Maintenance Planner

Packaging-Corporation-of-America; Wallula (WA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Packaging-Corporation-of-America is seeking a Maintenance Planner in Washington to plan and schedule maintenance work, coordinate with multiple teams, and ensure uptime.

The role requires strong organizational, analytical, and leadership skills, with experience in equipment and electrical maintenance and familiarity with BPMS and scheduling software. Safety and compliance are emphasized in daily operations.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or completed certification in production maintenance.
• Strong background in equipment and electrical maintenance.
• Demonstrated analytical and organizational capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule for effective utilization of workforce, materials and equipment to execute plant maintenance work and maximize uptime.
• Coordinate department activity with Customer Service, Scheduling and Production teams to develop optimum maintenance schedule and ensure smooth workflow.
• Plan and schedule time, parts, and personnel to meet maintenance and production requirements with minimal downtime and cost.
• Estimate, plan, coordinate, and schedule maintenance work including weekly schedules, inspections, outages, shutdowns, and preventative maintenance.
• Inspect jobs in progress and determine necessary alterations to plan and act accordingly.
• Prepare accurate, complete, and timely reports on workloads, backlog, delays, work orders, equipment history, execution and regulatory reporting.
• Schedule and coordinate outside contractors, inspections, and OEM support.
• Determine and ensure personnel and material requirements for maintenance work.
• Lead efforts with Maintenance Supervisor to ensure a high-performing maintenance department, including vendor selection, backlog management, meeting facilitation and staff oversight.
• Utilize BPMS to coordinate, prioritize and manage work orders; maintain documentation of completed work orders and updates to equipment records.
• Partner with Environmental, Health and Safety to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.
• Coordinate with Maintenance Clerk to oversee procurement and inventory of spare parts, ensuring cost control within budget.
• Maintain a clean, safe and injury-free work environment by ensuring health and safety procedures are followed.
• Follow policies and procedures including financial controls, hot work authorization, non-routine operations, and electrical task assignments; share information to improve service delivery.
• Strengthen PCA’s Commitment to Service by focusing on value, growth and keeping promises to customers.

Skills

Equipment maintenance

Electrical maintenance

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Associate degree or certification in production maintenance

Tools

Microsoft Office

Maintenance scheduling software

Job description

Principal Accountabilities:

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning and scheduling for effective utilization of the workforce, materials and equipment with the purpose of executing plant maintenance work in order to increase up time and minimize unscheduled downtime. This position identifies safety needs, staffing, materials and special equipment to execute maintenance work as well as conducting equipment data collection, processing, and analysis.

Coordinate department activity with the Customer Service, Scheduling and Production teams to develop optimum maintenance schedule, limit production lags and assure an even flow of work through all the departments.

Plan and schedule the time, parts, and personnel necessary to meet maintenance and production requirements with a minimum of downtime and cost.

Estimate, plan, coordinate, and schedule maintenance work including the weekly maintenance schedules, regulatory inspection work orders, annual routine outages, scheduled shutdowns, and the preventative maintenance program.

Inspect jobs in progress; determine necessary alterations to plan and act accordingly.

Assist in accurate, complete, and timely preparation of reports relating to work loads, performance, backlog, delays, work orders, equipment history, execution, unscheduled break-in work, and regulatory reporting. Prepare other reports as needed.

Schedule and coordinate outside contractors, inspections, and OEM support

Determine and ensure personnel and material requirements for maintenance work.

Lead efforts alongside the Maintenance Supervisor to ensure a high-performing maintenance department, including vendor selection, maintenance backlog management, meeting facilitation and staff oversight.

Effectively utilize BPMS, to coordinate, prioritize and manage work orders. Maintain accurate documentation of completed work orders, preventative maintenance processes and updates to equipment records.

Partner with Environmental, Health and Safety team to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulation in daily operations.

Coordinate with Maintenance Clerk to oversee procurement and inventory of spare and consumable parts (including critical spares), while ensuring cost control within the established budget.

Maintain a clean, safe, and injury-free work environment by ensuring health and safety procedures are understood and executed by all employees.

Know and follow policies and procedures of the company, including those governing financial controls, hot work authorization, non-routine operations, and electrical task assignments. Shares information that would benefit other members of the team and find ways to improve the delivery of service to our customers.

Strive to continually strengthen PCA’s business philosophy of meeting needs and exceeding expectation for customers. This includes supporting PCA’s Commitment to Service which involves doing what’s right for our customers, focusing on strategies that add value and support growth, and keeping the promises that we make.

Position Requirements

Education equivalent to associate’s degree or completed certification in production maintenance.

5+ years’ experience in equipment and electrical maintenance.

Ability to work an alternative work schedule and flexible hours as needed.

Must have an average degree of technical expertise and understanding in some or all maintenance fields.

High degree of safety awareness a must.

Strong organization and analytical skills

Must be able to work in a team environment to meet goals.

Effective communication skills.

Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures regarding containerboard manufacturing.

Working knowledge of computer systems including experience with Microsoft Office and maintenance scheduling software.

Experience with manufacturing safety practices preferred.

Strong mechanical, mathematical, safety and environmental skills.

Good understanding of environmental issues including waste water discharge and back flow devices.

Strong leadership and supervisory skills.