Senior Maintenance Planner

Flora Food Group • New Century, KS

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Maintenance Planner owns the maintenance planning process at Flora Food Group’s New Century, Kansas factory. The role develops and manages effective maintenance plans and schedules to maximize equipment uptime, support production goals, prevent breakdowns, and improve equipment reliability. It connects maintenance activities with operational needs and helps ensure work is prepared and executed safely and efficiently.

The planner works closely with maintenance technicians, engineers, operations staff, and other departments. Success is measured through improved schedule compliance and maintenance backlog management, stronger preventive maintenance effectiveness, fewer emergency repairs and less unplanned downtime, and control of maintenance costs through effective work-order management.

The position reports to the Maintenance Manager. The role can lead to senior maintenance planning or reliability specialist positions, and potentially to maintenance management roles.

Requirements

• Solid experience in industrial maintenance planning or scheduling.
• Strong understanding of mechanical and electrical systems.
• Ability to organize complex schedules.
• Clear communication across teams.
• A methodical, data-driven approach focused on improving maintenance effectiveness and equipment reliability.
• Ability to promote planned, preventive work and challenge reactive maintenance habits.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed job plans that define the work scope, labor, materials, and safety requirements.
• Create and manage weekly and daily maintenance schedules, balancing priorities, labor availability, and parts to optimize equipment uptime.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date work orders and preventive maintenance schedules in the CMMS system.
• Coordinate with Maintenance leadership, Operations, Engineering, and other teams to align maintenance activities with production needs and minimize downtime.
• Analyze equipment failure trends and support root cause investigations to improve preventive maintenance and reduce breakdowns.
• Drive improvements in schedule compliance, maintenance backlog management, preventive maintenance effectiveness, and reduction of emergency repairs and unplanned downtime.

What This Job Offers

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