Maintenance Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma.
• 2+ years of experience in a manufacturing technical field.
• Demonstrated leadership experience and success working in a highly collaborative environment.
• Experience driving results through process discipline and teamwork.
• Proven success reducing losses and improving performance in a manufacturing setting.
• Demonstrated technical capability and knowledge of unit operations and machinery within at least one production platform.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across maintenance, operations, engineering, quality, safety, and other plant teams.
• Foundational knowledge of maintenance data systems and decision-making tools, such as Maximo or SAP.
• Practical knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling and CMMS use.
• Broad knowledge of materials, fabrication methods, engineering fundamentals, fastening methods, and lubrication principles.
• Craft worker experience or very strong knowledge of craft duties, capabilities, and skill levels.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical, science, engineering, or mechatronics-related field.
• 4+ years of experience in a manufacturing technical field.
• Professional certifications such as CMRP or MLTI.

Responsibilities

• Lead food and human safety through strong safety leadership and disciplined maintenance practices.
• Support a culture that reduces risk by helping drive regular, documented equipment safety assessments, including initial assessments during startup and qualification phases and annual reviews within the planned maintenance process.
• Help cultivate a food safety culture committed to producing safe food in compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Lead implementation of asset care strategies across the platform, with a focus on critical A and B assets, to improve reliability, cost performance, and schedule attainment.
• Communicate clearly with platform teams and plant leaders about the tradeoffs between performance, cost, and asset health, including maintenance spending trends and forecasts by work type and category.
• Serve as the early management point person for asset care strategies and Maximo setup tied to new capital projects.
• Own CMMS data accuracy, Maximo standards, and effective system usage for the team.
• Use advanced data analysis to support problem solving, identify emerging issues, and proactively improve maintenance performance.
• Maintain technical documentation for the team.
• Incorporate asset care strategies and maintenance planning and scheduling into platform improvement plans and deployment efforts.
• Participate in weekly, monthly, and quarterly direction-setting routines and help advance daily plans when needed.
• Lead the development, implementation, training, and execution of maintenance planning and scheduling processes.
• Independently create high-quality preventive maintenance tasks and job plans with clearly documented labor, materials, tools, and work instructions.
• Build work schedules that balance equipment needs, labor availability, and plant priorities.
• Partner with production planning and platform teams to optimize equipment access and labor utilization.
• Create, lead, and measure an effective work prioritization process with input from operations, engineering, quality, safety, and other plant stakeholders.
• Support implementation of maintenance foundational systems such as LMS, shutdown planning, emergency response-related maintenance processes, and predictive maintenance in alignment with site strategy.
• Partner with maintenance leadership on asset care linkages to defect handling and breakdown elimination.
• Mentor others and help build capability in maintenance processes, standards, and best practices.
• Continue building technical knowledge of equipment, systems, and plant operations so you can evaluate incoming work and develop high-quality work plans.
• Communicate scope of work clearly through both written documentation and verbal direction.

Benefits

• health benefits
• retirement and financial wellbeing
• time off programs
• wellbeing support and perks
• annual incentive program