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 owns 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 work processes, inventory, purchasing activities, asset information, and performance data. The position develops and maintains a backlog of fully planned work, prepares work packages with appropriate resources and safety requirements, and coordinates weekly schedules and major maintenance events. It also manages storeroom operations, inventory accuracy, spare parts, vendor relationships, CMMS and SAP data integrity, and reporting. The role 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 meetings with Operations and Maintenance.
Review, prioritize, and plan preventive, predictive, corrective, and improvement work orders in MaintainX.
Develop detailed job plans covering labor, durations, skills and crafts, parts, tools, permits, safety requirements, Lockout/Tagout, and contractor needs.
Maintain a backlog of approved, fully planned, ready-to-execute work orders and ensure work is properly scoped and resourced.
Monitor schedule compliance and work-order completion, identify resource constraints, recommend schedule changes, and support emergency work prioritization.
Keep maintenance documentation and job plans current and effective.
Lead planning and preparation for plant outages, shutdowns, and major maintenance events, including scope documents, schedules, labor, materials, contractors, and support services.
Track outage progress, communicate schedule updates, and conduct post-outage reviews to document lessons learned.
Manage daily maintenance storeroom operations and identify, stock, and regularly review critical spare parts.
Maintain inventory levels that support reliability while minimizing carrying costs; conduct cycle counts and annual physical inventories and improve inventory accuracy.
Identify and eliminate obsolete, damaged, or excess inventory; establish equipment Bills of Materials and appropriate min/max inventory levels.
Coordinate replenishment and inventory optimization, manage vendor relationships, and expedite 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 and material records, support requisitions and purchase orders, maintain material master and storeroom records, and support supplier management.
Maintain data integrity and alignment between MaintainX and SAP where applicable.
Promote company safety standards and ensure planned work addresses safety precautions, regulatory requirements, permits, isolation plans, job hazards, and Lockout/Tagout.
Participate in safety observations, audits, and investigations as required and support environmental, regulatory, and company compliance initiatives.
Ensure contractors understand and comply with site safety requirements.
Build working relationships with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Procurement, vendors, contractors, and service providers.
Communicate maintenance priorities, schedule changes, material availability, and outage plans; support supervisors and technicians with complete, executable work packages.
Foster teamwork, accountability, and operational excellence and serve as a resource for maintenance planning and materials management practices.