Maintenance Planner

General Mills, Inc; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

General Mills, Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Planner to lead asset care strategies, maintenance planning and scheduling, and ensure CMMS data accuracy across the plant. The role demands strong technical knowledge of maintenance crafts, equipment design, and manufacturing requirements to deliver reliable operations.

You will lead safety practices, collaborate with plant leaders, and own Maximo standards, guiding cost-aware decisions and continuous process improvements.

Qualifications

• Maintenance planning and scheduling experience.
• Strong CMMS/Maximo proficiency.
• Asset care leadership and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Industrial maintenance knowledge across crafts and equipment.
• Commitment to safety culture in manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of asset care strategies for the platform to meet objectives (Budget, Reliability, Schedule).
• Communicate tradeoffs between performance, cost and asset health; provide spending history by work type.
• Act as early Management point for Asset Care Strategies and Maximo setup for new capital projects.
• Own CMMS data accuracy and Maximo standards for the team.

Skills

Maintenance planning

CMMS/Maximo

Asset care leadership

Industrial maintenance

Safety culture

Tools

Maximo

CMMS

Job description

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for leading and delivering differential improvement in the overall effectiveness, quality and sustainability of the team's asset care strategies. They own Asset Care Strategy, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling process, CMMS health and data accuracy for their systems. Good communication skills, process rigor as well as strong technical knowledge in maintenance crafts, equipment design and function, manufacturing requirements, and maintenance processes are required to deliver effective maintenance strategies and process improvements.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Safety

Lead Human and Food Safety

• Cultivate Human Safety Culture that reduces risk to our people and communities by increasing capability to proactively discuss, identify and control risk.

• Cultivate Food Safety Culture that is committed tomanufacturingsafefood that iscompliant with policyand regulatory requirements.

Asset Care Leadership

• Lead implementation of asset care strategies for the platform (90% of All A and B Assets) to deliver plant and department objectives (Budget, Reliability, Schedule etc.).

• Communicate and educate effectively across the platform team and plant leaders about the impact and tradeoffs between performance, cost and asset health. Communicate spending history and prediction by work type and category to assist in budget management.

• Early Management point person for Asset Care Strategies and Maximo setup around new capital.

• Owns CMMS Data Accuracy

• Owns Maximo standards and usage for the team.