What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Planner position at Buckman?
Description
Maintenance Planner
Buckman – Cadet, MO
Location: Cadet, MO
Language: English
Travel up to 25%
Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment.
Position Summary
Plans, schedules, and provides maintenance oversight for production assets in a batch specialty chemical manufacturing environment. The role ensures that maintenance work is safely scoped, prioritized, scheduled, resourced, executed, documented, and returned to service in a manner that protects people, the environment, product quality, process safety, and asset reliability. It integrates maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS work management, contractor and vendor coordination, preventive maintenance compliance, mechanical integrity requirements, pressure vessel and fixed-equipment inspection support, and lifecycle asset management principles to minimize downtime, reduce rework and recurring failures, improve technician productivity, and support reliable plant operations.
Key Outcomes/Responsibilities
Outcome: Safe, compliant maintenance execution and return-to-service readiness
Maintenance activities are planned and executed with no preventable safety, environmental, quality, or process-safety incidents.
Actions:
Weekly and long-range maintenance schedules are visible, realistic, and aligned with production priorities, asset criticality, and resource availability.
Actions:
Work orders are complete, prioritized, and executable, reducing rework, wasted technician time, and schedule disruption.
Actions:
Maintenance resources, contractors, parts, and outside services are coordinated to meet plant needs while controlling cost, lead time, and execution risk.
Actions:
Maintenance planning supports higher asset availability, reduced emergency work, improved MTBF, and lifecycle value realization.
Actions:
Inspection, test, repair, and documentation activities for covered equipment are planned and tracked to support OSHA PSM Mechanical Integrity, applicable API/ASME practices, and site compliance expectations.
Actions:
Maintenance Planner
Buckman – Cadet, MO
Location: Cadet, MO
Language: English
Travel up to 25%
Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment.
Position Summary
Plans, schedules, and provides maintenance oversight for production assets in a batch specialty chemical manufacturing environment. The role ensures that maintenance work is safely scoped, prioritized, scheduled, resourced, executed, documented, and returned to service in a manner that protects people, the environment, product quality, process safety, and asset reliability. It integrates maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS work management, contractor and vendor coordination, preventive maintenance compliance, mechanical integrity requirements, pressure vessel and fixed-equipment inspection support, and lifecycle asset management principles to minimize downtime, reduce rework and recurring failures, improve technician productivity, and support reliable plant operations.
Key Outcomes/Responsibilities
Outcome: Safe, compliant maintenance execution and return-to-service readiness
Maintenance activities are planned and executed with no preventable safety, environmental, quality, or process-safety incidents.
Actions:
- Integrates permit-to-work, LOTO, hot work, confined space, line break, chemical compatibility, and job safety requirements into work planning.
- Verifies maintenance work packages include required procedures, parts, tools, contractor support, isolation requirements, and post-maintenance inspection/testing.
- Confirms safe equipment turnover and return-to-service readiness in partnership with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and S/H/E.
Weekly and long-range maintenance schedules are visible, realistic, and aligned with production priorities, asset criticality, and resource availability.
Actions:
- Develops weekly, outage, and forward-looking schedules using CMMS data, production needs, backlog priorities, and technician/contractor capacity.
- Coordinates downtime windows with Production and Scheduling to complete preventive maintenance, inspections, corrective work, and reliability tasks.
- Tracks schedule attainment, PM compliance, backlog health, break-in work, and recurring delays to improve planning accuracy.
Work orders are complete, prioritized, and executable, reducing rework, wasted technician time, and schedule disruption.
Actions:
- Reviews, screens, plans, prioritizes, and releases work orders in the CMMS based on safety, environmental risk, production impact, asset criticality, and customer commitments.
- Defines job scope, labor estimates, parts, materials, permits, special tools, contractor needs, access requirements, QA checks, and documentation requirements.
- Uses completed work history, failure notes, and technician feedback to improve job plans, PM content, bills of material, and asset records.
Maintenance resources, contractors, parts, and outside services are coordinated to meet plant needs while controlling cost, lead time, and execution risk.
Actions:
- Aligns internal maintenance labor, I&E support, contractor resources, and vendor services to the approved schedule.
- Obtains and compares quotes, evaluates cost/lead-time tradeoffs, coordinates procurement and storeroom readiness, and supports cost-conscious execution.
- Provides hands-on support or coordination when resource constraints threaten safety, quality, schedule attainment, or plant continuity.
Maintenance planning supports higher asset availability, reduced emergency work, improved MTBF, and lifecycle value realization.
Actions:
- Identifies recurring failures, chronic bad actors, and repeat work orders; supports root cause analysis, FRACAS-style follow-up, and corrective/preventive action tracking.
- Uses asset criticality, failure modes, operating context, and condition information to recommend PM/PdM improvements and reliability-focused job plans.
- Supports lifecycle asset management by improving asset records, maintenance strategies, spare parts planning, repair history, and renewal/replacement inputs.
Inspection, test, repair, and documentation activities for covered equipment are planned and tracked to support OSHA PSM Mechanical Integrity, applicable API/ASME practices, and site compliance expectations.
Actions:
- Plans and tracks inspections, tests, repairs, and deficiency corrections for pressure vessels, storage tanks, piping, relief devices, pumps, controls, alarms, interlocks, and emergency shutdown systems as applicable.
- Coordinates with Engineering, inspectors, vendors, and contractors on pressure vessel and fixed-equipment work, including repair scope, material verification, NDE needs, pressure testing, and documentation.
- Ensures work records capture inspection/test results, equipment IDs, findings, corrective actions, and evidence needed for audits, management of change, and process safety information updates.
- Education Requirements: High School Diploma or equivalent
- Job Experience: 7-9 years
- Maintenance planning and scheduling fundamentals, including job scoping, estimating, backlog management, schedule compliance, PM/PdM execution, and CMMS data quality.
- Mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting knowledge for production equipment, utilities, piping, pumps, valves, relief devices, instrumentation, controls, and fixed equipment.
- Maintenance and reliability concepts, including work management, equipment reliability, manufacturing process reliability, business metrics, leadership, stakeholder communication, RCA, and continuous improvement.
- Strong communication, contractor/vendor coordination, time management, quote comparison, cost awareness, and ability to adjust priorities without compromising safety or compliance.
- Working knowledge of SAP/Concur, CMMS/e-Maintenance, Microsoft Excel/Word/PowerPoint, Buckman administrative systems, basic data analysis for maintenance performance tracking.
- Plans and Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
- Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Manages Complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
- Optimizes Work Processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement
- Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity