Maintenance Planner

• Department:
  Operations

At
Link Snacks
, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.

We’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands—Jack Link’s® , Lorissa’s Kitchen® , Golden Island® , BiFi® , and Peperami® and KOOEE!® to name a few—there’s nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it.

Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.

Real Meat Protein. Real People. Real Results. THAT is Link Snacks.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for creating work orders, schedules, and preventive maintenance plans using a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to maintain equipment at peak operating efficiency.

Perform the following:

• Creating preventative maintenance task, work orders, schedules, and maintenance plans detailing frequency, labor estimates, parts, and costs.
• Having expert knowledge of each type of equipment in the plant
• Collaborating with operations to maximize equipment availability and minimize downtime while keeping all equipment maintenance up to date.
• Partnering with Maintenance Supervisors to schedule work and maximize labor utilization
• Coordinating planned downtimes and working with maintenance staff, contractors, and vendors
• Collaborating with other Planner(s) and Maintenance Supervisors across all shifts to develop work plans, ensure their timely execution, and proper documentation. Assisting Part Room Attendant to stock all critical spare parts and ordering parts required to complete all maintenance procedures.
• Developing procedures using OEM Manuals, P&IDs, drawings, schematics, and industry standards.
• Maintaining records and files for maintenance management using a CMMS.
• Creating new procedures using reliability, predictive, and preventative strategies.
• Establishing goals and KPIs for the maintenance workforce
• Generate reports using various maintenance, labor, and cost statistics.
• Applicability of regulations to facility equipment and processes. Including workplace safety, food safety, corporate standards, and environmental compliance.
• Working with maintenance department team to develop and complete training for Maintenance Technicians.
• Contributing to new equipment installations and continuous improvement while partnering with Engineering team.
• Electrical maintenance compliant with NFPA 70B

• High School Diploma

• 2+ years planner experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with a CMMS

• Associates degree in applicable field or maintenance planner certification.
• Food industry experience.
• Process Safety Management (PSM) compliance covered processes (ammonia refrigeration).
• Water and Wastewater experience

• Proven thorough understanding of automated equipment and machinery (process & packaging), HVAC, lighting, ammonia refrigeration, utility systems (i.e., boilers, hot water, glycol, etc.), ovens, material handling equipment, grounds keeping, security and overall facility appearance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; must work effectively with all levels of management and team members.
• Must demonstrate effective leadership, problem solving, presentation, and team member motivational skills.
• Profic…