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Maintenance Planner

Novolex
Covington, GA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/16/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/15/2026
Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries, including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex's manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates, including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum, and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands, and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations, and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Job Description

Maintenance Planner | Covington, GA | Hiring Immediately

Compensation:

  • Competitive starting pay range of $35.62-$42.28-per hour, paid weekly

Available Shift:

  • 1st shift
  • 07:00 AM-3:30 PM
  • Monday-Friday

TEXT TO APPLY NUMBER:

  • 928-668-6539 (928-NOVOLEX)

Job Overview:

The Maintenance Planner is a maintenance position that supports safe and cost effective manufacturing operations by competently scheduling, planning, and ensuring effective completion/documentation of proactive, predictive, preventive, and scheduled corrective maintenance activities on all of the plant’s significant equipment assets. Qualified candidates must possess a thorough understanding of industrial manufacturing operations, enterprise resource planning, equipment maintenance requirements, and computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

  • Always complies with Novolexes safety and environmental policies, programs, and procedures. These include but are not limited to lockout/tagout, personal protective equipment, ladder safety, electrical safety, machine shop/tool safety, and powered vehicle safety.
  • Ownership of CMMS asset hierarchy and preventive maintenance requirements. Includes all facilities, production/support equipment, and tooling.
  • Daily ownership of CMMS work order flow, scheduling, and documentation. Includes assigning work orders to available maintenance resources, reviewing completions status, and closing work orders.
  • Interact with all CMMS work requesters as required to clarify work order scope to help ensure proper and timely work order completion.
  • Work closely with plant engineering, maintenance, production, scheduling, and contractors as required to plan, schedule, and execute all maintenance work, except shift/emergency repairs, in order to maximize equipment reliability and minimize cost/waste. Includes proactive, predictive, preventive, and corrective maintenance.
  • Work closely with the storeroom to organize planned work order packages into parts kits prior to the work order’s scheduled completion date.
  • Accurately estimate times and costs of maintenance work, except shift/emergency repairs, to include labor and parts/materials costs.
  • Assist in the CMMS planning and execution of capital projects and equipment upgrades.
  • Run a weekly CMMS planned maintenance scheduling meeting to include plant engineering, maintenance, and production resources as required to ensure efficacy.
  • Utilize mean time between failure (MTBF) and root cause analysis problem solving techniques to drive continuous improvement.
  • Work in a fast paced, collaborative, and lean manufacturing environment that encourages all employee to identify and permanently eliminate waste through effective use of the Novolex Business System.

Qualifications:

  • High school graduate or equivalent required.
  • 3 years of maintenance experience working with industrial production and/or support equipment such as electromechanical drive trains, compressed air, hydraulics, vacuum, and process water systems is required.
  • Demonstrated experience working with a CMMS such as Maintenance Connection, MP2, Maximo, etc. is preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience working with an SAP is preferred.
  • Demonstrated proficiency working with MS Office applications (Excel, Outlook, Word) is required.
  • Strong written and verbal communications skills with all levels of the organization including contractors and vendors is required.
  • Proactive and self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to schedule, manage, and complete multiple work assignments and projects concurrently with minimal supervision.
  • Demonstrated proficiency reading/interpreting mechanical drawings is preferred.

Physical Requirements/ Environmental/ Working Conditions:

  • Must be able to acquire and maintain a lift truck license within 60 days of hire/promotion.
  • Able to safely lift up to 50 pounds.
  • Able to safely work in a moderately conditioned, industrial process manufacturing environment
  • Non-traditional work schedules will be based on location needs or specific situations.
  • Non-traditional work schedules will almost always be planned and coordinated in advance.
  • This position is located in a manufacturing location

Physical Requirements/ Environmental/ Working Conditions:

  • Able to safely work in a moderately conditioned, industrial process manufacturing environment
  • Must be able to frequently climb 10-40 steps and occasionally climb 5-10 ladder rungs.
  • Able to work in differing temperatures

Company Benefits

What You'll Get From Us Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program (Non-Union), and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.

Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com .

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