What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Planner position at New-Indy Containerboard?
Summary: The Maintenance Planner at New-Indy, Oxnard is responsible for the safe and efficient planning of all maintenance work activities in their areas.
Essential Functions of the Job:
- Embed safety into every job plan, identifying hazards and required permits (LOTO, confined space, hot work) and documenting safety requirements.
- Review approved work orders for completeness, return incomplete requests, and maintain a clean prioritized planning backlog.
- Perform field walk-downs to define scope, labor, materials, tools, access requirements, and operational constraints.
- Develop detailed job plans including scope, job steps, labor estimates, crafts, parts, tools, support equipment, drawings, manuals, and photos.
- Prepare complete job packages and ensure all work reaches Ready-to-Work status before scheduling.
- Provide labor estimates and craft requirements to support realistic scheduling.
- Identify stock and non-stock material requirements, create purchase requisitions, improve Bills of Material (BOMs), and partner with the storeroom to improve inventory accuracy.
- Maintain a 2–3 week planning horizon, lead weekly planning meetings, and participate in scheduling meetings.
- Collect execution feedback and continuously improve job plans, PMs, estimates, and BOMs to reduce rework and increase wrench time.
- Support reliability initiatives, RCAs, engineering documentation, vendors/OEMs, shutdown planning, and critical maintenance events.
- Maintain high-quality CMMS (Maximo) data and ensure work orders are properly updated and closed.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This job is not a supervisory position.
Qualifications:Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, industrial technology or related field, or equivalent maintenance planning experience.
- Minimum 4 years in heavy industrial maintenance.
Other skills:
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Suite with strong aptitude for Projects
- Strong understanding of computerized maintenance management systems such as Maximo.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Basic mechanical knowledge and aptitude
- Must be able to work independently
- Well-developed people practice, including strong interpersonal skills, the ability to build lasting relationships, provide recognition and demonstrate integrity and high personal standards.
- Competencies: Detail Orientated, Command Skills, Mechanical or Electrical Aptitude, Managerial Courage, Problem Solving, Organizational Skill
Physical Demands:
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to:
- Sit at a desk for long periods of time, or sit while driving a car
- Frequently use hands to type on a computer keyboard, answer the telephone and file documents
- Frequently walk within the office and occasionally the distance of a large manufacturing facility
- Occasionally reach with hands and arms above the shoulders
- Vision abilities required are close vision and depth perception
Work Environment:
- The noise level within the office is usually quiet and the temperature is regulated to be comfortable.
- Occasionally the employee is exposed to the Mill work environment which can be hot, and the noise level is loud.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud (80 dB).
- Frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions
- Occasionally exposed to loud, moving equipment
[Employees are required to wear Personal Protective Equipment [PPE] such as: hard hat, steel toed boots, gloves, safety glasses and hearing protection].
Salary : $85,000 - $120,000