Maintenance Planner

Ball Corporation; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ball Corporation is seeking a Maintenance Planning & Scheduling professional to lead maintenance activities in a manufacturing setting. You will oversee CMMS/ERP data, create and optimize preventive maintenance programs, and coordinate daily maintenance with production teams to improve reliability and reduce downtime.

Responsibilities include managing work orders, tracking KPIs, and ensuring accurate maintenance data.

Responsibilities

• Administers and optimizes the CMMS/ERP data used to plan, schedule, manage, and report maintenance activities, asset history, and work orders.
• Reviews maintenance work orders daily to identify missed or incomplete tasks and communicates deficiencies to responsible personnel.
• Generates and tracks maintenance KPIs and compliance metrics to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
• Reviews P1 notifications and work requests, standardizes descriptions, and improves CMMS searchability and history.
• Prioritizes work requests with management, Operations, and Maintenance based on severity, risk, and production needs.
• Creates and maintains preventive maintenance work orders in JDE, including service types, job plans, PM schedules, and required parts.

Job description

At Ball, integrity and trust are the foundation of who we are. Guided by our core values "We Care. We Work. We Win. we create a culture where every voice matters, and every idea drives progress."

Together with our global employees, customers, and partners, were turning bold sustainability goals into reality and shaping a future we can all be proud of.

Primary Purpose of the Position

Leads maintenance planning and scheduling, work order management, and coordinated execution of standardized maintenance activities in a manufacturing environment. Administers preventive maintenance data and asset records through the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and ERP platform, including JDE, SAP, or equivalent systems. Coordinates daily maintenance and planned outage/shutdown activities, drives parts and materials readiness, tracks maintenance KPIs, and identifies continuous improvement opportunities that improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and control maintenance costs.

Essential Responsibilities

• Administers and optimizes the equipment maintenance system, CMMS, and ERP data used to set up, plan, schedule, manage, and report maintenance activities, asset history, and work orders.

• Reviews maintenance work orders daily to identify missed or incomplete work, communicates deficiencies to responsible personnel, and calculates assigned maintenance KPIs and compliance metrics.

• Runs preventive maintenance compliance reports, follows up on noncompliant work orders, and supports accurate PM completion and maintenance data quality.

• Reviews P1 notifications and work requests, standardizes descriptions and equipment naming, validates job scope, and improves future CMMS searchability and work order history.

• Meets weekly with management, Operations, and Maintenance to prioritize work requests based on severity, risk, production needs, labor availability, and equipment reliability.

• Creates and maintains preventive maintenance work orders in JDE, including service types, task instructions, model work orders, job plans, PM schedules, labor needs, and required parts, with input from Maintenance and Production.

• Maintains the JDE master tracker and controlled documentation for preventive maintenance work orders, job plans