Asset Reliability Planner

About the role

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. The Asset Reliability Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and improving maintenance and reliability activities across the facility. This role serves as the primary link between Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Reliability to ensure maintenance work is properly planned, scheduled, and executed in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner.

The Asset Reliability Planner drives proactive maintenance practices by maximizing planned work, improving PM effectiveness, supporting TPM initiatives, and reducing equipment downtime through effective planning and scheduling processes. The position plays a critical role in supporting Packaging OEE, asset reliability, maintenance productivity, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
  • Develop daily and weekly maintenance schedules.
  • Plan and schedule preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.
  • Ensure maintenance work orders contain clear instructions, labor estimates, required parts, permits, tools, and technical documentation.
  • Create detailed job plans for recurring and critical maintenance activities.
  • Coordinate maintenance schedules with production requirements.
  • Maintain an executable maintenance backlog.
  • Publish and communicate weekly maintenance schedules.
• Work Order Management
  • Review, prioritize, and manage work requests.
  • Ensure work orders are appropriately coded and prioritized.
  • Drive closure of completed work orders.
  • Verify maintenance history accuracy within CMMS.
  • Maintain data integrity within maintenance systems.
  • Review completed work orders for comments, findings, and follow-up actions.
• Preventive Maintenance (PM) Program
  • Manage PM scheduling and compliance.
  • Review PM frequencies and effectiveness.
  • Eliminate unnecessary PM tasks.
  • Identify opportunities to improve asset maintenance strategies.
  • Support PM optimization initiatives.
  • Coordinate PM execution during planned downtime opportunities.

  Accountable For: PM Compliance, PM Effectiveness, PM Optimization, PM Schedule Attainment

• Reliability Support
  • Support reliability improvement initiatives.
  • Assist with Root Cause Analysis activities.
  • Track repeat failures and bad actors.
  • Identify recurring equipment issues.
  • Develop corrective action plans with maintenance and operations teams.
  • Support reliability-centered maintenance activities.

  Focus Areas: Thermoformers, Packaging Equipment, Robotics, Conveyors, Utilities Systems, Refrigeration Systems

• Maintenance Resource Coordination
  • Coordinate labor resources to support maintenance execution.
  • Ensure proper staffing of planned work.
  • Balance preventive and corrective maintenance activities.
  • Coordinate support contractors as required.
  • Identify resource constraints and escalate risks.
• Parts & Materials Management
  • Coordinate with storeroom personnel to ensure parts availability.
  • Verify required materials prior to work execution.
  • Review critical spare parts inventory.
  • Support inventory optimization initiatives.
  • Identify obsolete and excess inventory.

  Responsibilities: Critical Spare Parts Management, Planned Parts Availability, Inventory Accuracy, Storeroom Optimization

• Shutdown & Outage Planning
  • Develop detailed shutdown plans.
  • Coordinate outage schedules.
  • Manage outage work lists and priorities.
  • Coordinate contractors and vendors.
  • Track outage execution performance.
  • Support startup readiness activities.
• TPM & Operational Excellence Support
  • Support TPM deployment initiatives.
  • Participate in Autonomous Maintenance programs.
  • Support Focused Improvement activities.
  • Drive maintenance planning best practices.
  • Support OEE improvement initiatives.
  • Participate in loss elimination projects.
• Continuous Improvement
  • Identify maintenance process improvement opportunities.
  • Develop efficiency improvements within maintenance workflows.
  • Analyze maintenance performance metrics.
  • Support lean maintenance initiatives.
  • Drive standardization of maintenance planning processes.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Maintenance
  • PM Compliance >95%
  • Schedule Compliance >90%
  • Planned Work >70%
  • Emergency Work <10%
  • Work Order Closure Compliance
• Reliability
  • Reduction in Repeat Failures
  • MTBF Improvement
  • Reduced Maintenance Downtime
  • Bad Actor Elimination
• Planning
  • Weekly Schedule Attainment
  • Backlog Health
  • Parts Availability
  • Work Order Data Accuracy
• TPM
  • Planned Maintenance Pillar Performance
  • TPM Audit Scores
  • Autonomous Maintenance Support

Requirements

• Required
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • 3+ years maintenance, planning, reliability, or manufacturing experience
  • Experience with CMMS systems
  • Strong Microsoft Excel skills
  • Mechanical and electrical maintenance knowledge
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Strong communication skills
• Preferred
  • Associate's Degree or Technical Degree
  • 5+ years manufacturing maintenance experience
  • SAP PM experience
  • TPM experience
  • Reliability experience
  • Planning and scheduling experience
  • Lean Manufacturing experience

Skills

• Maintenance Systems
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Predictive Maintenance
  • Work Order Management
  • Planning & Scheduling
  • Asset Management
  • Reliability
• Analysis
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Failure Analysis
  • Reliability Fundamentals
  • Equipment Criticality
• Software
  • SAP PM
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Power BI (Preferred)
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Leadership Expectations

• Promote proactive maintenance practices.
• Build strong partnerships with Operations, Engineering, and Maintenance.
• Drive accountability for planning and scheduling excellence.
• Support TPM and Operational Excellence initiatives.
• Focus on safety, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Success Measures

Within the first 12 months, the Asset Reliability Planner should help Perry achieve:

• PM Compliance >95%
• Planned Work >70%
• Emergency Work <10%
• Improved Packaging OEE
• Reduced equipment downtime
• Improved maintenance productivity
• Enhanced TPM maturity
• Improved spare parts readiness
• Reduction in repeat equipment failures

Primary Mission

Ensure the right work is planned correctly, scheduled effectively, and executed safely to maximize asset reliability, improve Packaging OEE, and support world-class maintenance performance.

Pay

The starting rate for this role is $81k - $95k (Annual). Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, and candidate skill set and experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Life and disability insurance
• 401k participation
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Wear the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (e.g., beard/hairnet, ear plugs, frock, boots).
• Stand for extended periods of time.
• Use hands/arms to push,