Maintenance Planner

Sonoco; Chicago (IL); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in global packaging solutions seeks a Maintenance Planner for its Chatham, NY plant. The role focuses on planning and scheduling maintenance tasks to ensure efficiency and safety in operations. Candidates should have strong preventive maintenance experience and excellent organizational skills, alongside proficiency in Cworks or similar CMMS.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan with company match

Wellbeing tools and resources

Paid time off and holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• Strong preventive maintenance experience required.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills needed.
• Technical background highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule all maintenance jobs ensuring safety.
• Communicate planned work and improvements with maintenance teams.
• Oversee the PM Calendar and keep it updated.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Technical Skills

Preventive Maintenance

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Troubleshooting

Computer Literacy

Education

Experience with Cworks or similar CMMS

Job description

Position: Maintenance Planner
Location: Chatham, NY
Hourly Pay Rate: $30.15

From a small family business to a multi-billion dollar global company, Sonoco has been changing the face of products and packaging since 1899 — all while keeping the heart of “People Build Businesses” alive. Our talented people are at the core of our growth, constantly reinventing the Sonoco wheel with brilliant solutions every year. Today we are a world leader in global packaging solutions with diversified operations in over 34 countries. We're extremely proud of our portfolio of brands, our achievements in sustainability and industrialization and the groundbreaking work accomplished by our people.

This position will be based in Chatham, NY plant. A charming town located in Columbia County in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. Known for its picturesque landscapes, small-town charm, and vibrant cultural scene.

While reporting to the Plant Engineer, this position will be directly responsible for planning and scheduling daily work needed to properly maintain all plant equipment. Key focus of this position is to plan and schedule preventive maintenance activities that will drive a culture of Zero Breakdowns.

What you'll be doing:

• Ensuring all maintenance jobs are planned and scheduled with safety at the forefront
• Ensuring that all maintenance work is thoroughly planned one week out
• Ensuring communication of planned work to all affected parties
• Communicating and strategizing work needed with maintenance owners
• Identifying Areas for Improvement to include safety risks and PM task improvements
• Assisting in creating plans for improvement efforts
• Owning and planning Maintenance Downtime to ensure all required work can be completed
• Advanced understanding and upkeep of Cworks system
• This position must understand the importance of Preventive/Predictive Maintenance and be able to plan and schedule daily activities to support this proactive maintenance approach.
• Ability to work closely with all levels of the plant to plan, schedule, and communicate daily activities.
• Self-motivated to ensure all maintenance functions within their realm are planned and scheduled in the safest manner and with such efficiency that no jobs are waiting on parts, tools or manpower to perform the task.
• Must be able to work closely with maintenance owners to ensure that PM tasks are thorough and timely.
• Will require an excellent balance of organizational skills, leadership skills, strong work ethic, written and verbal communication skills, and dynamic people skills.
• Due to the nature of this job, strong maintenance skills (particularly an understanding of preventive maintenance needed for many mechanical components) are required.

Specific Duties:

• Responsible for personal commitment to safety, working toward an injury-free environment. Responsible for ensuring that all tasks are planned and scheduled with safety in mind.
• Thoroughly planning each maintenance task from prep work needed, documentation required, parts kitted, manpower needed to complete and post-work needed.
• Communicating with all stakeholders to understand findings and work needed
• Ensuring communication and strategizing with maintenance owners on the maintenance work plan in their area
• Communicating planned work to all affected parties
• Owning the PM Calendar and ensuring its accuracy at all times
• Ensuring schedule is communicated to maintenance owners and supervisor two weeks out.
• Ensure daily schedule is given to lead men to be communicated to maintenance owners
• Responsible for maintaining Cworks
• Ensuring all PM checklists are attached and continuously updated in Cworks
• Able to run Cworks reports that will provide insight to any clean-up needs in Cworks

We'd love to hear from you if:

• Excellent Leadership Skills
• Highly Technical
• Preventive Maintenance Experience
• Excellent Organizational Skills
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Structured and excels in a Process environment
• Troubleshooting Skills
• Strong computer literacy
• Experience with Cworks or other CMMS program a must.

At Sonoco Products Company, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive pay and benefits. *Benefits listed below are for employees located in the U.S. Specific benefits and wellbeing programs may vary depending on your location (within the U.S. or global), or if you are a union employee.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, including FSA and HSA options
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Wellbeing tools and resources to support holistic health, including an Employee Assistance Program with a variety of services
• Paid time off and holidays to recreate, rejuvenate and care for the health of yourself and family
• Variety of company paid and voluntary employee-paid insurance plans including life, personal accident, and disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.