Planner-Maintenance~A5740A~

As a Fortune 500 company, Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) is an ideas and solutions company. Our corrugated packaging business seeks to be the leader in helping our customers — large and small — package, transport and display products of all kinds. Our white paper business delivers Paper With Purpose by providing the highest level of customer service and operational excellence.

We have approximately 15,000 team members in more than 100 locations in the United States that strive to meet the local needs of our customers. Our mission is to serve the needs of our customers, today and tomorrow, with products and services that exceed expectations for performance and environmental responsibility.

• Customers
• Trust

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning and scheduling for effective utilization of the workforce, materials and equipment with the purpose of executing plant maintenance work to increase time and minimize unscheduled downtime. This position identifies safety needs, staffing, materials and special equipment to execute maintenance work as well as conducting equipment data collection, processing, and analysis.

• Coordinate department activity with the Customer Service, Scheduling and Production teams to develop optimum maintenance schedule, limit production lags and assure an even flow of work through all the departments.
• Plan and schedule the time, parts, and personnel necessary to meet maintenance and production requirements with a minimum of downtime and cost.
• Estimate, plan, coordinate, and schedule regulatory inspection work orders, annual routine outages, scheduled shutdowns, and the preventative maintenance program.
• Work with maintenance supervisor to effectively schedule manpower requirements for the planned work.
• Work with Maintenance supervisor and maintenance leads to effectively manage the work order backlog.
• Inspect jobs in progress; determine necessary alterations to plan and act accordingly.
• Assist in accurate, complete, and timely preparation of reports relating to work loads, performance, backlog, delays, work orders, equipment history, execution, unscheduled break-in work, and regulatory reporting. Prepare other reports as needed.
• Schedule and coordinate outside contractors, inspections and OEM support.
• Determine and ensure personnel and material requirements for maintenance work.
• Lead efforts alongside the Maintenance Supervisor to ensure a high‑performing maintenance department, including vendor selection, maintenance backlog management, meeting facilitation and staff oversight.
• Effectively utilize BPMS, to coordinate, prioritize and manage work orders. Maintain accurate documentation of completed work orders, preventative maintenance processes and updates to equipment records.
• Partner with Environmental, Health and Safety team to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulation in daily operations.
• Manage the Maintenance Receiver and Purchaser to oversee procurement and inventory of spare and consumable parts (including critical spares), while ensuring cost control within the established budget.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and injury‑free work environment by ensuring health and safety procedures are understood and executed by all employees.
• Know and follow policies and procedures of the company, including those governing financial controls, hot work authorization, non‑routine (upset condition) operations, and electrical task assignments. Shares information that would benefit other members of the team and find ways to improve the delivery of service to our customers.
• Strive to continually strengthen PCA’s business philosophy of meeting needs and exceeding expectation for customers. This includes supporting PCA’s Commitment to Service which involves doing what’s right for our customers, focusing on strategies that add value and support growth, and keeping the promises that we make.

Education equivalent to associate’s degree or completed certification in production or maintenance is preferred or equivalent experience in production and/or maintenance.

Previous work experience as a member of a team, or a strong…