Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner

Buckman – Cadet, MO

Location:

Cadet, MO

Language:
English

Travel up to 25%

Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment.

Position Summary

Plans, schedules, and provides maintenance oversight for production assets in a batch specialty chemical manufacturing environment. The role ensures that maintenance work is safely scoped, prioritized, scheduled, resourced, executed, documented, and returned to service in a manner that protects people, the environment, product quality, process safety, and asset reliability. It integrates maintenance planning and scheduling, CMMS work management, contractor and vendor coordination, preventive maintenance compliance, mechanical integrity requirements, pressure vessel and fixed-equipment inspection support, and lifecycle asset management principles to minimize downtime, reduce rework and recurring failures, improve technician productivity, and support reliable plant operations.

Key Outcomes/Responsibilities

Outcome:
Safe, compliant maintenance execution and return-to-service readiness

Maintenance activities are planned and executed with no preventable safety, environmental, quality, or process-safety incidents.

Actions:

• Integrates permit-to-work, LOTO, hot work, confined space, line break, chemical compatibility, and job safety requirements into work planning.
• Verifies maintenance work packages include required procedures, parts, tools, contractor support, isolation requirements, and post-maintenance inspection/testing.
• Confirms safe equipment turnover and return-to-service readiness in partnership with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and S/H/E.

Outcome:
Maintenance planning, scheduling, and PM attainment

Weekly and long-range maintenance schedules are visible, realistic, and aligned with production priorities, asset criticality, and resource availability.

Actions:

• Develops weekly, outage, and forward-looking schedules using CMMS data, production needs, backlog priorities, and technician/contractor capacity.
• Coordinates downtime windows with Production and Scheduling to complete preventive maintenance, inspections, corrective work, and reliability tasks.
• Tracks schedule attainment, PM compliance, backlog health, break-in work, and recurring delays to improve planning accuracy.

Outcome:
Work order quality, prioritization, and execution readiness

Work orders are complete, prioritized, and executable, reducing rework, wasted technician time, and schedule disruption.

Actions:

• Reviews, screens, plans, prioritizes, and releases work orders in the CMMS based on safety, environmental risk, production impact, asset criticality, and customer commitments.
• Defines job scope, labor estimates, parts, materials, permits, special tools, contractor needs, access requirements, QA checks, and documentation requirements.
• Uses completed work history, failure notes, and technician feedback to improve job plans, PM content, bills of material, and asset records.

Outcome:
Resource, contractor, vendor, and expense control

Maintenance resources, contractors, parts, and outside services are coordinated to meet plant needs while controlling cost, lead time, and execution risk.

Actions:

• Aligns internal maintenance labor, I&E support, contractor resources, and vendor services to the approved schedule.
• Obtains and compares quotes, evaluates cost/lead-time tradeoffs, coordinates procurement and storeroom readiness, and supports cost-conscious execution.
• Provides hands-on support or coordination when resource constraints threaten safety, quality, schedule attainment, or plant continuity.

Outcome:
Reliability improvement and lifecycle asset management support

Maintenance planning supports higher asset availability, reduced emergency work, improved MTBF, and lifecycle value realization.

Actions:

• Identifies recurring failures, chronic bad actors, and repeat work orders; supports root cause analysis, FRACAS-style follow-up, and corrective/preventive action tracking.
• Uses asset criticality, failure modes, operating context, and condition information to recommend PM/PdM improvements and reliability-focused job plans.
• Supports lifecycle asset management by improving asset records, maintenance strategies, spare parts planning, repair history, and renewal/replacement inputs.

Outcome:
Mechanical integrity, fixed equipment, and regulatory documentation control

Inspection, test, repair, and documentation activities for covered equipment are planned and tracked to support OSHA PSM Mechanical Integrity, applicable API/ASME practices, and site compliance expectations.

Actions:

• Plans and tracks inspections,…