Maintenance Planner

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for improving maintenance workforce productivity, equipment reliability, and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through effective maintenance planning, scheduling, coordination, and follow-up. This role develops detailed job plans, coordinates labor, materials, parts, tools, equipment access, safety requirements, and planned downtime, and serves as a key liaison between Maintenance, Operations, Purchasing/Stores, and other departments to ensure maintenance activities are completed safely, efficiently, and cost effectively in a high-speed manufacturing environment.

Report to:

Maintenance Supervisor

Qualifications, Requirements, & Responsibilities:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between Maintenance, Operations, and other supported departments to ensure timely, efficient, and high-quality maintenance services.
• Develop and maintain short-term and long-term maintenance plans that balance safety, equipment reliability, production needs, maintenance backlog, and available labor and resources.
• Prepare detailed job plans for maintenance work, including scope of work, estimated labor hours, required skills, materials, parts, tools, equipment, drawings, permits, lockout/tagout considerations, PPE, and safety precautions.
• Build, maintain, and communicate weekly and daily maintenance schedules in coordination with Maintenance supervision, Operations, and other affected departments.
• Coordinate planned downtime, shutdowns, outages, and project-related maintenance work to minimize disruption to production.
• Plan and coordinate maintenance work orders, repairs, inspections, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and corrective maintenance activities for plant equipment and facilities.
• Maintainaccuratemaintenance documentation, including work orders, preventive maintenance schedules,parts information, and equipment records within the CMMS systems.
• Coordinate with purchasing, warehouse, and storeroom personnel to verify parts availability, identify critical spares, stage or kit parts for planned work, and reduce delays caused by missing materials.
• Determine and organize technical documentation necessary to support maintenance personnel.
• Monitor production and operational reports toidentifyequipment reliability issues and resolve maintenance-related deficiencies.
• Use equipment history, downtime data, technician feedback, and production reports to identify recurring failures and support root cause analysis, corrective actions, and improvements to preventive maintenance plans.
• Coordinate labor, materials, tools, and equipment to maximize maintenance efficiency and minimize production downtime.
• Support preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance initiatives that improve equipment reliability and plant performance.
• Track, monitor, and report maintenance performance measures such as PM compliance, schedule compliance, backlog aging, open and past-due work orders, work order accuracy, parts availability, downtime trends, and labor utilization.
• Participate in daily and weekly planning meetings with Maintenance, Operations, Purchasing/Stores, and other stakeholders to align priorities, review backlog, confirm schedules, and resolve constraints.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and all applicable EPA, OSHA, and regulatory requirements.
• Assist with audits, inspections, and maintenance reporting as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum of five years of maintenance, industrial mechanic, or related manufacturing experience.
• Experience with preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance programs.
• Experience troubleshooting andmaintaininghigh-speed…