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Maintenance Planner

Job in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, 07175, USA
Listing for: AAK AB
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-18
Job specializations:
  • Maintenance/Cleaning
    Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Industrial Maintenance, Maintenance Manager
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 91000 - 105000 USD Yearly USD 91000.00 105000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Making Better Happen

Our story goes back more than 150 years, tothe windy coast where Sweden and Denmark meet.

From our success in Scandinavia, we've grown into the world's leading specialist producer of plant-based oils, employing more than 4000 people all across the globe.

We work with our customers to make the products you love even better. The oils we produce go into making your chocolate extra creamy or putting the crunch into your croissant. And it's not just food - we work across industries to make products that are higher quality, healthier and better for the planet.

Every one of us works towards our shared purpose:
Making Better Happen™.

Everything we do is about Making Better Happen together.

Join nearly 4,000 like-minded colleagues globally and build a better future with us.

Build a better future as a Maintenance Planner in Newark, NJ

Compensation Range: $91,000 - $105,000

Possible Bonus: 7.5%

AAK Newark About the role

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the planning, scheduling, and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) administration that drives the site's maintenance program. This role plans and schedules preventive, corrective, emergency, and predictive work orders, maintains the integrity of maintenance data in the CMMS, and partners closely with the Plant Engineer, Maintenance Manager, and MRO Specialist to ensure work is planned with the right parts, labor, and information so it can be executed safely, efficiently, and on schedule.

Responsibilities
  • Develop, publish, and maintain the site's daily and weekly maintenance schedules in the CMMS, balancing preventive, corrective, emergency, and predictive work against available labor, parts, and asset availability.
  • Review and triage all incoming work requests (PM, CM, EM, PdM), assigning priority, craft, and target completion timeframe in the CMMS.
  • Plan corrective and preventive work orders in the CMMS, identifying required parts, labor hours, tools, permits, and job procedures before releasing work to the maintenance team.
  • Build, standardize, and continuously refine the PM task library and PM schedules to maximize equipment reliability and compliance.
  • Generate and release PM work orders on schedule and monitor PM compliance against site targets.
  • Partner with the Reliability team to translate predictive maintenance (PdM) findings (vibration, thermography, oil analysis) into scoped, planned corrective work orders.
  • Own and continuously groom the maintenance backlog, ensuring aging work orders are prioritized, resourced, and scheduled appropriately.
  • Serve as the primary administrator of the CMMS for the maintenance department, including workflow configuration, asset hierarchy and equipment master data integrity, and data entry standards.
  • Ensure accurate work order closeout, failure coding, and documentation in the CMMS for all completed preventive, corrective, emergency, and predictive work.
  • Coordinate with the MRO Specialist to confirm parts availability and lead times ahead of scheduled work, and flag reorder point or min/max needs for critical spares.
  • Develop and distribute maintenance KPI and metrics reporting (PM compliance, backlog aging, MTTR/MTBF, wrench time) to maintenance leadership.
  • Partner with the Plant Engineer and Maintenance Manager to align weekly schedules with production priorities, outages, and turnaround plans.
  • Maintain job plans, standard work instructions, and equipment documentation to support consistent, repeatable work execution.
  • Support root cause analysis and reliability improvement initiatives by supplying historical work order, failure, and cost data.
About you
  • Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, Maintenance Management, or a related technical field…
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