Mechanical/E&I Planner, Lime Kiln

ND Paper • Rumford, ME

6d • $85,000 - $115,000

About The Position

The Mechanical/E&I Planner – Utilities is responsible for planning, coordinating, and preparing electrical and instrumentation maintenance work that supports the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of utility systems. The role develops detailed job plans, coordinates resources, manages maintenance work orders, and supports preventive, predictive, corrective, and outage maintenance activities. The planner works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Purchasing, and contractors to ensure work is properly scoped, planned, ready to schedule, and executed.

Requirements

• Electrical, instrumentation, industrial maintenance, or related technical experience is preferred.
• Journeyman electrician or instrumentation background is preferred.
• Experience with PLCs, DCS, VFDs, process controls, and industrial networks is preferred.
• Maintenance planning or scheduling experience is preferred.
• Experience using CMMS systems, including SAP, is preferred.
• Ability to read electrical drawings, schematics, P&IDs, and equipment documentation is preferred.
• Strong organizational and communication skills are preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Associate degree in Electrical Technology, Instrumentation, or a related field.
• Electrical, instrumentation, industrial maintenance, or related technical experience.
• Journeyman electrician or instrumentation background.
• Experience with PLCs, DCS, VFDs, process controls, and industrial networks.
• Maintenance planning or scheduling experience.
• Experience using CMMS systems, including SAP.
• Ability to read electrical drawings, schematics, P&IDs, and equipment documentation.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed work packages for electrical and instrumentation maintenance activities.
• Review work requests and determine scope, labor, materials, tools, permits, and safety requirements.
• Create and maintain job plans in SAP CMMS.
• Prioritize work based on equipment criticality, safety impact, production requirements, and available resources.
• Manage the E&I maintenance backlog and ensure work orders are planned and ready for execution.
• Include appropriate safety requirements in work plans; support lockout/tagout, permitting, and hazard identification processes.
• Promote safe work practices and compliance with company policies, governmental regulations, and NFPA 70E; participate in safety improvement initiatives.
• Identify required parts, materials, and special tools; develop labor and work-duration estimates.
• Coordinate procurement of materials and outside services.
• Enter new parts into SAP and build and maintain equipment Bills of Materials.
• Ensure drawings, manuals, procedures, and technical documentation are available.
• Support outage planning, contractor coordination, and execution readiness.
• Plan maintenance activities for utility equipment, including electrical distribution systems, motors and drives, MCCs and control panels, PLC/DCS systems, instrumentation and control loops, boilers, steam systems, water and wastewater systems, air systems, fire alarm systems, and supporting utility department equipment.
• Support troubleshooting by ensuring accurate equipment history and documentation; assist with reliability improvement initiatives and root cause analysis.
• Maintain accurate equipment records and maintenance history; create and update preventive maintenance tasks.
• Track completion of planned work and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs, including backlog aging, equipment reliability trends, and planning readiness/completion.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus voluntary accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness insurance for employees and their families.
• Life insurance, disability insurance, and business travel accident insurance.
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Paid holidays, personal days, and vacation days.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match and annual fixed contribution.
• Wellness programs with incentives and an on-site clinic available at the Rumford and Biron locations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed