Maintenance Planner

Florida's Natural Growers; Umatilla (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision benefits

401k

PTO

Job summary

Florida’s Natural Growers in Florida is seeking a Maintenance Planner to improve the efficiency of the maintenance team by planning, scheduling, kitting and coordinating preventive, predictive, and corrective tasks across the site.

You will ensure work is properly scoped, resourced, prioritized, and aligned with production while driving safe, reliable beverage manufacturing and durable equipment performance. Strong CMMS experience and collaboration with technicians and engineers are essential.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• 3–5 years of experience in industrial maintenance, maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, or related manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, refrigeration, utilities, or industrial processing equipment.
• Experience using a CMMS such as SAP, IBM Maximo, Fiix, eMaint, Maintenance Connection, or similar system.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize multiple maintenance activities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work effectively with hourly technicians, supervisors, managers, production personnel, engineers, and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed job plans for preventive, predictive, corrective, and proactive maintenance work.
• Review maintenance requests and work orders to determine scope, priority, labor requirements, materials, tools, equipment, permits, and estimated duration.
• Coordinate maintenance activities around production schedules to minimize disruption and equipment downtime.
• Ensure planned work is properly scheduled and kitted before assignment to maintenance mechanics/technicians.
• Monitor schedule compliance and communicate changes, delays, or resource constraints.
• Work as a fill-in to the maintenance supervisor when needed.
• Support development and continuous improvement of the site’s preventive maintenance program.
• Ensure PM tasks are appropriately documented and scheduled in the CMMS.
• Partner with Maintenance leadership to reduce repeated equipment failures and unplanned downtime.
• Identify required parts and materials for planned maintenance work.
• Coordinate with Maintenance Stores/Warehouse and Procurement to verify material availability.
• Identify long‑lead, critical, or obsolete spare parts that may impact maintenance execution.
• Support optimization of critical spare‑parts inventory.
• Maintain accurate equipment, asset list/trees, job plan, PMs, and work‑order information within the CMMS.
• Manage parts inventory levels. Ensure parts are assigned to assets and min/max quantities make sense.
• Monitor maintenance backlog and categorize work by priority and urgency.
• Analyze maintenance data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Manage and drive performance using MTBF, MTTR, weekly schedule compliance, backlog and labor utilization metrics.
• Work with Maintenance and Engineering to identify recurring equipment failures and opportunities for reliability improvement.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective-action activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing downtime, waste, and costs.
• Participate in equipment shutdown and turnaround planning.
• Ensure maintenance job plans include safety requirements, permits, LOTO, confined-space requirements, and other controls.
• Promote a strong safety culture and safe execution priority.
• Assist with planning and scheduling work performed by outside contractors and service providers.
• Ensure contractors have appropriate scope, schedule, materials, access requirements, and safety expectations.

Skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Prioritization

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate degree or technical certification in Maintenance, Industrial Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SAP

IBM Maximo

Fiix

eMaint

Maintenance Connection

Job description

Join the Team at Florida’s Natural Growers – Now Hiring:Maintenance Planner!

At Florida’s Natural, goodness runs through our veins. We’re a citrus co-op with roots deep in the Florida soil. We care for our trees, our fruit, our land, and each other. That goodness is contagious. It’s what makes coworkers friends and the work fruitful. Pun intended. We’re on a mission to spread more good. Join us!

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the maintenance organization by planning, scheduling, kitting and coordinating preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities. This position ensures maintenance work is properly scoped, resourced, prioritized, and scheduled to minimize equipment downtime. They will drive safe, reliable beverage manufacturing along with keeping the facility and utility systems functioning efficiently and correctly.

What you’ll do:

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

• Develop detailed job plans for preventive, predictive, corrective, and proactive maintenance work.
• Review maintenance requests and work orders to determine scope, priority, labor requirements, materials, tools, equipment, permits, and estimated duration.
• Coordinate maintenance activities around production schedules to minimize disruption and equipment downtime.
• Ensure planned work is properly scheduled and kitted before assignment to maintenance mechanics/technicians.
• Monitor schedule compliance and communicate changes, delays, or resource constraints.
• Work as a fill-in to the maintenance supervisor when needed.

Preventive & Predictive Maintenance

• Support development and continuous improvement of the site’s preventive maintenance program.
• Ensure PM tasks are appropriately documented and scheduled in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Partner with Maintenance leadership to reduce repeated equipment failures and unplanned downtime.

Materials & Parts Coordination

• Identify required parts and materials for planned maintenance work.
• Coordinate with Maintenance Stores/Warehouse and Procurement to verify material availability.
• Identify long‑lead, critical, or obsolete spare parts that may impact maintenance execution.
• Support optimization of critical spare‑parts inventory.

CMMS Administration & Data

• Maintain accurate equipment, asset list/trees, job plan, PMs, and work‑order information within the CMMS.
• Manage parts inventory levels. Ensure parts are assigned to the appropriate assets and min/max quantities make sense for our strategy.
• Monitor maintenance backlog and categorize work based on priority and urgency.
• Analyze maintenance data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Manage and drive performance using Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), Weekly maintenance schedule compliance, maintenance backlog and labor utilization metrics

Reliability & Continuous Improvement

• Work with Maintenance and Engineering to identify recurring equipment failures and opportunities for reliability improvement.
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective‑action activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on reducing downtime, waste, labor inefficiencies, and maintenance costs.
• Participate in equipment shutdown and turnaround planning.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Ensure maintenance job plans incorporate appropriate safety requirements, permits, lockout/tagout (LOTO), confined‑space requirements, safe plans of action (as necessary) and other applicable controls.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure maintenance work is planned with safe execution as a priority.

Contractor Coordination

• Assist with planning and scheduling work performed by outside contractors and service providers.
• Ensure contractors have appropriate scope, schedule, materials, access requirements, and safety expectations.
• Track contractor work and communicate schedule or scope changes to appropriate stakeholders.

What we’re looking for:

Required

• High school diploma or GED.
• 3–5 years of experience in industrial maintenance, maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, or a related manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, refrigeration, utilities, or industrial processing equipment.
• Experience using a CMMS such as SAP, IBM Maximo, Fiix, eMaint, Maintenance Connection, or similar system.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize multiple maintenance activities in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment.
• Ability to work effectively with hourly technicians, supervisors, managers, production personnel, engineers, and contractors.

Preferred Certifications

• Associate degree or technical certification in Maintenance, Industrial Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in beverage, food, packaging, citrus, or other high‑volume manufacturing.
• Experience with reliability‑centered maintenance, predictive maintenance, or root cause analysis.
• Maintenance planning or scheduling certification.
• Experience supporting plant shutdowns or major equipment installations.
• Familiarity with OSHA requirements, LOTO, food safety, GMPs, confined space and sanitation requirements.

Technical experience in the following would be ideal:

• CMMS systems and maintenance work‑order management
• Preventive and predictive maintenance
• Industrial mechanical and electrical systems
• Pumps, motors, conveyors, compressors, packaging equipment, and process equipment
• Utilities and refrigeration systems
• Maintenance parts and inventory management
• Maintenance scheduling and resource planning
• Equipment reliability principles
• Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
• Maintenance KPI reporting and data analysis

What we provide

• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• 401k
• PTO
• And more!

About Florida’s Natural

At Florida’s Natural, goodness runs through our veins. We’re a citrus co‑op with roots deep in the Florida soil. We care for our trees, our fruit, our land, and each other. We’re the farmers and families of Florida’s Natural. Our juices are the life’s work of generations of farmers. From the highest‑quality ingredients to the highest standards for flavor, we care about it all. We craft goodness into every glass for a difference you can taste. And we don’t stop at juice. Every part of the fruit that’s leftover is recycled to make fragrances, flavors, animal feed, and more. Because goodness never goes to waste.

FLORIDA’S NATURAL CAREERS
Goodness is our Nature!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Florida’s Natural Growers also maintains affirmative action programs to implement our equal employment opportunity policy.