Suncor Energy

Maintenance Coordinator

Suncor Energy$100K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in maintenance or operations, ideally with dual exposure
  • Experience managing a $50M annual maintenance budget
  • SAGD experience with strong plant operations knowledge
  • Competency in maintenance planning, scheduling, and prioritization
  • Strong safety commitment and risk-based decision-making skills
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and continuous improvement focus
  • Experience with turnaround planning and execution

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate maintenance activities to ensure safety and efficiency
  • Provide input on maintenance priorities and schedule based on risk
  • Review and prioritize Work Notifications for safety and production
  • Ensure Work Notifications are detailed for effective planning
  • Represent the unit in readiness and prioritization meetings
  • Monitor work order performance and backlog health
  • Input into outage and turnaround planning and execution
  • Steward the maintenance budget, tracking costs and forecasting
  • Collaborate with teams to maintain equipment reliability and safety
  • Lead development of long-term maintenance plans and budgets

Benefits

  • FIFO camp-based position with travel from Calgary or Edmonton
  • 4 on / 3 off shift schedule
  • Work at the largest SAGD operation in the world
  • Focus on safety and operational discipline
  • Collaborative environment with multiple operational teams
Full Job Description
Minimum Requirements:
  • Minimum 10 years of maintenance and/or operations experience, preferably with exposure to both
  • Experience managing, stewarding, and developing budgets that support integrated operations; this role supports an annual maintenance budget of approximately $50M
  • Preference for SAGD experience, with a solid understanding of plant operations, maintenance priorities, and safe work execution
  • Demonstrated knowledge of maintenance planning, scheduling, work prioritization, and execution in a fast-paced operating environment
  • Strong commitment to safety and operational discipline, with the ability to make sound, risk-based decisions
  • Strong communication, collaboration, relationship-building skills, and a continuous improvement mindset
  • Experience with outage and turnaround planning and execution
  • Exposure to reliability, QA, and engineering interfaces within a SAGD plant
  • A valid driver's license
  • Experience using SAP and Microsoft Office


Responsibilities:
  • Coordinate maintenance activities within the Production Unit to support safe, reliable, and efficient execution
  • Provide Operations input on maintenance priorities, requirements, and weekly scheduling, with safety and production risk as key considerations
  • Review and prioritize Work Notifications daily, ensuring work that poses significant risk to people, environment, or production is advanced appropriately
  • Ensure Work Notifications are properly screened and contain sufficient detail to support safe and effective planning and execution
  • Represent the Production Unit in readiness and prioritization meetings and approve the weekly maintenance schedule
  • Monitor work order lifecycle performance and backlog health, working closely with Maintenance Execution and Planning to support safe, compliant, and timely completion of work
  • Provide Operations input to outage and turnaround planning, scoping, and execution support
  • Support stewardship of the Production Unit maintenance budget, including forecasting, accruals, cost tracking, and recommending actions to meet budget targets
  • Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, QA teams to maintain equipment in a safe, reliable, and cost-effective manner
  • Lead the development of the Production Unit's 10-year maintenance budget and long-range plan, collaborating with technical and maintenance teams to ensure alignment with integrated operations, asset needs, and business priorities
  • Identify capital spending needs and support change management activities related to asset changes and operating practice updates


Location and Other Key Details:
  • You will work out of our Firebag location, which is our largest In Situ operation and one of the largest in the world (and located 120 km northeast of Fort McMurray, Alberta)
  • This is a FIFO camp-based position; you will FIFO from a Suncor hub location: Calgary or Edmonton, Alberta
  • The shift schedule is a 4 days on / 3 days off rotation
  • This is a safety sensitive position

About Suncor Energy

Suncor pioneered commercial development of Canada's Athabasca oil sands — one of the world's largest petroleum resource basins. Since then, Suncor has grown to become a globally-competitive, Canadian-based integrated energy company with a balanced portfolio of high quality assets, a strong balance sheet and significant growth prospects.

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