Maintenance Planner

reworld; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Reworld is seeking a Maintenance Planner to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation of a highly technical industrial facility in Newark. You will plan, schedule, and optimize maintenance activities to maximize equipment availability and asset performance.

Reporting to site maintenance leadership, you will work with maintenance, operations, engineering, and procurement to develop outage plans, manage CMMS tasks, and drive reliability initiatives across the plant.

Qualifications

• Plans, schedules, coordinates, and optimizes maintenance activities.
• Works with maintenance, operations, engineering, and leadership to maximize asset performance.
• Focus on safety, reliability, continuous improvement, and long-term asset health.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute maintenance activities per safety and regulatory standards.
• Create, review, and close maintenance work orders with accurate records.
• Prioritize activities based on criticality and production needs.
• Coordinate technicians, contractors, tools, and materials for planned work.
• Collaborate with Storeroom to ensure parts availability.
• Support capital projects and major repairs planning.
• Assist outage planning including manpower and budgets.
• Develop detailed scopes and execution plans for outages.
• Evaluate maintenance data to identify priorities and improve reliability.
• Prepare reports and support decision-making with maintenance metrics.

Job description

Who we are

For more than 40 years, Reworld has been a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing our customers with innovative solutions that help them achieve carbon-negative outcomes.

Our Vision

Reworld is leading the charge to a carbon-negative future through revolutionary sustainable materials management solutions that reduce, reuse, recycle and reimagine waste for the benefit of society and the environment.

Our Business

Reworld partners with businesses by offering cutting-edge engineering and innovative solutions, to help customers reduce, reuse, recycle and recover value from waste streams and meet or exceed their sustainability goals.

Our Value

Reworld's differentiator comes from our ecosystem of technology, facilities and partnerships, trusted by the world's largest organizations to reimagine waste management for a smarter, more sustainable world.

All that we're missing is you.

About the role

As a Maintenance Planner, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of a highly technical industrial facility. This position plans, schedules, coordinates, and optimizes maintenance activities to maximize equipment availability, improve asset reliability, reduce downtime, and support uninterrupted plant operations. Working closely with maintenance, operations, engineering, and site leadership teams, you will help drive operational excellence while supporting a culture focused on safety, reliability, continuous improvement, and long-term asset performance.

This is an excellent opportunity for a maintenance professional who enjoys solving complex equipment challenges, improving maintenance effectiveness, and directly contributing to plant performance. The successful candidate will gain exposure to preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs, outage planning, reliability initiatives, capital project support, and asset management strategies. This role is a key contributor to equipment reliability, outage planning, asset management, and long-term maintenance strategy, while providing a pathway to broader maintenance, reliability, and operations leadership opportunities.

Reporting to site maintenance leadership, the Maintenance Planner develops and manages maintenance plans, work schedules, outage activities, inspection programs, and reliability initiatives across the facility. Utilizing PeopleSoft as the primary Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), this individual serves as a key liaison between maintenance technicians, contractors, operations personnel, engineering resources, and plant leadership to ensure maintenance priorities align with operational goals, safety requirements, environmental compliance standards, reliability objectives, and production targets.

Key Activities & Responsibilities

• Ensure all maintenance activities are planned and executed in accordance with Reworld safety policies, environmental requirements, industry standards, and applicable regulations.


• Develop, schedule, and optimize preventive, predictive, corrective, and reliability-focused maintenance work orders using the CMMS system.


• Prioritize maintenance activities based on equipment criticality, operational requirements, production schedules, resource availability, and business needs.


• Create, review, track, and close maintenance work orders while ensuring accurate documentation of labor, materials, completed work, equipment history, and maintenance records.


• Collaborate with maintenance teams to capture detailed work feedback and continuously improve job planning effectiveness.


• Coordinate maintenance technicians, contractors, tools, equipment and materials to ensure successful execution of planned work.


• Work closely with the Storeroom team to ensure required parts and materials are properly identified, staged, and available before work begins.


• Support the planning and scheduling of capital projects, equipment installations, plant modifications, major repairs, and maintenance shutdown activities.


• Assist with planned and unplanned outage planning, including manpower requirements, material procurement, contractor coordination, schedules, budgets and resource allocation.


• Generate detailed work scopes, schedules, and execution plans for major maintenance activities performed during scheduled outages.


• Evaluate equipment history, maintenance records, condition monitoring data, predictive maintenance results and performance trends to identify maintenance priorities and improve equipment reliability.


• Support equipment inspections during planned and forced outages.


• Develop outage inspection matrices identifying inspection scope, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and execution strategies.


• Compile, analyze and present inspection findings, maintenance metrics, equipment performance data and reliability information to support maintenance decision-making.


• Prepare condition assessment reports, executive summaries and recommendations rel