Maintenance Scheduler Planner

The Maintenance Planner plays a critical role in driving maintenance effectiveness, asset reliability, and operational efficiency by coordinating and planning maintenance activities within a manufacturing environment. This individual is responsible for developing detailed maintenance plans, ensuring resource availability, supporting preventive maintenance initiatives, and coordinating outage and shutdown activities to maximize equipment uptime and productivity.

• Develop comprehensive maintenance job plans including work scope, labor requirements, materials, tools, safety procedures, permits, and estimated costs.
• Create detailed work packages that enable maintenance personnel to execute tasks efficiently, safely, and with minimal delays.
• Coordinate the procurement, availability, staging, and tracking of materials, parts, equipment, and external resources required for planned maintenance activities.
• Prepare purchase requisitions and collaborate with purchasing and storeroom teams to ensure timely availability of critical components.
• Maintain equipment Bills of Materials (BOMs), spare parts inventories, and asset-related documentation within the CMMS system.
• Manage the maintenance planning process by converting work requests into fully planned and schedule-ready work orders.
• Develop, update, and optimize preventive maintenance (PM) procedures and job plans to enhance equipment reliability and performance.
• Partner with maintenance, operations, and reliability teams to prioritize work, manage backlog, and build weekly maintenance schedules.
• Lead planning efforts for outages, shutdowns, and turnaround events, including manpower forecasting, contractor coordination, and schedule development.
• Support outage execution through coordination of internal teams and external contractors to ensure projects are completed safely and on schedule.
• Identify critical-path activities and integrate maintenance work into production schedules to minimize downtime and operational impact.
• Review contractor scopes of work, facilitate site visits, and support the bidding process for outsourced maintenance projects.
• Monitor labor utilization, material consumption, and project costs to support budget management and cost control initiatives.
• Promote compliance with all safety, environmental, and company standards during planning and execution activities.
• Participate in planning meetings and cross-functional discussions to align maintenance priorities with operational objectives.
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or a related technical discipline preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
• Minimum 5 years of maintenance planning, maintenance supervision, reliability, engineering, or industrial maintenance experience within a manufacturing or heavy industrial environment.
• Strong understanding of mechanical and electrical maintenance practices, preventive maintenance methodologies, and equipment reliability principles.
• Experience utilizing CMMS platforms such as JD Edwards, SAP, Maximo, or similar maintenance management systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications; project management software experience is beneficial.
• Excellent organizational, communication, problem-solving, and coordination skills.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and collaborate across maintenance, operations, engineering, and contractor teams.
  
  

• Experience within paper, packaging, chemical, metals, food manufacturing, or other process-driven industrial environments.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance planning, outage management, turnaround execution, and contractor oversight.
• Familiarity with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), predictive maintenance (PdM), and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to improve maintenance efficiency, reduce downtime, and support overall plant performance.