Maintenance Planner

Smurfit Westrock; Florida; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock in Florida seeks a Mechanical Maintenance Planner to optimize planning, scheduling, and outages for high equipment availability. You will prepare work packages, specify scope, materials, tools, permits, and costs, and coordinate with operations to maximize uptime.

You will develop PM work orders for mechanical equipment, review backlog, and participate in RCFA activities, while ensuring safety and compliance with mill policies.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent technical training with 5+ years industrial mechanical maintenance experience
• Experience with rotating equipment, pumps, gearboxes, bearings and conveying systems
• Familiarity with P&IDs, equipment manuals and technical specs
• Experience in a unionized environment (preferred)
• Basic computer skills and CMMS experience

Responsibilities

• Prepare complete work order packages with scope, specs, safety info, materials, tools, and costs
• Develop and maintain PM work orders for mechanical equipment
• Lead planning meetings to create weekly schedules and outage plans
• Track planning metrics like backlog, schedule compliance, and wrench time
• Assist RCFA investigations and implement corrective maintenance actions

Skills

Rotating equipment

Pumps

Gearboxes

Bearings

Conveying systems

Hydraulic systems

Pneumatic systems

Steam systems

Mechanical power transmission

Reading drawings & P&IDs

Education

Associate's degree in technical field

Mechanical maintenance apprenticeship

8+ years industrial maintenance experience

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Project

PI

Oracle/JD Edwards (JDE)

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Mechanical Maintenance Planner

Provide for the effective use of personnel, materials, and machine downtime to maintain production equipment availability and performance at satisfactory levels through the planning, scheduling, coordinating, and reporting of repair activities. Primary responsibility is the planning and preparation of corrective, preventive, predictive, and outage work after work identification and prioritization have occurred through the maintenance workflow process.

How You Will Impact Smurfit Westrock

• Provides complete work order packages for all planned work to include:
  • Scope of work to be performed
  • Pertinent specifications, instructions, and safety information such that a competent craftsperson can perform the work without questions
  • Expected material requirements, including kitting and delivery/staging instructions
  • Determines availability of materials and resources as required, writing purchase requisitions within the work order package as needed
  • Tools and equipment required for the job
  • Accurate locations of work and materials
  • Required permits (safety, environmental, work process, etc.)
  • Estimates for labor, time, and costs
• Completes scopes of work for bidding jobs to contractors for work that will be contracted out.
• Follows maintenance workflow processes for converting identified work requests into "ready-to-schedule" work orders, ensuring all materials, information, tools, equipment, and resources are available.
• Develops proper internal coding for materials, parts, and supplies and updates, creates, and maintains equipment parts lists and Bills of Material (BOMs).
• Attends or leads weekly planning coordination meetings with operations coordinators, maintenance supervisors, and other planners to develop weekly schedules and outage plans.
• Maintains planning backlog at acceptable levels by reviewing work requests and working with Operations and Maintenance leadership to ensure proper work prioritization.
• Assists maintenance supervisors and operations coordinators in reviewing the ready-to-schedule backlog to populate weekly schedules and outage work.
• Develops and maintains detailed preventive maintenance (PM) work orders for mechanical equipment in cooperation with maintenance supervision.
• Supports reliability initiatives through failure analysis reviews, recurring equipment issue identification, PM optimization, and development of maintenance strategies designed to improve equipment availability and reduce maintenance costs
• Assists operations coordinators in identifying ready-to-schedule work that can be assigned during equipment access opportunities resulting from unplanned downtime or emergency situations.
• Develops outage and field-day work lists and manpower requirements in conjunction with maintenance supervisors and operations personnel.
• Develops and distributes outage work lists two weeks prior to minor field days and two months prior to major or annual outages.
• Assists operations and maintenance supervisors in developing outage schedules, identifying critical path work, and integrating supporting tasks into the outage timeline.
• Coordinates outage and field-day activities through schedule management, resource tracking, contractor coordination, and work package support.
• Works with contractors to ensure complete understanding of Scopes of Work (SOWs), job conditions, safety requirements, and work locations to facilitate accurate bid submissions.
• Tracks and improves planning metrics including schedule compliance, wrench time improvement, planned versus unplanned work ratio, backlog age, and work order quality.
• Participates in Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) investigations and develops corrective maintenance work plans resulting from identified actions.
• Exercises fiscal responsibility by:
  • Working with Purchasing to secure quality services at competitive pricing
  • Returning unused materials to inventory or vendors
  • Evaluating repairable parts and equipment for cost-effective repair versus replacement

Safety

• Adheres to all mill safety policies and procedures.
• Participates in and may lead safety initiatives, meetings, and programs focused on injury prevention and continuous improvement.

Supports mill safety programs by:

• Learning and following Safe Operating Procedures
• Participating in safety meetings and training
• Reporting near misses and unsafe conditions
• Suggesting process improvements

What You Need to Succeed

• Associate’s degree in a technical field and 5+ years of industrial mechanical maintenance experience; or completion of a recognized mechanical maintenance apprenticeship and 5+ years of industrial mechanical maintenance experience; or 8+ years of industrial mechanical maintenance experience.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • Rotating equipment
  • Pumps
  • Gearboxes
  • Bearings
  • Conveying systems
  • Hydraulic and pneumatic systems
  • Steam systems
  • Mechanical power transmission equipment
• Experience working in a unionized environment.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), equipment manuals, and technical specifications.
• Experience in the pulp and paper industry (preferred).
• Vibration, lubrication, and condition-monitoring concepts (preferred).
• Critical spare parts management (preferred).
• Maintenance planning and scheduling methodologies (preferred).
• Reliability and precision maintenance experience (preferred).
• 5S, Lean Manufacturing, and/or Six Sigma experience (preferred).
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Additional experience with Microsoft Project, PI, Oracle, JD Edwards (JDE), and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) preferred.

Smurfit Westrock is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating and maintaining a diverse workforce including Minorities, Females, Disabled Persons, and Veterans.

Candidates are required to undergo a drug screening after receiving a conditional job offer, but before starting employment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.