Facility Maintenance Planner & Scheduler - Mankato, MN

Facility Maintenance Planner & Scheduler Mankato MN

Position Summary:
The Maintenance Planner is a critical role responsible for planning coordinating and optimizing all maintenance work activities at the ADM Mankato Complex. This includes developing detailed work plans standardizing the work order system and leading plantwide shutdowns yearly PMs Monthly Weekly Daily. The planner works closely with maintenance teams leaders contractors (pipefitters electricians millwrights) operations and engineering to ensure safe efficient and timely completion of maintenance tasks across the Crush Refinery and Cogeneration (Cogen) areas.

Key Responsibilities:
Work Planning & Scheduling

• Develop prioritize and schedule preventive corrective and predictive maintenance work orders.
• Plan and coordinate jobs for multitrade teams including pipefitters electricians and millwrights ensuring labor tools permits and materials are in place before execution.
• Ensure all work plans include accurate task durations safety protocols drawings procedures and QA/QC steps.
• Create detailed job plans including labor requirements parts tools permits and safety procedures.
• Develop and maintain Gantt charts and weekly maintenance schedules using CMMS or planning software (e.g. SAP Maximo MS Project).
• Plan and schedule plantwide shutdowns and turnarounds in coordination with operations and engineering.
• Maintain and continuously improve job plan libraries for repetitive work.
• Coordinate work with maintenance technicians electricians pipefitters engineers and contractors.
• Communicate planned work clearly with affected departments to minimize operational impact.
• Participate in daily maintenance and production meetings to align priorities and update status.

Shutdown & Turnaround Planning

• Lead the planning and coordination of major plant shutdowns for the Crush Refinery and Cogen units.
• Develop shutdown schedules detailed scopes of work Gantt charts and manpower loading plans.
• Collaborate with operations engineering contractors and vendors to ensure timely and safe shutdown execution.
• Track progress during outages address deviations and lead postshutdown review for continuous improvement.

Work Order System & Standardization

• Champion the standardization of the work order process within the CMMS system (e.g. SAP Maximo).
• Ensure work orders are clearly defined with appropriate asset codes failure codes priority levels and completion notes.
• Develop planning KPIs such as schedule compliance PM completion rate backlog and planning accuracy.
• Train maintenance staff and contractors on work order best practices and CMMS usage.

Materials & Contractor Coordination

• Coordinate with the storeroom/warehouse supervisor to ensure availability of required parts tools and safety equipment for all planned work.
• Interface with purchasing and vendors for specialty materials and outside service contractors.
• Ensure contractors are properly onboarded qualified and provided with clear scopes and expectations for planned work.

Safety Compliance & Documentation

• Ensure all planned work follows plant safety procedures including LOTO confined space entry and hot work.
• Incorporate risk assessments and job safety analyses (JSAs) into all major job plans.
• Ensure compliance with food safety environmental and regulatory standards applicable to plant operations.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Analyze equipment history and maintenance trends to recommend improvements.
• Track and report on maintenance KPIs including schedule compliance downtime and work order backlog.
• Assist with reliability initiatives such as RCM and root cause analysis.

Qualifications:
Education & Experience

• Technical diploma or degree in Mechanical Electrical or Industrial Maintenance preferred.
• Minimum 510 years of maintenance planning experience in an industrial manufacturing setting.
• Prior experience in agriprocessing food manufacturing or energy systems (boilers/turbines) is highly desirable.
• Required Handson experience with equipment used in soy oilseed crushing refining and cogeneration systems.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong working knowledge of maintenance best practices reliability concepts and CMMS systems (e.g. SAP PM Maximo).
• Proficiency in reading technical drawings P&IDs and OEM manuals.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead largescale coordination efforts during plant outages.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills to collaborate with operations engineering and external vendors.
• Required proficient skills in using Maximo Excel Gantt Chatt development other planning softwares

Working Conditions:

• Mix of office and field environment 50%50%; must be able to access all areas of the plant may require work on ladders scaffolding or other work at heights or in confined spaces.
• Requires walking climbing and inspection in industrial settings during maintenance and shutdowns.
• Occasional extended hours or weekend work may be required during shutdowns or emergency repairs.

Before applying for an exempt nonexempt or hourly job opportunity you are expected toinitiate a discussion and share your intentions with your supervisor. * If youve been in your current position for more than 18 months supervisor approval is not required. * If youve been in your current position for less than 18 months verbal supervisor approval is required.
Hiring Manager Edwin Maleche
Recruiter Carol Jones



About ADM

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Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including market location jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Hourly and salaried nonexempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours.

If hired employees will be in an atwill position and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

The pay range for this position is expected to be between: