Maintenance Planner

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Maintenance Planner!

At Florida’s Natural, goodness runs through our veins. We’re a citrus co-op with roots deep in the Florida soil. We care for our trees, our fruit, our land, and each other. That goodness is contagious. It’s what makes coworkers friends and the work fruitful. Pun intended. We’re on a mission to spread more good. Join us!

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the maintenance organization by planning, scheduling, kitting and coordinating preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. This position ensures maintenance work is properly scoped, resourced, prioritized, and scheduled to minimize equipment downtime. They will drive safe, reliable beverage manufacturing along with keeping the facility and utility systems functioning efficiently and correctly.

• Develop detailed job plans for preventive, predictive, corrective, and proactive maintenance work.
• Review maintenance requests and work orders to determine scope, priority, labor requirements, materials, tools, equipment, permits, and estimated duration.
• Coordinate maintenance activities around production schedules to minimize disruption and equipment downtime.
• Ensure planned work is properly scheduled and kitted before assignment to maintenance mechanics/technicians.
• Monitor schedule compliance and communicate changes, delays, or resource constraints.
• Work as a fill-in to the maintenance supervisor when needed.

• Support development and continuous improvement of the site’s preventive maintenance program.
• Ensure PM tasks are appropriately documented and scheduled in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Partner with Maintenance leadership to reduce repeated equipment failures and unplanned downtime.

• Identify required parts and materials for planned maintenance work.
• Coordinate with Maintenance Stores/Warehouse and Procurement to verify material availability.
• Identify long‑lead, critical, or obsolete spare parts that may impact maintenance execution.
• Support optimization of critical spare‑parts inventory.

• Maintain accurate equipment, asset list/trees, job plan, PMs, and work‑order information within the CMMS.
• Manage parts inventory levels. Ensure parts are assigned to the appropriate assets and min/max quantities make sense for our strategy.
• Monitor maintenance backlog and categorize work based on priority and urgency.
• Analyze maintenance data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Manage and drive performance using Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), Weekly maintenance schedule compliance, maintenance backlog and labor utilization metrics

• Work with Maintenance and Engineering to identify recurring equipment failures and opportunities for reliability improvement.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective‑action activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing downtime, waste, labor inefficiencies, and maintenance costs.
• Participate in equipment shutdown and turnaround planning.

• Ensure maintenance job plans incorporate appropriate safety requirements, permits, lockout/tagout (LOTO), confined‑space requirements, safe plans of action (as necessary) and other applicable controls.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure maintenance work is planned with safe execution as a priority.

• Assist with planning and scheduling work performed by outside contractors and service providers.
• Ensure contractors have…