Maintenance Planner

Winpak Careers • Sauk Village, IL

23h • Onsite

About The Position

Winpak Portion Packaging is seeking a Maintenance Planner to join our Maintenance team based in Sauk Village, Illinois. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented maintenance professional who enjoys building structure, improving reliability, and keeping operations running efficiently. In this position, you will play a key role in planning and coordinating maintenance work, supporting preventive maintenance efforts, and helping the team maximize equipment uptime, labor efficiency, and parts availability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in maintenance planning, maintenance coordination, or a similar role in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience using a computerized maintenance management system.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to manage priorities, solve problems, and meet deadlines.
• Effective communication and coordination skills across teams.
• Ability to analyze maintenance issues and support continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience supporting preventive maintenance and reliability programs in manufacturing.
• Experience maintaining equipment records, parts inventory, and technical documentation.
• Familiarity with maintenance reporting and performance metrics.
• Knowledge of food safety, sanitation, and quality standards in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Review maintenance work orders and ensure all relevant details are captured before work is scheduled.
• Plan maintenance jobs by coordinating labor, materials, parts, and equipment access to reduce delays and improve execution.
• Manage work orders within the maintenance management system, including entry, tracking, and closure.
• Prepare and distribute weekly maintenance schedules and help facilitate weekly scheduling meetings.
• Monitor completed work orders and compare actual results against planned work to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain equipment history, parts catalogs, and storeroom minimum and maximum inventory levels.
• Support the integrity and effectiveness of the preventive maintenance program, including reviewing frequencies and task lists.
• Track maintenance labor and material usage, identify trends, and provide reports and key performance indicators to leadership.
• Partner closely with operations, project teams, and maintenance leadership to support outages, repairs, contractor activity, and continuous improvement.
• Assist with special maintenance programs, technical documentation, purchasing coverage, and time reporting support as needed.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision & prescription coverage
• Travel coverage
• Disability coverage
• Voluntary life insurance
• Life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Tuition assistance program
• Retirement savings plans
• A comprehensive employee and family assistance program which includes short term counselling, wellbeing coaching, financial and legal consultations services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees