Maintenance Planner/Scheduler
About The Position
The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler is the primary resource and trusted business partner for the Maintenance and Operations teams at Sandridge Crafted Foods. The role plans, coordinates, and schedules preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance so that Maintenance Supervisors and Technicians can execute work safely, efficiently, and to a high standard. It requires extensive experience maintaining and repairing production and packaging equipment, plus the ability to create step-by-step job plans and identify necessary parts, internal labor, and outside resources. The position uses CMMS systems to manage the work order backlog, plan machine rebuilds, and ensure critical spare parts are kitted and ready, while meeting people and food safety requirements. Responsibilities span maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS administration, preventive maintenance program improvement, equipment rebuild planning, maintenance analytics and audits, and critical spare parts and MRO support. The role also serves as assistant and backup to the MRO Buyer and may involve driving company vehicles to collect or deliver parts or traveling to offsite storage.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- Valid driver's license.
- Advanced computer skills, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and Zoom.
- Extensive experience with CMMS/EAM software such as Limble, eMaint, Fiix, Maintenance Connection, Micromain, SAP, or equivalent.
- Strong knowledge of industrial MRO components, including bearings, sprockets, chains, sensors, motors, gearboxes, O-rings, gaskets, and cylinders.
- Strong written and verbal communication and meeting facilitation skills.
- Ability to interpret maintenance data, OEM manuals, drawings, BOMs, and spare-part recommendations.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and committed to accuracy.
- Ability to multitask, adapt to changing priorities, and work independently to meet deadlines.
Nice To Haves
- 5–7 years of industrial maintenance experience; food manufacturing experience is a plus.
- Hands-on experience in mechanical, electrical, multi-craft, or controls work.
- 3–5 years in maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS administration, and/or MRO support.
- Experience with PM development, backlog management, equipment rebuilds, shutdown planning, MRO inventory, and maintenance data analysis.
Responsibilities
- Develop detailed job plans that define scope, labor estimates, crafts, safety requirements, tools, parts, contractor support, and estimated duration.
- Perform field walk-downs with managers, supervisors, and technicians before scheduling complex work.
- Review production schedules and coordinate with Operations and Production Scheduling on line availability and planned downtime.
- Coordinate outside contractor schedules with Maintenance Leadership and plan holiday shutdowns and equipment rebuilds ahead of seasonal production ramp-ups.
- Develop and maintain daily, weekly, monthly, and shutdown maintenance schedules.
- Communicate planned-work priorities to Maintenance Leadership and technicians and facilitate the weekly Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Meeting.
- Maintain a prioritized work order backlog based on safety, food safety, asset criticality, and production risk.
- Monitor work requests from the CMMS portal, email, safety audits, phone, and radio to ensure timely assignment and completion.
- Maintain the asset hierarchy, naming conventions, and asset QR/barcode tags in the CMMS.
- Maintain complete documentation for critical assets, including manuals, electrical schematics, critical spare parts lists, setup and centerline guides, work instructions, and LOTO procedures.
- Maintain accurate failure history, failure codes, corrective actions, and technician feedback; ensure work orders are coded, documented, closed on time, and marked ready to schedule.
- Manage active CMMS users and licenses.
- Develop and improve preventive maintenance procedures using OEM manuals, CMMS data, technician experience, and reliability data; set PM frequencies and evaluate calendar-based versus meter-based triggers.
- Support the transition toward Predictive Maintenance, Condition-Based Monitoring, and Reliability Centered Maintenance.
- Create and manage the machine rebuild plan, coordinate OEM and contractor evaluations, periodic services, and rebuilds, and work with the MRO Buyer to ensure parts are ordered, available, and kitted.
- Build KPI dashboards covering PM and schedule compliance, backlog health, planned versus reactive work, labor utilization, MTBF, MTTR, downtime, inventory accuracy, and maintenance costs.
- Analyze maintenance data for trends, recurring failure modes, and root causes; prepare reports and recommendations for Maintenance Leadership and support RCFA activities.
- Develop inspection and audit schedules, checklists, and corrective action tracking for PMs, in-process work, and completed work.
- Trend audit findings, recommend updates to job plans and PM procedures, and share objective findings with leadership to support technician coaching and craftsmanship.
- Serve as assistant and backup to the MRO Buyer; coordinate parts purchasing, repair and rebuild services, inventory replenishment, and vendor/OEM support.
- Purchase parts and issue purchase orders to OEMs and contractors; meet with vendors and suppliers to coordinate purchases and learn about new technology.
- Drive company vehicles to pick up and deliver parts or travel to offsite storage.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
