Analyst Maintenance Planner

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Requisition Number: 131057

Job Location:
Hershey, PA

At The Hershey Company, we make more moments of goodness through some of the world's most iconic brands, including Hershey's, Reese's, Kit Kat®, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Dot's Pretzels, Lesser Evil and more. Our team supports a global portfolio of over 90 brands, creating opportunities to shape strategies and drive impact across a breadth of businesses that few companies can offer. While many organizations focus on a handful of brands, Hershey provides exposure to a diverse portfolio of category-leading brands enjoyed by consumers around the world.

What truly sets us apart is our legacy. Inspired by Milton Hershey's belief that business should create opportunity for others, we have been making a positive impact for more than a century through our commitment to communities, philanthropy, and our longstanding partnership with Milton Hershey School. When you join Hershey, you become part of a company where purpose, growth, and making a difference are woven into how we do business every day.

How will you fit in the big picture?

The Analyst Maintenance Planner helps the Reese plant execute maintenance work safely and efficiently by building job-ready work plans, coordinating labor and materials, and aligning maintenance schedules with production needs. Working closely with the Reliability Lead and Business Unit partners, this role strengthens preventive and predictive maintenance, supports accurate asset and spare-parts information in SAP, and uses reliability data to improve equipment performance and production effectiveness.

What will you do?

Plan and schedule maintenance work by initiating, reviewing, and managing SAP work orders; define scope, labor, parts, equipment, specialty tools, and job steps so work can be executed without avoidable delays.

Partner with Business Unit teams in daily and weekly planning reviews to coordinate equipment availability, prioritize work, support labor requests, and prepare weekday and weekend maintenance plans.

Collaborate with the Reliability Lead to prioritize the work-order backlog, assign available resources, maintain posted schedules, and improve planning and scheduling routines.

Maintain accurate preventive and predictive maintenance activities, frequencies, documentation, and material requirements for plant assets; review predictive data and create follow-up work requests when action is needed.

Maintain asset and spare-parts information in SAP, support appropriate inventory levels, and establish recurring maintenance requirements for new and existing equipment.

Review equipment performance metrics, failure information, and maintenance process data to identify improvements to maintenance systems, reliability, cost, and uptime.

Communicate technical findings to operators, technicians, peers, and leaders; support small improvement efforts and escal issues that exceed established authority.

Periodically provide day-to-day coordination or supervisory coverage as business needs require.

• Education:
  
  Associate degree in a technical discipline preferred, or equivalent technical training and relevant experience in troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of electrical, mechanical, or facilities systems and equipment.
• Experience:
  
  1+ years of relevant maintenance experience required; 3+ years in manufacturing maintenance with mechanical and…