caring parents, foodies and more, with a collective passion to nurture an inclusive environment that helps you grow and provide people better days with medical cannabis.

Next Steps

Apply today by submitting your resume through our website. You can expect your application to be reviewed by our Talent Acquisition Team and not an AI software/system.  The we will contact you if we see a fit via email.

Think you’re the ideal candidate but you don’t meet all the requirements? Apply anyways. We would love to review your application to see if you’re the right fit or find you an alternative opportunity.  Not the role for you? Share this posting with your network while subscribing to our Talent Community to learn more about upcoming opportunities (if you are an Aurora employee, take advantage of the employee referral program by sharing this posting with someone in your network! If they are the successful candidate, you may be eligible for a bonus!). 

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Accessibility

At Aurora, we are proud to foster and celebrate a diverse community of professionals! We take pride in nurturing an inclusive culture that empowers our people to be their authentic selves, celebrate their differences and love where they work.

Our diverse community combined with our inclusive culture, is what sets us apart in the industry and equips our A-Team with superpowers – and this is why, we encourage all candidates to apply for job opportunities regardless of race, national origin, colour, religion, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital and family status, disability, or any other identifying characteristic.

We value the unique skills and experience each person brings to Aurora and are committed to creating and maintaining an accessible environment. We are committed to the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act so if you require accommodation during the hiring process, please let our Human Resources team know by contacting us at hr.services@auroramj.com