Maintenance Planner

Description

Maintenance Planner – Buckman – Cadet, MO

• Language: English

About the Role

Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company committed to environmental safety, workplace safety, and sustainable development. We deliver innovative solutions to the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment industries to enhance productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and achieve a positive ROI.

Key Outcomes/Responsibilities

• Safe, compliant maintenance execution and return-to-service readiness:
• Maintenance activities are planned and executed with no preventable safety, environmental, quality, or process-safety incidents.
• Permit-to-work, LOTO, hot work, confined space, line break, chemical compatibility, and job safety requirements are integrated into work planning.
• Work packages include required procedures, parts, tools, contractor support, isolation requirements, and post-maintenance inspection/testing.
• Safe equipment turnover and return-to-service readiness are confirmed in partnership with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and S/H/E.
• Maintenance planning, scheduling, and PM attainment:
• Weekly and long-range maintenance schedules are visible, realistic, and aligned with production priorities, asset criticality, and resource availability.
• Schedules are developed using CMMS data, production needs, backlog priorities, and technician/contractor capacity.
• Downtime windows are coordinated with Production and Scheduling for preventive maintenance, inspections, corrective work, and reliability tasks.
• Schedule attainment, PM compliance, backlog health, break-in work, and recurring delays are tracked to improve planning accuracy.
• Work order quality, prioritization, and execution readiness:
• Work orders are complete, prioritized, and executable, reducing rework, wasted technician time, and schedule disruption.
• Job scopes, labor estimates, parts, materials, permits, special tools, contractor needs, access requirements, QA checks, and documentation requirements are defined.
• Completed work history, failure notes, and technician feedback are used to improve job plans, PM content, bills of material, and asset records.
• Resource, contractor, vendor, and expense control:
• Maintenance resources, contractors, parts, and outside services are coordinated to meet plant needs while controlling cost, lead time, and execution risk.
• Internal maintenance labor, I&E support, contractor resources, and vendor services are aligned to the approved schedule.
• Quotes are obtained and compared, cost/lead-time tradeoffs are evaluated, procurement and storeroom readiness are coordinated, and cost-conscious execution is supported.
• Hands-on support or coordination is provided when resource constraints threaten safety, quality, schedule attainment, or plant continuity.
• Reliability improvement and lifecycle asset management support:
• Maintenance planning supports higher asset availability, reduced emergency work, improved MTBF, and lifecycle value realization.
• Recurring failures, chronic bad actors, and repeat work orders are identified, and root cause analysis, FRACAS-style follow-up, and corrective/preventive action tracking are supported.
• Asset criticality, failure modes, operating context, and condition information are used to recommend PM/PdM improvements and reliability-focused job plans.
• Lifecycle asset management is improved by improving asset records, maintenance strategies, spare parts planning, repair history, and renewal/replacement inputs.
• Mechanical integrity, fixed equipment, and regulatory documentation control:
• Inspection, test, repair, and documentation activities for covered equipment are planned and tracked to support OSHA PSM Mechanical Integrity, applicable API/ASME practices, and site compliance expectations.
• Pressure vessels, storage tanks, piping, relief devices, pumps, controls, alarms, interlocks, and emergency shutdown systems are inspected, tested, repaired, and deficiencies corrected.
• Coordination with Engineering, inspectors, vendors, and contractors on pressure vessel and fixed-equipment work includes repair scope, material verification, NDE needs, pressure testing, and documentation.
• Work records capture inspection/test results, equipment IDs, findings, corrective actions, and evidence needed for audits, management of change, and process safety information updates.

Basic Qualifications

• Education Requirements: High School Diploma or equivalent
• Job Experience: 7-9 years in maintenance planning and scheduling fundamentals, including job scoping, estimating, backlog management, schedule compliance, PM/PdM execution, and CMMS data quality.
• Mechanical Aptitude and Troubleshooting Knowledge: For production equipment, utilities, piping, pumps, valves, relief devices, instrumentation, controls, and fixed equipment.
• Maintenance and Reliability Concepts: Work management, equipment reliability, manufacturing process reliability, business metrics, leadership, stakeholder communication, RCA, and continuous improvement.
• Communication, Contractor/Vendor Coordination, Time Management, Quote Comparison, Cost Awareness, and Prioritization: Ability to adjust priorities without compromising safety or compliance.
• Software Knowledge: Working knowledge of SAP/Concur, CMMS/e-Maintenance, Microsoft Excel/Word/PowerPoint, and Buckman administrative systems.