Maintenance Planner

# Maintenance Planner Portland, OR 97220## Overview Level Experienced Position  Type Full Time Job Shift Day Education  Level Not Specified

Travel Percentage None Category Service  & Maintenance## Description The Maintenance Planner reports to the Maintenance Manager and builds and sustains plant maintenance work-management practices. The position administers CMMS workflows, plans maintenance, reports PM performance, manages day-to-day MRO inventory, and coordinates Maintenance and Engineering vendor setup and purchase orders.
* Develop and document CMMS standards with the Maintenance Manager for work request, planning, scheduling, execution, and closeout
* Maintain accurate assets, PMs, job plans, work orders, parts, labor, and equipment history.
* Improve data quality and train users on approved workflows
* Prepare job plans and schedules with required labor, parts, and production access.
* Maintain a ready backlog and coordinate weekly priorities with the Maintenance Manager, Production, and Engineering
* Measure and communicate PM and schedule compliance; follow up on overdue work and escalate misses or barriers to the Maintenance Manager
* The Maintenance Manager retains responsibility for technician performance, coaching, and corrective action
* Own day-to-day warehouse organization, labeling, transactions, cycle counts, and inventory accuracy
* Maintain part records, locations, lead times, min/max levels, critical spares, receipts, issues, and returns
* Recommend major stocking, obsolescence, write-off, and financial changes for management approval
* Coordinate vendor-setup documentation and approvals for Maintenance and Engineering.
* Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders within established approval requirements; track orders, receipts, discrepancies, and invoices
* The role does not own strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, or final purchasing approval.
* Report PM and schedule compliance, backlog, planned versus reactive work, work-order quality, inventory accuracy, stockouts, and purchasing activity
* Use equipment and cost data to support root-cause analysis, PM optimization, and reliability improvements
* Prioritize safety, food safety, and regulatory requirements
* All other duties as assigned## Qualifications
** Education and Experience
*** High school diploma or equivalent (i.e., GED)
* Minimum three years of maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS, MRO inventory, or related industrial maintenance experience
* Manufacturing or industrial maintenance experience with working knowledge of mechanical and electrical equipment
* Demonstrated experience building or improving maintenance workflows, PM programs, CMMS data, or storeroom controls where processes were not fully established
* Hands-on CMMS, MRO inventory, cycle-count, purchase-order, and vendor-coordination experience
* Self-directed system builder able to assess an unclear current state and implement practical, sustainable processes with limited training
* Strong maintenance planning, job scoping, estimating, materials coordination, prioritization, and schedule-development skills
* Ability to measure performance, follow up on commitments, and influence technicians and partners without supervisory authority
* Working knowledge of mechanical and electrical maintenance, equipment manuals, drawings, bills of material, parts, and safety requirements
* Strong organization, data accuracy, follow-through, problem solving, communication, reporting, spreadsheet, and general computer skills
* Ability to manage competing priorities, identify risk, escalate appropriately, and work effectively with internal teams, vendors, and contractors
* Ability to successfully pass the pre-employment process
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* Physical Requirements:

*** Ability to work in office, maintenance shop, storeroom, warehouse, and active manufacturing environments
* Ability to sit, stand, and walk for extended periods and regularly move throughout the facility
* Ability to occasionally bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, and access equipment or inventory locations
* Ability to occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull items weighing up to 30 pounds; heavier items may require assistance or material-handling equipment
* Ability to frequently use a computer, keyboard, phone, and other standard office equipment
* Ability to read equipment labels, parts information, manuals, drawings, computer screens, and other maintenance documentation
* Ability to work around operating production equipment and tolerate typical…