Maintenance Planner

Conagra Brands•Louisville, KY

3d•$64,000 - $95,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Maintenance Planner reports to the Maintenance Manager at Conagra Brands’ Louisville, Kentucky facility and helps keep maintenance operations running effectively. The role plans and schedules preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance, taking into account safety, quality, timing, technical documentation, staffing, parts, and work instructions. It uses equipment reliability data to recommend improvements and works with production, engineering, maintenance, and storeroom teams to ensure planned work is completed on time. The position also manages work order backlogs, contractor coordination, vendor accountability, and maintenance-process efficiency. The Maintenance Planner owns the SAP functional location structure and equipment list, maintains preventive-maintenance task lists and plans, reviews work requests, and leads weekly planning and scheduling meetings. The position tracks work-management metrics, communicates schedules and priority work, advises on planned downtime, and supports breakdown analysis and maintenance and operations meetings. It also initiates requisitions for maintenance and indirect purchases and follows corporate maintenance planning and scheduling and SAP Plant Maintenance standards. This role may require visits to manufacturing facilities. Facility conditions may include large, moving equipment, high noise levels, and varying temperatures. Physical activities may include walking, climbing stairs or ladders, kneeling, repetitive tasks requiring hand-eye coordination, and lifting or carrying materials of varying weights and sizes.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
At least 2 years of experience in a maintenance role within a manufacturing environment.
Strong knowledge of manufacturing equipment and parts.
Experience with a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

SAP Plant Maintenance experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the functional location structure and equipment list in SAP.
Build and maintain preventive-maintenance task lists and plans in SAP.
Review open work requests daily and provide feedback when requests are rejected.
Plan work orders, including safety, quality, timing, technical documents, technicians, parts, and work instructions.
Inspect work sites and collaborate with technical experts during planning.
Manage the work order backlog and set priorities.
Partner with the MRO Storeroom to ensure parts are kitted and ready for planned work.
Follow corporate MP&S systems and SAP Plant Maintenance standards.
Prepare and lead weekly planning and scheduling meetings.
Communicate schedules and high-priority work orders to Maintenance and Operations teams.
Advise on planned downtime to maximize productivity and minimize disruption.
Coordinate contractor services as needed for planned maintenance.
Track and report Work Management system metrics and recommend performance improvements.
Participate in Maintenance and Operations DDS meetings and assist with breakdown analysis when required.
Ensure compliance with corporate Maintenance Planning and Scheduling systems and SAP Plant Maintenance standards.
Initiate requisitions for maintenance and indirect purchases and support vendor accountability.