Maintenance Parts & Planning Lead

Maintenance Parts & Planning Lead

At Jonny Pops, our team is empowered to make an impact at work every day — from producing high-quality, innovative frozen novelties to spreading kindness one pop at a time. We look for bright and ambitious individuals who seek out challenges, thrive in fast-paced and high-growth environments, align with our core values, and get fulfillment from seeing their work transform the world around them.

Based in Elk River, MN, Jonny Pops develops, manufactures, distributes, and markets frozen novelties. Retailers from coast to coast — including Target, Costco, Kroger, Whole Foods, and thousands of regional and local grocers — make Jonny Pops part of their assortment. Growing from a dorm room start-up in 2012, Jonny Pops' mission is to make "A Better Pop for a Better World!"

We lead the frozen novelties space in innovation, use simple ingredients with no artificial dyes, and put a kind deed on every stick.

Joining Jonny Pops is an exciting opportunity to be part of a high-growth brand and have a direct impact on the company's success.

Parts Inventory & Cost Management

• Parts room ownership. Own the maintenance parts room end-to-end: organization, labeling, security, cycle counts, and min/max stocking levels for all critical spares.

• Ordering & vendor management. Source, quote, order, and expedite parts; manage vendor relationships, lead times, and pricing to keep both service and cost on target.

• Service level & cost — your two headline metrics. Own parts service level (right part, in stock, when needed) and parts/inventory cost (carrying cost, price variance, obsolete/excess stock) as your two core metrics — report both regularly.

• Continuous cost improvement. Identify and act on cost-saving opportunities: standardizing spares across assets, consolidating vendors, right-sizing stocking levels using asset criticality data.

Maintenance & Facilities Planning

• PM scheduling. Own the PM (preventive maintenance) schedule in FIIX — plan, kit (parts ready and staged), and sequence PM and facilities work so it's ready to execute the moment there's a window.

• Production planning integration. Partner directly with Production/Plant Planning to slot PM, facilities, and capital work into the production schedule with minimal impact to output — you are the connective tissue between "what maintenance needs to happen" and "what the plant is running."

• Planning cadence. Run a recurring maintenance planning cadence with the Maintenance & Reliability Manager, Production Planning, and Facilities to look ahead, resolve conflicts, and lock in the coming weeks' schedule before they become urgent.

• Backlog & attainment. Track and report PM attainment, schedule compliance, and work-order backlog; flag risks to reliability or production before they cause downtime.

FIIX System Ownership

• System administration. Serve as the business owner and administrator of the FIIX CMMS parts and planning modules: bills of materials, spare-part-to-asset linkages, min/max settings, work order templates, and reporting.

• Data integrity. Keep asset, parts, and criticality data clean and current so the rest of the maintenance team can trust what's in the system.

• System partnership & training. Partner with IT and business users to optimize and train on applicable FIIX, Net Suite, and other tools and processes, including the use of AI tools to optimize processes and advance analytics.

Business Partnership & Proactive Planning

• Cross-functional partnership. Act as a business partner to Production, Plant Planning, Facilities, and Finance/Procurement — translating parts and scheduling tradeoffs into decisions the business can act on.

• Proactive, not reactive. Bring a forward-looking planning mindset: anticipate parts needs, lead times, and schedule conflicts weeks out rather than reacting to them the day they hit.

• Continuous improvement. Lead or contribute to continuous improvement projects — kitting, criticality-based stocking strategy, vendor consolidation, planning-cadence improvements — with fact-based recommendations backed by FIIX data.

• Values-driven approach. Bring Jonny Pops' core values — Integrity,…