Maintenance Planner

Smurfit Westrock Company; Ohio; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock Company is seeking a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler to optimize the use of personnel, materials, and equipment downtime. You will plan, schedule, and report preventive maintenance and repairs to keep production equipment available and performing at target levels.

The role requires coordinating scopes, schedules, and risk assessments, ensuring safety through JHA processes, and aligning plans with operations to minimize downtime and costs.

Qualifications

• Experience planning and scheduling preventive maintenance and repairs.
• Ability to manage multiple work orders and prioritize resources.
• Strong understanding of safety requirements and JHA processes.

Responsibilities

• Maintain backlog of work orders and move them to ready-to-schedule phase.
• Develop job plans, define parts and materials, engage resources for safe, efficient plans.
• Coordinate planning activities including scope, scheduling, risk assessments, and improvements.
• Collaborate with Operations to align plans with equipment availability.
• Oversee end-to-end planning and execution of work orders; resolve issues.
• Maintain equipment BOMs in CMMS and track parts and changes.
• Schedule preventive maintenance and maintain records in CMMS.
• Compile work order packets to analyze hours and resources needed.
• Lead reliability efforts for maintenance budgeting and planning.
• Work cross-divisionally to enhance plant efficiency.
• Facilitate daily core team meetings to prioritize and schedule.
• Perform other duties as assigned and comply with safety requirements.
• Overtime is required.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

Work order management

CMMS data entry

Safety compliance

JHA (Job Hazard Analysis)

Cross-functional collaboration

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Maintenance, or related field

Tools

J.D. Edwards CMMS

Job description

Job title: Maintenance Planner / Scheduler

Reports To: Maintenance Manager

Department: Maintenance

Summary:

The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler is responsible for managing the efficient and effective use of personnel, materials, and machine downtime to maintain production equipment availability and performance at satisfactory levels. The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler executes the critical planning, scheduling, coordinating, and reporting of preventative maintenance and repair work orders to ensure operational effectiveness.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Maintain backlog of work orders and move work orders to the ready-to-schedule phase, and review technician feedback upon work completion.
• Manage work order priority, develop job plans, define parts and materials and engage the proper resources to develop a safe, effective and efficient work control plan.
• Coordinate planning activities such as scope identification and control, scheduling, risk assessments, execution and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance lead to ensure that plans and schedules are aligned based on the availability of equipment to support the plant operations.
• Incorporate safety requirements and JHA’s (Job Hazard Analysis) for all work orders and jobs to support and drive safe work behaviors.
• Oversee the end-to-end planning and execution of work orders and resolve any work order issues.
• Maintain real-time equipment bill of materials in J.D. Edwards CMMS software, including updating parts that have changed and new equipment.
• Schedule preventive maintenance on all equipment in the plant and surrounding areas and maintain accurate records of work completed in J.D. Edwards CMMS software
• Compile work order packets incorporating work documentation from technicians to analyze the number of man-hours and resources needed to close out the work order.
• Utilize J.D. Edwards CMMS to lead technicians in reliability efforts of precision, predictive, and preventive maintenance for annual budget planning.
• Work cross-divisionally with operations and maintenance to enable efficiency and consistency for plant operations.
• Facilitate daily core team meetings to review planned work orders, prioritize work order viability, and schedule the maintenance orders to reduce any machinery downtime.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Overtime is required.

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