Maintenance Planner

Post Holdings, Inc.; Nebraska; On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Post Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Maintenance Planner to support both Maintenance and Reliability services. This role involves planning, scheduling, and executing maintenance tasks while ensuring compliance with food safety regulations.

The ideal candidate has a high school diploma, experience in industrial maintenance, and is proficient in SAP. The position emphasizes teamwork, communication, and continuous improvement within a dynamic production environment.

Qualifications

• 2 to 3 years of experience as an industrial maintenance technician preferred.
• Trained in MFI MTL1 and MTL2 skills preferred.
• 1 to 2 years of experience with maintenance planning in a manufacturing environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and champion Precision Maintenance® techniques.
• Ensure all policies related to food safety and quality are followed.
• Monitor and report WR/WO status to plant leadership weekly.

Skills

SAP experience

Excellent written and verbal communication

Time management

Maintenance planning

Ability to read mechanical drawings

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate's degree or technical certificate (preferred)

Tools

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

Wakefield is one of the largest production facilities within Michael Foods. We serve as a flex plant and are able to produce everything from a whole pasteurized egg to liquid, dried, hardboiled and curds.

Responsibilities

This role is for Monday–Friday, 6:30 am–3:30 pm. SAP experience is required.

The Maintenance Planner provides support to both Maintenance and Reliability services within the plant, championing maintenance process execution 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 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 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 Planner will monitor and report WR/WO status, including backlog, to plant leadership weekly and be accountable for KPIs using CMMS data. They will be a competent CMMS user responsible for data integrity. The 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.

• 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.
• Develop and implement PM and job plans for critical equipment work with maintenance, reliability, operations, & engineering personnel.
• Actively participate in maintenance process and system training for team personnel.
• Advise and 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, BOMs, 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 through the guidance of MFI ARM standards.
• Keep accurate and up‑to‑date records as required.
• Provide 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; assume personal responsibility to ensure safe and healthy workplace for everyone; adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Adhere to quality work practices, follow GMPs, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained.
• Report on conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Always ensure 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, frequently stand and walk, occasionally 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 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. These physical demands 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.