Maintenance Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 3 years of maintenance planning, maintenance supervision, reliability, or industrial maintenance experience.
• Experience using a CMMS.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, P&IDs, equipment manuals, and maintenance procedures.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Excellent communication and coordination abilities.
• Analytical problem-solving mindset and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Team-oriented approach focused on safety and reliability.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in pulp, paper, tissue, packaging, or other heavy manufacturing industries.
• Knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies, including vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and motor diagnostics.
• Experience with outage planning and execution.
• Familiarity with SAP, Power BI, or maintenance KPI dashboarding.

Responsibilities

• Review, prioritize, and plan maintenance work orders generated through Maximo.
• Develop job plans specifying labor requirements, estimated durations, tools, permits, and materials.
• Coordinate weekly and daily maintenance schedules with operations, maintenance supervisors, and contractors.
• Ensure planned work packages include necessary documentation, procedures, drawings, and safety requirements.
• Maintain and improve planning and scheduling compliance metrics.
• Use IBM Maximo for work order management, planning, scheduling, and reporting.
• Create and maintain equipment hierarchies, preventive maintenance tasks, job plans, and asset records.
• Review work order history and failure codes to identify recurring equipment issues.
• Monitor backlog health and ensure work orders are properly prioritized and executed.
• Support continuous improvement of Maximo data quality and maintenance workflows.
• Coordinate with storeroom personnel to ensure required parts and materials are available before scheduled work.
• Identify long-lead and critical spare-parts requirements.
• Work with procurement teams on maintenance-related purchasing needs.
• Optimize labor utilization across maintenance crafts.
• Support preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Participate in root cause analysis and failure investigations.
• Track and report schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog management, MTBF, equipment availability, and maintenance cost performance.
• Recommend improvements to maintenance strategies and asset reliability.
• Ensure planned work complies with safety standards, lockout/tagout procedures, environmental requirements, and mill policies.
• Support contractor safety and maintenance permitting processes.
• Promote a culture of safety, reliability, and continuous improvement.