Maintenance Planner
The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the short-term planning and coordination of maintenance activities to support safe, reliable, and efficient plant operations. This role serves as the primary interface between Operations, Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, and the Spares Team to ensure work is properly planned, prioritized, resourced, and executed.
The Maintenance Planner focuses on daily and weekly maintenance activities, preventive maintenance execution, work order planning, and coordination of plant resources. The role is responsible for ensuring technicians have the information, materials, permits, tools, and labor required to successfully complete scheduled work.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Develop and maintain daily and weekly maintenance schedules based on plant priorities, resource availability, and operational needs
Review, plan, and coordinate maintenance work orders, ensuring labor, materials, tools, permits, and safety requirements are identified prior to execution
Manage the preventive maintenance program, including PM scheduling, completion tracking, and continuous improvement of job plans
Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, and Storeroom teams to ensure work is prioritized and executed efficiently with minimal impact to production
Maintain work order backlog while monitoring schedule compliance, PM completion, and other maintenance KPIs to drive improved performance and reliability
Support contractor coordination and implementation of corrective actions resulting from reliability and root cause investigations
Required
3+ years of industrial maintenance, maintenance planning, reliability, operations, or related experience
Experience working within a CMMS (Limble, SAP, Maximo, Fiix, Infor, etc.)
Strong organizational and communication skills
Ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation maintenance practices
Preferred
Experience in chemical processing, manufacturing, mining, energy, or heavy industrial operations
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling certification or equivalent training
Familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) principles
Experience coordinating contractors and plant resources
Physical Requirements & Working Conditions
Frequent work in indoor office, warehouse, and operational environments.
Occasional work outdoors in varying weather conditions.
Occasional exposure to noise, dust, fumes, and other conditions commonly found in industrial and manufacturing environments.
Occasional work at heights and around operating machinery and equipment.
Occasional driving may be required to support business operations, vendor visits, training, or travel between facilities.
Ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, and perform routine physical movements as required to support daily responsibilities.
Ability to use a computer and standard office equipment, including repetitive hand motions and keyboarding.
Must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE), including safety glasses, hearing protection, steel-toed footwear, and other safety equipment as required.
Ability to safely navigate active production, warehouse, construction, and operational environments while adhering to all safety policies and procedures.