Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning scheduling coordinating and improving maintenance work execution across production facilities utilities and process equipment. This role oversees preventive maintenance schedules reactive maintenance coordination spare parts planning purchasing support inventory management and communication between maintenance operations engineering vendors and contractors.

The ideal candidate has strong maintenance experience excellent organizational skills CMMS expertise and the ability to balance urgent reactive work with long-term preventive maintenance and reliability goals. This position is critical to improving schedule compliance equipment uptime maintenance efficiency spare parts availability and communication across the site.

• Develop maintain and improve preventive maintenance schedules for production facility utility and process equipment.
• Plan and schedule reactive corrective preventive and predictive maintenance work in coordination with maintenance and operations teams.
• Review incoming work requests clarify scope prioritize work and ensure work orders contain accurate information.
• Build detailed job plans including labor requirements parts tools procedures safety requirements permits drawings vendor support and estimated downtime.
• Coordinate with operations to schedule maintenance activities while minimizing impact to production.
• Manage maintenance backlog review overdue work and support prioritization of critical repairs and planned work.
• Track PM completion schedule compliance work order aging backlog downtime and other maintenance KPIs.
• Complete update and manage maintenance documentation work order records equipment history PM plans and asset data in the computerized maintenance management system CMMS.
• Support purchasing activities for maintenance parts tools services consumables and contractor support.
• Manage spare parts and inventory planning including min/max levels reorder points critical spares obsolete parts and cycle count support.
• Partner with technicians engineers operations and vendors to identify required parts and improve spare parts accuracy.
• Coordinate vendor and contractor scheduling for planned maintenance repairs inspections calibrations and project support.
• Support root cause analysis efforts by reviewing maintenance history failure trends downtime events and recurring work orders.
• Develop and improve standard work instructions job plans PM procedures maintenance checklists and planning templates.
• Participate in daily weekly and monthly maintenance planning meetings.
• Support reliability continuous improvement cost reduction and equipment initiatives.
• Communicate maintenance schedules risks constraints and resource needs to site stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Several years of experience in maintenance facilities manufacturing industrial operations maintenance planning scheduling or a related technical environment.
• Experience using computerized maintenance management systems CMMS to create schedule update and close work orders.
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance corrective maintenance reactive work and maintenance workflow processes.
• Experience coordinating maintenance work with operations technicians contractors vendors and support teams.
• Experience with spare parts inventory management purchasing or maintenance parts coordination.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Outlook Excel Word PowerPoint and Teams.
• Strong organizational prioritization communication and follow-up skills.
• Ability to read and interpret equipment manuals technical documents drawings PM procedures and maintenance records.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing or facilities environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify gaps in planning scheduling parts availability and maintenance execution.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety quality reliability and continuous improvement.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associate degree or Bachelors degree in Engineering Facilities Management Industrial Technology Business Supply Chain Operations Management or a related field.
• Certification or formal training in maintenance planning reliability supply chain inventory management project management or industrial maintenance.
• Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional CMRP certification.
• Maintenance planning scheduling or reliability certification.
• Experience with ERP systems purchasing systems procurement workflows and vendor management.
• Experience managing critical spare parts programs storeroom inventory min/max levels and cycle count processes.
• Experience in aerospace chemical processing metal finishing heat treatment industrial manufacturing or other regulated environments.
• Experience with PM optimization reliability-centered maintenance root cause analysis failure mode analysis or continuous improvement programs.
• Experience with Power BI dashboards data visualization or maintenance reporting tools.
• Experience writing detailed job plans PM procedures standard work and technical maintenance instructions.
• Experience supporting shutdown planning turnaround planning major equipment repairs or capital project maintenance coordination.
• Knowledge of safety requirements including lockout/tagout confined space hot work elevated work and contractor safety practices.
  
  

Desired Competencies

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Sense of urgency when responding to production downtime.
• Excellent communication and teamwork.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and willingness to learn new equipment.
• Commitment to safety and continuous improvement
  
  

Compensation:
Compensation for this role is $35.00 - $40.00 an hour