Maintenance Planner

Post Holdings, Inc.; Iowa, Northern (LA, KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Foods, Inc. in Lenox, Iowa is seeking an Experienced Maintenance Planner with a strong mechanical background and SAP/CMMS expertise.

You will support reliability and maintenance teams, plan and schedule critical asset work, and ensure data integrity in CMMS while driving KPI improvements. The role requires coordination with operations, engineering, and supervision, adherence to safety rules, and availability for weekend/holiday coverage as needed.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; Associate degree or technical certificate preferred.
• 2–3 years of experience in industrial maintenance planning preferred.
• Trained and competent in SAP and CMMS tools preferred.
• Excellent communication and scheduling skills are essential.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and P&ID diagrams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and champion precision maintenance techniques to meet tolerances.
• Develop and implement PM and job plans for critical equipment.
• Assist in maintenance process training and coaching for team members.
• Maintain CMMS records and KPI data; report status to leadership weekly.
• Support safety, GMP compliance, and food safety/quality policies.

Skills

Maintenance planning

SAP

CMMS

KPI reporting

Communication

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate degree or two-year certificate

Tools

SAP

CMMS

Job description

Business Unit Overview

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.

Location Description

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Lenox, Iowa and often called the "Pearl of the Prairie" is where you can find small town living, focused on family and friends, with big city amenities not far from reach in Des Moines, Omaha, and Kansas City. Located in southwest Iowa, Taylor county, with a population of around 1400, the Lenox area reaches far beyond the city limits with beautiful and productive fields of corn, beans, and other croplands. Lenox holds an amazing four day Rodeo every July and is home to a beautiful 36-9 hole golf course, several fishing and boating lakes, great area hunting, a beautiful city park with swimming pool, and many picnic parks. The MFI location in Lenox produces primarily pre-cooked egg patties. With its friendly atmosphere, safe environment, and progressive spirit, Lenox is a great place to live, work, play, and raise a family.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an Experienced Maintenance Planner with a high level of mechanical compentency and experience with SAP. This role is M-F.

SUMMARY:

The Maintenance Planner provides support to both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing maintenance process executional excellence and asset health improvement efforts. The Maintenance Planner will ensure results while partnering with the MFI ARM team, plant maintenance team personnel, plant operational team, and all other plant support teams members for success. The Maintenance Planner will actively participate on the maintenance workflow process team and will ensure that work orders for plant assets are in the CMMS backlog and are being planned and scheduled effectively. The Maintenance Planner will work with Supervisors, Leads, & Technicians to help ensure that scheduled work orders are properly executed, followed through, documented and the value of the job is captured and reported. They will promote, execute, mentor, and coach excellence in planning & scheduling preventive and corrective maintenance practices. The Maintenance Planner will monitor and report WR/WO status, including backlog, to plant leadership weekly and be accountable for KPI’s using CMMS data. They will be a competent CMMS "user" responsible for data integrity. The Maintenance Planner will become a resource to the plant who constantly assists in improving the operating condition of equipment and improving the effectiveness and performance of the maintenance team. This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures and activities, related to Food Safety & Quality, are followed and complied with uniformly, in an effort to reduce product and process variability.

This role must be available for scheduled work times, weekends, and holidays, as necessary.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Actively participate as a maintenance team support services member to ensure personal safety, quality, delivery, and cost, are continuously being improved to achieve company objectives. Engage and develop the asset care team members to deliver expected levels of reliability. Be an active member who contributes to the advancement of the MFI & ARM culture.
• Plan, schedule, and champion Precision Maintenance techniques ensuring procedural compliance and that job tolerances are met
• Identify, develop, and implement maintenance process and performance improvement projects
• Develops and implements PM and job plans for critical equipment work with the maintenance, reliability, operations, & engineering personnel.
• Actively participate in maintenance process and system training for team personnel
• Advise / assist craftsman during planned and scheduled maintenance assignments as necessary
• Plan and schedule preventive and corrective maintenance tasks with excellence
• Actively participate in storeroom activities related to job packages and kitting, component criticality analysis, reliability-based storage practices
• Actively participate in the development and sustainability of the CMMS physical asset data base including equipment & component criticality, precision tasks, BOM's, and all other necessary supporting data for asset care excellence
• Actively participate in maintenance & reliability task scheduling for long term and short-term equipment reliability in an inclusive and transparent manner working with operations partners

• Utilize MFI approved CMMS to manage, document, and support reliability reporting and decision making. This will be accomplished through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.

• Keep accurate and up-to-date records as required.
• Provides input for root cause analysis (RCA) and Reliability Centered Maintenance to create an environment of continuous asset reliability improvement.
• Promote, and foster Michael Foods culture, values, and principles.
• Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviors. Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.

• Adheres to Quality work practices, follows GMP's, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reports on conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Always ensures required regulatory compliance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent
• Associate's degree or two-year technical certificate, or experience which demonstrates technical aptitude preferred
• 2 to 3 years of experience as an industrial maintenance technician preferred
• Trained and competent in MFI MTL1 and MTL2 skills preferred
• Ability to read and decipher mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and P&ID diagrams preferred
• E&I troubleshooting experience preferred
• 1 to 2 years of experience with maintenance planning in a manufacturing environment preferred
• Prior experience in SAP at "competent user" level preferred
• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with superb time management and project scheduling skills.
• Excellent administrative and follow up skills to achieve success with condition-based maintenance, preventive maintenance, and precision corrective repair programs.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.