As a Maintenance Planning Specialist, you'll plan, schedule, and coordinate manpower resources, parts, material, and equipment access in support of maintenance functions. You'll provide maintenance planning support to ensure reliability of facilities and processes, including optimizing maintenance processes, satisfying safety concerns, and providing a short- and long-range planning perspective that considers people, facilities, equipment, and supplies.

Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:

• Leads weekly maintenance scheduling meeting with the Foremen and Team Leaders
• Prioritizes timing of routine maintenance; recommends schedules to maintenance leader; recommends required kit parts, tools, and equipment to ensure availability; publishes daily/weekly maintenance priority planned work lists
• Schedules preventative maintenance tasks based on equipment and labor availability
• Coordinates with Operations Leaders on equipment scheduling and availability for maintenance
• Organizes future planned shutdown events with Technology Leader, Team Leaders, Foremen, Asset Management, contractors, and Manufacturing/Warehouse supervision
• Works with Asset Management team on stock item list and appropriate inventory levels for minimum/order/maximum quantities to ensure identification of adequate spare parts inventory
• Prepares daily Maintenance Scorecard for facility meetings
• Develops reference systems (e.g., planned job packages for recurring jobs, organized equipment documentation library)
• Collaborates with maintenance leaders to create, maintain, and revise preventative maintenance specifications, corrective procedures, and SOPs
• Tracks PM/CM completion rates against target metrics
• Develops/maintains a work order backlog report
• Reviews equipment history for maintenance trends; identifies recurring maintenance problems; recommends improvements
• Perform all duties in accordance with safety rules and regulations
• Perform other duties as necessary
• Ensures all equipment is set up in asset management system; ensures appropriate preventative maintenance setup at appropriate intervals
• Collects/prepares/edits new equipment-related data; enters it into EAM database

Qualifications & Key Requirements:

Work Experience: 5+ years of experience in industrial maintenance - Required
Experience working with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS): (Infor EAM preferred) - Preferred
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Strong industrial maintenance knowledge - Required
Working knowledge of CMMS, preferably Infor EAM, or the ability to quickly learn the system - Required
Strong understanding of maintenance planning activities and strategies - Required
Strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills - Required
Intermediate computer skills; proficiency in MS Office applications - Required
Ability to read, write, understand, and communicate clearly in English (required) - Required
Ability to manage multiple priorities - Required
Ability to work independently; a self-starter - Required
Education: Bachelor's Degree Mechanical or electrical engineering OR 5+ years of experience in industrial maintenance - Required

Physical Demands & Working Conditions:
Stand/walk for 90% of shift
Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
Regularly lift up to 50 lbs
Work extended hours, including occasional weekends or nights to support projects
Maneuver through the facility and perform job functions with or without accommodation; stand, stoop, bend, etc.
Work in wet, cold, or hot environments (temperatures may range from 30 to 100 degrees F, depending on work location). The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Partner encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.