Maintenance Planner

Reynolds Consumer ProductsMalvern, AR
Onsite

About The Position

Join Reynolds Consumer Products …and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and high-performance organization. If you are looking to build a strong career, we have an opportunity for you! We currently have an opportunity for a Maintenance Planner to join our team located in Hot Springs, AR.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or related technical discipline preferred. Equivalent combination of education and manufacturing maintenance experience may be considered.
  • 5+ years of maintenance, reliability, planning, scheduling, engineering, or supervisory experience within a manufacturing environment.
  • Experience in a union manufacturing environment preferred.
  • Experience utilizing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
  • Experience developing maintenance job plans, outage plans, work packages, and maintenance procedures.
  • Strong knowledge of Work Execution Management (WEM) processes and maintenance best practices.
  • Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
  • Knowledge of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
  • Strong understanding of maintenance materials management, inventory control, and kitting processes.
  • Experience utilizing maintenance KPIs including schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog health, equipment availability, and maintenance productivity.
  • Proficiency with CMMS systems, Microsoft Office applications, and maintenance reporting tools.
  • Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, Purchasing, and Contractor personnel.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

  • Intellectual Curiosity: Do you have an inquisitive nature?
  • Problem Solving: Do you have a knack for tackling issues head-on?
  • Entrepreneurship: Do you enjoy taking ownership of your work?
  • Customer Centricity: Do you always act in the best interests of the customer, putting their needs first?
  • Growth Mindset: Do you focus on progress rather than perfection?
  • Continuous Improvement: Are you never satisfied with the status quo?

Responsibilities

  • Develop detailed maintenance job plans for corrective, preventive, predictive, condition-based, and project maintenance activities.
  • Plan work based on priorities established by the Maintenance Area Supervisor and Area Team.
  • Own release-to-schedule readiness for all planned maintenance work orders.
  • Develop complete work packages including labor estimates, craft requirements, tools, materials, permits, safety requirements, procedures, and contractor support requirements.
  • Utilize craft knowledge, engineering resources, OEM documentation, equipment history, and field inspections to develop accurate and effective maintenance job plans.
  • Maintain strong knowledge of systems, equipment, and manufacturing processes within assigned areas of responsibility.
  • Support outage planning by defining work scope, sequencing activities, identifying constraints, and assisting in critical path planning.
  • Review the maintenance backlog daily to ensure work orders are accurately defined, prioritized, and maintained within the CMMS.
  • Verify work requests contain appropriate descriptions, asset assignments, priorities, and scope definitions.
  • Remove duplicate work orders and improve overall backlog quality.
  • Generate work requests for equipment requiring corrective maintenance when identified during routine activities.
  • Maintain a minimum of two weeks of fully planned, ready-to-schedule, non-PM backlog within assigned areas.
  • Maintain equipment history, job plans, and planning documentation within the CMMS.
  • Support continuous improvement of CMMS data quality and work management processes.
  • Support reliability improvement initiatives through development and optimization of preventive maintenance (PM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), and predictive maintenance programs.
  • Optimize PM job plans utilizing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles and criticality-based decision making.
  • Develop standard job plans, PM procedures, CBM tasks, standard work instructions, and maintenance documentation.
  • Analyze condition monitoring and predictive maintenance reports and generate follow-up work orders as required.
  • Track CBM program effectiveness and support efforts to reduce equipment failures, downtime, and maintenance costs.
  • Assist with asset reliability improvement projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Ensure frequently used spare parts are established and maintained within the storeroom inventory.
  • Identify and coordinate procurement of required non-stock materials and services for planned work.
  • Develop and stage maintenance kits for work where material readiness is critical to execution success.
  • Verify kit completeness and readiness before scheduled maintenance activities and outages.
  • Ensure all required materials, special tools, permits, drawings, procedures, and documentation are available before work is released for scheduling.
  • Maintain organized and efficient kitting and staging areas that support maintenance execution efficiency.
  • Participate in Gemba walks and readiness reviews for critical maintenance activities.
  • Participate in pre-job walkthroughs to validate scope, safety requirements, access requirements, labor estimates, and material readiness.
  • Review published schedules and verify planned work has appropriate labor and resource allocation.
  • Collaborate with Maintenance Supervisors, Schedulers, Operations, Engineering, and Reliability personnel to ensure successful execution of scheduled work.
  • Provide planning support for outages, shutdowns, and major maintenance activities.
  • Support schedule compliance initiatives by identifying constraints and readiness gaps before execution.
  • Provide planning and technical support during execution of critical maintenance activities.
  • Assist maintenance teams in resolving work execution barriers and readiness issues.
  • Perform job plan audits during maintenance execution to verify accuracy of scope, procedures, labor estimates, materials, and safety requirements.
  • Coordinate contractor activities associated with planned maintenance work as assigned.
  • Verify work quality supports safe equipment operation and long-term asset reliability.
  • Support equipment startup and return-to-service activities following planned outages and major maintenance events.
  • Ensure work orders overseen by the planner are properly finalized and closed in accordance with plant work management standards.
  • Capture execution feedback and incorporate improvements into future job plans and maintenance procedures.
  • Update job plans, bills of materials, labor estimates, and maintenance documentation based on actual execution results.
  • Update shift narratives, maintenance reports, and outage documentation as required.
  • Participate in root cause analyses (RCA), corrective action development, and reliability investigations.
  • Develop, maintain, and improve standard operating procedures, one-point lessons, and maintenance best practices.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on maintenance productivity, schedule compliance, reliability, and equipment availability.
  • Ensure all planned work complies with Reynolds safety standards, environmental requirements, regulatory requirements, and company policies.
  • Participate in and support daily, weekly, outage, and area team meetings.
  • Support emergency breakdown events after stabilization by providing equipment knowledge, job plans, repair procedures, material identification, and technical planning assistance.
  • Promote a culture of safety, accountability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
  • Serve as backup for WEM Supervisors and other maintenance leadership positions as assigned.
  • Support contractor safety and compliance requirements during maintenance activities.

Benefits

  • competitive salaries and benefits
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