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Maintenance Planner

Smurfit Westrock
West Chester, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 10/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/22/2026
Description & Requirements

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

Job title: Maintenance Planner / Scheduler

Reports To: Maintenance Manager

Department: Maintenance

Summary

The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler is responsible for managing the efficient and effective use of personnel, materials, and machine downtime to maintain production equipment availability and performance at satisfactory levels. The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler executes the critical planning, scheduling, coordinating, and reporting of preventative maintenance and repair work orders to ensure operational effectiveness.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities Include The Following

  • Maintain backlog of work orders and move work orders to the ready-to-schedule phase, and review technician feedback upon work completion.
  • Manage work order priority, develop job plans, define parts and materials and engage the proper resources to develop a safe, effective and efficient work control plan.
  • Coordinate planning activities such as scope identification and control, scheduling, risk assessments, execution and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Partner with Operations and Maintenance lead to ensure that plans and schedules are aligned based on the availability of equipment to support the plant operations.
  • Incorporate safety requirements and JHA’s (Job Hazard Analysis) for all work orders and jobs to support and drive safe work behaviors.
  • Oversee the end-to-end planning and execution of work orders and resolve any work order issues.
  • Maintain real-time equipment bill of materials in J.D. Edwards CMMS software, including updating parts that have changed and new equipment.
  • Schedule preventive maintenance on all equipment in the plant and surrounding areas and maintain accurate records of work completed in J.D. Edwards CMMS software
  • Compile work order packets incorporating work documentation from technicians to analyze the number of man-hours and resources needed to close out the work order.
  • Utilize J.D. Edwards CMMS to lead technicians in reliability efforts of precision, predictive, and preventive maintenance for annual budget planning.
  • Work cross-divisionally with operations and maintenance to enable efficiency and consistency for plant operations.
  • Facilitate daily core team meetings to review planned work orders, prioritize work order viability, and schedule the maintenance orders to reduce any machinery downtime.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
  • Overtime is required.

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

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