Maintenance Planner in our food manufacturing facility oversees the strategic planning, scheduling, and coordination of maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability, regulatory compliance, and minimal production downtime.
Key Responsibilities include:
Maintenance Strategy & Planning
- Develop and manage preventive, predictive, corrective and condition-based maintenance plans.
- Create and maintain long-term maintenance schedules (up to 12 months) aligned with production goals.
- Develop and manage work orders and job plans using CMMS (CMMS experience is a must, CWORKS is a preferred CMMS).
Regulatory & Safety Compliance
- Ensure all maintenance activities meet food safety standards (e.g., HACCP, SQF, GMP).
- Maintain maintenance documentation for audits and inspections.
- Collaborate with QA, HR and safety teams to uphold hygiene, personnel and food safety protocols.
Resource Management and Coordination
- Manage and schedule technicians, contractors and equipment access to minimize production disruption in coordination with Production and QAs.
- Order, maintain and manage spare parts inventory.
- Optimize labor, material usage and inventory to improve cost-efficiency.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Liaise with production, engineering, quality & HR departments to align maintenance with operational and other business needs.
- Lead maintenance planning meetings and communicate priorities to stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement
- Analyze work center performance data and predict trends for servicing needs.
- Enter data into the CMMS and develop PM plans for equipment.
- Work with departments to ensure sufficient spares are available. Order parts if and when needed.
- Ensure the system is updated to include all required info.
- Develop a PM schedule for new and existing machines/equipment.
- Send out requests for PM and order spare parts for any outstanding work found during the PM.
- Prepare the downtime report for the defined period and review with PM team members
- Ensure PMs are completed on time and reschedule if or when needed.
- Create and update stock tooling drawings as required.
- Establish and maintain suitable inventory levels for spare parts.
- Create spare part list and organize by machines in order to easily track where parts are being used most.
- Analyze daily stock movement and establish visuals for min and max stock quantities.
- Support capital projects, as well as equipment repairs and upgrades.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: 5–8 years in maintenance planning, preferably in a large or medium-size food manufacturing.
- Education: Bachelor’s Diploma or degree in mechanical/electrical engineering or industrial maintenance.
- Systems: Proficiency in CMMS software (CWorks preferred, but not a must) and Microsoft Office (especially Excel & Word).
- Knowledge: Strong understanding of maintenance best practices and food safety regulations.
- Strong analytical skills, including troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills, effective in quickly identifying issues, causes and sustainable corrective actions.
- Maintenance
- Ability to read/understand and analyze Electrical, Mechanical, Electronics & other Equipment / Machinery / Facilities Drawings and Schematics
- Analysis skills
- Purchasing
- Root cause analysis
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, time management, organizational and team building abilities.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $80,000.00-$90,000.00 per year
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)
Work Location: In person
