Maintenance Planner

Arcwood Environmental, LLC; Benton (AR); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stability and growth opportunities

Competitive pay and benefits

Job summary

Arcwood Environmental is seeking a Maintenance Planner to improve plant reliability, uptime and maintenance efficiency by planning, coordinating and scheduling all preventative, predictive and corrective activities. This role ensures work orders are properly scoped and jobs are executed safely with minimal downtime.

The candidate will develop executable job plans, validate scope in the field, manage backlog, and collaborate with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering and contractors to align

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in maintenance, reliability, operations, or maintenance planning/scheduling within an industrial environment.
• Experience working with CMMS software (preferred).
• High-school diploma or equivalent is required; an associate degree or technical certification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and schedule preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance activities to improve reliability and uptime.
• Ensure work orders are properly scoped with materials, labor, and safety considerations.
• Develop executable job plans including scope, labor, parts, tools, and isolation needs.
• Conduct field walks to validate scope, equipment condition, access, hazards and readiness.
• Maintain maintenance backlog by tracking status, age, priority and readiness.
• Build and maintain BOMs and asset data to support planning decisions.
• Monitor PM completion, overdue work and recommend updates based on history and reliability findings.
• Coordinate with Purchasing to source parts and prepare complete job kits for planned outages.
• Provide ready-to-execute work orders, labor estimates and resource requirements.
• Collaborate with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, contractors and improvement teams to align scope and timing.
• Capture post-job feedback and usage data to improve future plans and reliability analyses.
• Take on additional duties as assigned.

Education

High-school diploma or equivalent

Associate degree or technical certification in a maintenance-related field

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

Maintenance Planner

As the Maintenance Planner you will be responsible for improving plant reliability, equipment uptime and maintenance efficiency by planning, coordinating and scheduling all preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance activities.

This role ensures that work orders are properly scoped, materials and parts are available, labor resources are allocated, and jobs are executed safely and efficiently with minimal downtime to operations.

• Prioritizes health and safety by adhering to policies, processes, and maintaining safe practices at all times
• Creates accurate and complete service orders in mPulse, including asset information, failure codes, priority, scope, and other required documentation
• Develops executable job plans that define work scope, labor and craft requirements, estimated hours, parts, materials, tools, access needs, permits, and isolation requirements
• Conducts field walks to validate job scope, equipment condition, access, hazards, and readiness before work is released for scheduling
• Owns and maintains the maintenance backlog by monitoring work order status, age, priority, and readiness, and escalating stalled or aging work as appropriate
• Builds and maintains equipment bills of materials, asset records, nameplate data, and asset hierarchy in mPulse to support accurate planning and reliability decisions
• Monitors preventive maintenance completion and overdue work, reviews PM task lists, and recommends updates based on equipment history, field feedback, and reliability findings
• Coordinates with Purchasing to source and track parts and materials, and prepares complete job kits for planned down days, outages, and project work
• Provides prioritized, ready-to-execute work order lists, labor estimates, and resource requirements to support maintenance scheduling and outage planning
• Facilitates backlog and pre-planning reviews and collaborates with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, contractors, and continuous improvement teams to align scope, timing, and execution needs
• Captures post-job feedback, actual labor and material usage, failure information, and reactive work documentation to improve future job plans, PMs, BOMs, and reliability analysis
• Takes on additional duties as assigned to support the team and organization

Education

• High-school diploma or equivalent (required)
• Associate degree or technical certification in a maintenance-related field (preferred)

Experience

• 3+ years of experience in maintenance, reliability, operations, or maintenance planning/scheduling within an industrial environment (required)
• Experience working with CMMS software (preferred)

Overview

About Arcwood

Every advancement—from the products we use to the medicines and technologies we depend on—creates waste that must be handled responsibly. For more than 50 years, Arcwood Environmental has helped organizations across the United States manage the byproducts of progress safely and thoughtfully. With deep expertise and innovative waste management technology across a growing nationwide footprint, Arcwood protects people, communities, and the environment through work that often happens behind the scenes.

Our Values

We move forward together, one team with a shared purpose, counting on each other everyday. Our core values demonstrate how we work together to deliver value for our customers, putting them at the center of all we do:

• Lead with Safety: We uphold the highest safety and compliance standards to protect our teams, our customers and the communities that count on us.
• Solve Problems Creatively: We push for better – advancing technologies, processes, and ideas that protect human health and the environment.
• Own It Together: We are individually and collectively accountable for our work and our impact, knowing that progress is only achieved by working together – with our customers, and with each other.
• Deliver for Customers: We put customers at the center of all we do. When we live our values – lead with safety, solving problems creatively, and owning our work together – the result is clear: we deliver exceptional value for our customers.

We’ve reached a unique point as a company: big enough to deliver broad capability and consistent performance, while striving to be nimbler and more responsive to our customers’ evolving needs. Come join Arcwood and be part of our legacy of environmental leadership!

Benefits, Compensation & Workforce Diversity

• Arcwood offers stability you can count on and opportunities to grow.
• We provide steady work, competitive pay, and above-market benefits that reflect the importance of what we do.

Arcwood is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability or protected veteran status, in accordance with applicable federal laws.

A post-offer drug screen and background check will be required.

Physical Job Requirements