Maintenance Planner

Buckman International•Cadet, MO

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Plans, schedules, and provides maintenance oversight for production assets in a batch specialty chemical manufacturing environment. The role ensures that maintenance work is safely scoped, prioritized, scheduled, resourced, executed, documented, and returned to service in a manner that protects people, the environment, product quality, process safety, and asset reliability. It integrates maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS work management, contractor and vendor coordination, preventive maintenance compliance, mechanical integrity requirements, pressure vessel and fixed-equipment inspection support, and lifecycle asset management principles to minimize downtime, reduce rework and recurring failures, improve technician productivity, and support reliable plant operations.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent
7-9 years Maintenance planning and scheduling fundamentals, including job scoping, estimating, backlog management, schedule compliance, PM/PdM execution, and CMMS data quality.
Mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting knowledge for production equipment, utilities, piping, pumps, valves, relief devices, instrumentation, controls, and fixed equipment.
Maintenance and reliability concepts, including work management, equipment reliability, manufacturing process reliability, business metrics, leadership, stakeholder communication, RCA, and continuous improvement.
Strong communication, contractor/vendor coordination, time management, quote comparison, cost awareness, and ability to adjust priorities without compromising safety or compliance.
Working knowledge of SAP/Concur, CMMS/e-Maintenance, Microsoft Excel/Word/PowerPoint, Buckman administrative systems, basic data analysis for maintenance performance tracking.

Responsibilities

Integrates permit-to-work, LOTO, hot work, confined space, line break, chemical compatibility, and job safety requirements into work planning.
Verifies maintenance work packages include required procedures, parts, tools, contractor support, isolation requirements, and post-maintenance inspection/testing.
Confirms safe equipment turnover and return-to-service readiness in partnership with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and S/H/E.
Develops weekly, outage, and forward-looking schedules using CMMS data, production needs, backlog priorities, and technician/contractor capacity.
Coordinates downtime windows with Production and Scheduling to complete preventive maintenance, inspections, corrective work, and reliability tasks.
Tracks schedule attainment, PM compliance, backlog health, break-in work, and recurring delays to improve planning accuracy.
Reviews, screens, plans, prioritizes, and releases work orders in the CMMS based on safety, environmental risk, production impact, asset criticality, and customer commitments.
Defines job scope, labor estimates, parts, materials, permits, special tools, contractor needs, access requirements, QA checks, and documentation requirements.
Uses completed work history, failure notes, and technician feedback to improve job plans, PM content, bills of material, and asset records.
Aligns internal maintenance labor, I&E support, contractor resources, and vendor services to the approved schedule.
Obtains and compares quotes, evaluates cost/lead-time tradeoffs, coordinates procurement and storeroom readiness, and supports cost-conscious execution.
Provides hands-on support or coordination when resource constraints threaten safety, quality, schedule attainment, or plant continuity.
Identifies recurring failures, chronic bad actors, and repeat work orders; supports root cause analysis, FRACAS-style follow-up, and corrective/preventive action tracking.
Uses asset criticality, failure modes, operating context, and condition information to recommend PM/PdM improvements and reliability-focused job plans.
Supports lifecycle asset management by improving asset records, maintenance strategies, spare parts planning, repair history, and renewal/replacement inputs.
Plans and tracks inspections, tests, repairs, and deficiency corrections for pressure vessels, storage tanks, piping, relief devices, pumps, controls, alarms, interlocks, and emergency shutdown systems as applicable.
Coordinates with Engineering, inspectors, vendors, and contractors on pressure vessel and fixed-equipment work, including repair scope, material verification, NDE needs, pressure testing, and documentation.
Ensures work records capture inspection/test results, equipment IDs, findings, corrective actions, and evidence needed for audits, management of change, and process safety information updates.