Maintenance Planner

Job Description :

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. From global icons like Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray to Smirnoff and Don Julio, we create brands consumers love. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate and innovate. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function:

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

About the Role

The Asset Care Planner plays a key role in improving asset reliability and supporting effective maintenance execution. This position is responsible for developing maintenance work plans, coordinating resources and materials, managing maintenance backlogs, supporting outage planning, and driving continuous improvement within the site's asset care program.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and coordinate detailed maintenance work plans, job packages, and schedules.
• Ensure labour, materials, tools, contractors, and vendor support are available for maintenance activities.
• Conduct field assessments and incorporate safety requirements into work plans.
• Manage maintenance backlogs and support weekly maintenance scheduling.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records, documentation, and equipment data in SAP.
• Support preventive, predictive, and reliability-focused maintenance programs.
• Participate in outage planning and execution activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintenance processes, planning accuracy, and asset reliability.
• Communicate effectively with operations, tradespeople, contractors, and leadership teams.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications, Experience, Skills & Competencies

• High school diploma or equivalent; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a maintenance, manufacturing, or skilled trade's environment.
• Strong mechanical and/or electrical proficiency and ability to interpret technical drawings, specifications, and manuals.
• Experience with SAP Plant Maintenance or other Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
• Experience with maintenance planning, shutdowns, reliability improvement, and leadership is considered an asset.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong planning, organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Gimli Plant

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-08-07GIMLI, CANADA: SALARY RANGE IS FROM $69,000 TO $115,000 (ANNUAL)

At Diageo certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual incentive payment and stock awards. US-based employees are eligible for healthcare benefits, retirement benefits , short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellness benefits and industry leading parental leave, among others. (Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Diageo and the country where you work.) The salary range displayed is the salary range for the role’s primary location.