About Mike Maleki, PMP®, CMRP
Personal introduction
Professional background
Maintenance Planner — Denison Mines | Mar 2025 – Present
Building the maintenance foundation for a pre-production mining operation from the ground up — developing asset maintenance plans, work management procedures, PM programs using OEM documentation, and MRO master data in the CMMS. Contributing to asset criticality analysis and spare parts inventory planning.
Sessional Lecturer( Part Time) — University of Saskatchewan | Sep 2024 –Present
Taught Introduction to Operations Management to BCom students, bringing real-world industrial experience into the classroom. Bridging the gap between academic operations theory and field-level practice.
Production Scheduler — Prairie Machine and Parts | Jul 2023 – Mar 2025
Managed production scheduling using Epicor ERP, optimizing schedules against demand forecasts, customer orders, and inventory constraints. Focused on waste reduction and cycle time improvement through data analysis.
Asset Reliability Planning Specialist — Maple Leaf Foods | Apr 2023 – Jul 2023
Planned and scheduled maintenance using visual scheduling tools, PowerBI, and SAP. Tracked and improved maintenance KPIs through data-driven analysis, and prioritized work using criticality assessment.
Team Leadership
Maintenance Planning Head — Arya Sasol Polymer | May 2013 – Jul 2021
Led a team of seven planners across two polymer plants (LDPE and HDPE) with combined annual production exceeding 700,000 tons. Managed all facets of maintenance planning using IFS ERP, including HSE, spare parts, manpower, and tooling. A formative period developing deep expertise in large-scale industrial reliability.
Maintenance Planning & Inspection Supervisor — Mehr Petrochemical | Jul 2008 – Apr 2013
Oversaw a team of nine planners and inspectors managing preventive maintenance for an HDPE plant with 350,000 tons/year production capacity. Led turnaround planning, scheduling, and reporting. Supervised predictive maintenance technicians performing vibration analysis, thermography, and oil analysis across 250+ pieces of rotating, static, and electrical equipment.
Education
Institution: University of Saskatchewan
Period: Sep 2021 – Mar 2023
Institution: Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology)
Period: Sep 2001 – Aug 2005
Credentials & certifications
- PMP® — Project Management Professional, PMI (Mar 2024)
- CMRP — Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, SMRP (Jun 2023)
- Physical Asset Management — University of Toronto C-More (2012)
- Managing Turnarounds & Outages Projects — EuroMaTech Training and
- Management Consultancy (2016)
- Total Quality Management System — SCG Training (2011)
"Weibull Analysis for HP Packing of Secondary Compressor in LDPE Plant"
Professional background
Enterprise Systems
- SAP PM Module — Expert
- Epicor ERP (Production Module) — Expert
- IFS ERP (Maintenance Module) — Expert
Productivity & Analytics
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel with Pivot Tables, MS Project) — Expert
- PowerBI — Proficient
- T-SQL, STATA, Python — Intermediate
Turnaround Project — Mehr Petrochemical (Jun 2012)
