Maintenance Planner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required.
• 3+ years of experience in maintenance planning, maintenance coordination, reliability, or maintenance support within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, Word, and Outlook, for planning, tracking, and reporting.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelors or Associates Degree
• 5+ years of Maintenance experience within food manufacturing
• Advanced experience using SAP PM, including notification review, work order planning, scheduling, backlog management, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a structured and reliable system for tracking all maintenance work orders, ensuring clear visibility to backlog, priorities, aging, and execution status.
• Own the full work order lifecycle within SAP, including creation, planning, scheduling, execution tracking, and closure.
• Review, evaluate, and prioritize incoming maintenance requests, converting notifications into fully planned work orders with defined scope, labor estimates, material requirements, and safety considerations.
• Investigate maintenance requests to determine required manpower, skill sets, tools, spare parts, and estimated duration to complete work effectively and safely.
• Create, issue, and schedule all preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, inspections, and other pre‑planned maintenance activities.
• Develop, review, and continuously improve preventive maintenance procedures to ensure effectiveness, reduce equipment failures, and eliminate unnecessary or low‑value tasks.
• Partner closely with Maintenance Supervisors, Technicians, and Operations to build and maintain a proactive weekly maintenance schedule aligned with production and business needs.
• Ensure all non‑emergency maintenance work is properly planned and scheduled in advance to support efficient labor utilization and minimize disruption to operations.
• Monitor, manage, and report maintenance backlog, ensuring work is appropriately prioritized, aged, and prevented from becoming stagnant or unmanaged.
• Confirm all materials, spare parts, and special tools are identified, sourced, staged, and available prior to scheduling work to avoid execution delays.
• Maintain working knowledge of purchase order and requisition processes; initiate, track, and follow up on purchase requests as required.
• Collaborate with the storeroom to monitor spare parts inventory levels, identify critical components, and reduce equipment downtime risk due to material shortages.
• Leverage SAP and CMMS data to identify trends, recurring failures, and systemic issues; escalate concerns and recommend corrective or long‑term solutions for chronic equipment problems.
• Drive planning discipline by ensuring reactive and break‑in work is minimized and planning standards are consistently followed.
• Coordinate maintenance work across all sources, including Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and external vendors, to ensure alignment and efficiency.
• Recommend cost‑effective maintenance solutions that optimize internal labor and minimize external spend when appropriate.
• Coordinate scope definition, scheduling, execution, and follow‑up with external vendors and contractors as required.
• Support the planning and execution of plant shutdowns, turnarounds, and major maintenance events.
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with safety, food safety, quality, GMP, OSHA, and regulatory requirements.
• Promote and reinforce the use of proper PPE, safe work practices, and hazard awareness at all times.
• Promptly report equipment issues, safety concerns, quality risks, and incidents in accordance with plant procedures.
• Maintain a high level of organization, accuracy, and attention to detail in all planning activities, documentation, and SAP entries.
• Work independently while maintaining effective communication, alignment, and collaboration with cross‑functional partners.
• Participate in safety initiatives, continuous improvement efforts, and plant‑driven programs as assigned.
• Maintain flexibility to support overtime, outage support, or off‑shift planning needs when required.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• short and long-term disability
• AD&D
• life insurance (for individual, families, and domestic partners)
• matching 401(k) plan
• unlimited sick time
• paid time off
• holiday pay
• free access to the fitness center (at WHQ)
• on-site day care (operated by Bright Horizons)
• company store
• Campbell’s Cares program matches employee donations and/or volunteer activity up to $1,500 annually
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• competitive health
• dental
• 401k
• wellness benefits beginning on the first day of employment