Maintenance Planner & Storeroom Manager

Magnera Corporation•Fort Smith, AR

About The Position

The Maintenance Planner & Storeroom Manager is a key member of the Maintenance & Engineering team and leads the site’s maintenance planning, scheduling, and materials management processes. The role supports safe, efficient, and reliable maintenance execution by coordinating labor, materials, contractor resources, documentation, and schedules across Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, and external partners. It uses MaintainX CMMS and SAP ERP to manage maintenance work processes, inventory, purchasing activities, asset information, and maintenance performance data. The role owns the site’s maintenance planning, scheduling, and materials management processes, ensuring work is scoped, planned, scheduled, and supported with the resources needed before execution. It also leads preparation for annual outages, shutdowns, and major maintenance events; manages daily storeroom operations and spare parts; administers maintenance work management data and processes in MaintainX and SAP; and promotes safety, teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of industrial maintenance experience.
Minimum 3 years of maintenance planning, scheduling, outage coordination, or maintenance leadership experience.
Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and industrial maintenance practices.
Experience developing detailed maintenance job plans and coordinating maintenance resources.
Experience planning and executing maintenance outages, shutdowns, and major equipment repairs.
Demonstrated experience managing maintenance storerooms, inventory control systems, and spare parts programs.
Advanced proficiency using CMMS software.
Working proficiency in SAP, including inventory management, purchasing processes, material master maintenance, and storeroom transactions.
Strong organizational, planning, and project coordination skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

Nice To Haves

MaintainX experience.
Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Maintenance, Industrial Technology, Engineering Technology, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
Experience in paper converting, tissue manufacturing, consumer products manufacturing, or other continuous-process industries.
Experience managing contractors during outages and maintenance projects.
Experience supporting capital projects and equipment installations.

Responsibilities

Own and facilitate the site’s weekly maintenance planning and scheduling process, including regular planning and scheduling meetings.
Develop and maintain a backlog of approved, fully planned, ready-to-execute maintenance work orders.
Develop detailed job plans for preventive, predictive, corrective, and improvement work, specifying labor, duration, skills, parts, tools, safety requirements, permits, lockout/tagout requirements, and contractor needs.
Review, prioritize, and plan work orders in MaintainX; coordinate schedules with Operations and Maintenance leadership; monitor schedule compliance and completion performance; and recommend adjustments for resource constraints.
Keep maintenance documentation and job plans current, support emergency-work prioritization, and ensure work orders are properly scoped and resourced.
Lead planning and preparation for plant outages, shutdowns, and major maintenance events, including scopes, schedules, labor and material plans, contractor resources, work packages, and progress updates.
Conduct post-outage reviews and document lessons learned.
Manage daily maintenance storeroom operations; identify and review critical spare parts; maintain appropriate inventory and min/max levels; conduct cycle counts and annual physical inventories; and improve inventory accuracy.
Ensure maintenance work orders are kitted and materials are available before scheduled execution whenever practical; eliminate obsolete, damaged, or excess inventory; and maintain accurate equipment Bills of Materials.
Coordinate replenishment, inventory optimization, vendor relationships, and expediting of critical parts and services.
Administer MaintainX maintenance work management processes and maintain accurate asset, equipment, inventory, work-order, preventive maintenance, and equipment-history data.
Generate maintenance reports and metrics and monitor work-order quality and planning effectiveness.
Manage SAP inventory transactions, material records, material master data, storeroom records, and support purchasing requisitions and purchase orders.
Support vendor and supplier management and improve data integrity and alignment between MaintainX and SAP where applicable.
Promote company safety standards and ensure planned work identifies required precautions, permits, isolation plans, lockout/tagout requirements, job hazards, and regulatory requirements.
Participate in safety observations, audits, and investigations as required; support environmental, regulatory, and company compliance initiatives; and ensure contractors understand and follow site safety requirements.
Build effective working relationships and communicate maintenance priorities, schedule changes, material availability, and outage plans to stakeholders.
Support supervisors and technicians by ensuring work packages are complete and executable, and foster teamwork, accountability, and operational excellence.