Maintenance Planner

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed maintenance job plans for corrective, preventive, predictive, condition-based, and project maintenance activities.
• Plan work based on priorities established by the Maintenance Area Supervisor and Area Team.
• Own release-to-schedule readiness for all planned maintenance work orders.
• Develop complete work packages including labor estimates, craft requirements, tools, materials, permits, safety requirements, procedures, and contractor support requirements.
• Utilize craft knowledge, engineering resources, OEM documentation, equipment history, and field inspections to develop accurate and effective maintenance job plans.
• Maintain strong knowledge of systems, equipment, and manufacturing processes within assigned areas of responsibility.
• Support outage planning by defining work scope, sequencing activities, identifying constraints, and assisting in critical path planning.
• Review the maintenance backlog daily to ensure work orders are accurately defined, prioritized, and maintained within the CMMS.
• Verify work requests contain appropriate descriptions, asset assignments, priorities, and scope definitions.
• Remove duplicate work orders and improve overall backlog quality.
• Generate work requests for equipment requiring corrective maintenance when identified during routine activities.
• Maintain a minimum of two weeks of fully planned, ready-to-schedule, non-PM backlog within assigned areas.
• Maintain equipment history, job plans, and planning documentation within the CMMS.
• Support continuous improvement of CMMS data quality and work management processes.
• Support reliability improvement initiatives through development and optimization of preventive maintenance (PM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), and predictive maintenance programs.
• Optimize PM job plans utilizing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles and criticality-based decision making.
• Develop standard job plans, PM procedures, CBM tasks, standard work instructions, and maintenance documentation.
• Analyze condition monitoring and predictive maintenance reports and generate follow-up work orders as required.
• Track CBM program effectiveness and support efforts to reduce equipment failures, downtime, and maintenance costs.
• Assist with asset reliability improvement projects and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure frequently used spare parts are established and maintained within the storeroom inventory.
• Identify and coordinate procurement of required non-stock materials and services for planned work.
• Develop and stage maintenance kits for work where material readiness is critical to execution success.
• Verify kit completeness and readiness before scheduled maintenance activities and outages.
• Ensure all required materials, special tools, permits, drawings, procedures, and documentation are available before work is released for scheduling.
• Maintain organized and efficient kitting and staging areas that support maintenance execution efficiency.
• Participate in Gemba walks and readiness reviews for critical maintenance activities.
• Participate in pre-job walkthroughs to validate scope, safety requirements, access requirements, labor estimates, and material readiness.
• Review published schedules and verify planned work has appropriate labor and resource allocation.
• Collaborate with Maintenance Supervisors, Schedulers, Operations, Engineering, and Reliability personnel to ensure successful execution of scheduled work.
• Support schedule compliance initiatives by identifying constraints and readiness gaps before execution.
• Provide planning support for outages, shutdowns, and major maintenance activities.
• Support equipment startup and return-to-service activities following planned outages and major maintenance events.
• Ensure work orders overseen by the planner are properly finalized and closed in accordance with plant work management standards.
• Capture execution feedback and incorporate improvements into future job plans and maintenance procedures.
• Update job plans, bills of materials, labor estimates, and maintenance documentation based on actual execution results.
• Update shift narratives, maintenance reports, and outage documentation as required.
• Participate in root cause analyses (RCA), corrective action development, and reliability investigations.
• Develop, maintain, and improve standard operating procedures, one-point lessons, and maintenance best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on maintenance productivity, schedule compliance, reliability, and equipment availability.
• Ensure all planned work complies with Reynolds safety standards, environmental requirements, regulatory requirements, and company policies.
• Participate in and support daily, weekly, outage, and area team meetings.
• Support emergency breakdown events after stabilization by providing equipment knowledge, job plans, repair procedures, material identification, and technical planning assistance.
• Promote a culture of safety, accountability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as backup for WEM Supervisors and other maintenance leadership positions as assigned.
• Support contractor safety and compliance requirements during maintenance activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Industrial Technology, Maintenance Management, or related technical discipline preferred.
• Equivalent combination of education and manufacturing maintenance experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of maintenance, reliability, planning, scheduling, engineering, or supervisory experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in a union manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience utilizing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).
• Experience developing maintenance job plans, outage plans, work packages, and maintenance procedures.
• Strong knowledge of Work Execution Management (WEM) processes and maintenance best practices.
• Working knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
• Knowledge of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM), and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Strong understanding of maintenance materials management, inventory control, and kitting processes.
• Experience utilizing maintenance KPIs including schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog health, equipment availability, and maintenance productivity.
• Proficiency with CMMS systems, Microsoft Office applications, and maintenance reporting tools.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, Purchasing, and Contractor personnel.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.