Maintenance Planner

Our client, a leading wood products company, is seeking a dedicated professional responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating all plannable maintenance work performed on the worksite. The role also involves maintaining proper maintenance records and files essential for meaningful analysis and reporting of maintenance-related matters.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Daily review of maintenance time sheets and compare completed work orders and PMs to time sheets, ensuring numbers and time match, and rescheduling any work orders and PMs not completed.
• Review work orders for any parts that need ordering.
• Review completed PMs and ensure appropriate work orders are written.
• Write any work orders as needed.
• Plan and schedule maintenance work orders and PMs daily in order of highest priority, prioritizing any safety work order that proposes an immediate safety hazard.
• Ensure parts are in stock for any scheduled work.
• Create purchase requisitions and order part numbers for non-stock items.
• Update BOM list bi-weekly.
• Track problem areas in the mill by reviewing function locations with repetitive work orders.
• Track cylinder, electric motor, and pump failures through open work orders to completion.
• Schedule outside contractors for maintenance or repair services as needed.
• Attend and participate in safety meetings.
• Communicate daily with Maintenance Supervisor concerning maintenance issues and any repetitive problems.
• Review all downtime reports daily.
• Participate in RCFA team activities to identify and implement solutions to failures.
• Interface with Predictive Maintenance Technicians daily to ensure all equipment condition monitoring data indicating potential problems is incorporated into planned maintenance and failures are prevented.
• Maintenance Clerk backup as needed, including completing PMs and work orders, printing PMs, completing maintenance time, and payroll.
• Learn to print safety work order reports, PM reports, and failure and cost reports.
• Help refine PMs as needed.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned.

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Minimum 5 years of maintenance experience in a heavy industrial environment.
• CMMS experience.
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Microsoft Office experience.
• 2 years of experience including responsibility for planning daily maintenance and scheduled outages preferred.
• Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate across different levels at the mills.

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Experience in the wood products/lumber industry.
• 10 years of millwright experience preferred.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Logical reasoning.
• Project management.
• Teamwork.
• Exceptional written and verbal skills.
• Strategic thinking.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Experience with managing multiple projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively on all levels.
• Flexibility and the ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment.