Maintenance Planner II

Post Consumer Brands•Battle Creek, MI

10d•Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as a critical link between Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance, ensuring that maintenance work is planned, prioritized, staffed, and executed efficiently for safe and reliable facility operation. The Maintenance Planner II will coordinate work across a large-scale manufacturing operation (approximately 1.5 million square feet) supporting a wide variety of equipment, from legacy systems to newer technologies. Success in this role requires hands-on involvement on the plant floor, understanding equipment, evaluating work requirements, coordinating resources, and building effective plans for maintenance teams. The Maintenance Planner is considered the "heartbeat" of the maintenance organization.

Requirements

Associate degree, or equivalent work experience, in a technical or manufacturing discipline required.
Experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
Two to five years of maintenance planning or similar experience.
Knowledge of maintenance management principles, including precision maintenance, preventive maintenance, shutdown planning, and contingency planning.
Strong mechanical aptitude, analytical thinking, communication, organization, and prioritization skills.
Ability to influence across the facility, manage multiple priorities, teach and train others, and drive continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree preferred.
Certified Maintenance & Reliability Technician (CMRT) or similar certification preferred.
Fundamental understanding of plant production and packaging processes.
Five or more years of engineering or maintenance experience in a plant environment preferred.
Four years using EAM/CMMS systems preferred; Infor EAM experience is desirable.
Food manufacturing experience is helpful but not required.
Maintenance leadership, lead technician, supervisor, coordinator, or planner experience can all provide a strong foundation for success in this role.

Responsibilities

Plan and coordinate maintenance work by reviewing new work orders, confirming job scope, estimating labor and material needs, and building complete job packages.
Maintain an accurate, up-to-date maintenance backlog and ensure work order information is complete, accurate, and ready for execution.
Identify job steps, safety requirements, lockouts, tag-outs, permits, parts, materials, tools, labor hours, and cost estimates needed to complete work successfully.
Coordinate with Maintenance Supervisors, Planners, Storeroom partners, contractors, and operations teams to align work with available resources and business priorities.
Support weekly maintenance schedules and shutdown schedules by reconciling manpower needs with available resources.
Prepare, publish, and support shutdown schedules, including manpower planning, timeline development, and post-shutdown lessons learned.
Maintain accurate data in EAM/CMMS systems, including equipment master records, repair histories, preventive maintenance plans, equipment bills of materials, and completed work updates.
Serve as a site superuser for maintenance systems and processes, including training and mentoring maintenance technicians, planners, and operations teams on EAM usage.
Create standard work, recurring preventive and predictive maintenance routines, site reports, and KPIs.
Participate in projects involving requirements, maintainability, equipment reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget.
The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, Grape-Nuts™ and Malt-O-Meal™ cereal and Peter Pan™ peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9Lives™ dog and cat food.
Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola.
As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all.
Big company opportunity. Small company attitude. Discover just right.
Careers happen when talented people have the opportunity to make a real impact.
This is a role where your planning makes a real difference.
You'll help determine how maintenance work is prioritized, prepared, scheduled, and executed across a large-scale manufacturing operation.
The work you do directly impacts equipment reliability, maintenance efficiency, and operational performance.
You'll join a collaborative team that works closely across Maintenance, Engineering, and Operations.
Team members support one another, share knowledge, and work together to solve challenges that keep the facility running.
You'll also have the opportunity to work in an environment that's investing in predictive maintenance technologies and automated data collection while still providing hands-on exposure to a wide variety of industrial systems and equipment.
For professionals looking to grow their careers, this role can provide future opportunities in Reliability, Maintenance Leadership, Shift Leadership, and Operations Maintenance Coordination.
Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make your mark in an organization that combines the resources of a large company with the ability to have a meaningful handprint on the work you do every day.