Maintenance Planner: Maximo-Driven Reliability & Scheduling

ANDRITZ; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ANDRITZ is seeking a highly organized Maintenance Planner to support a paper mill with planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance work. The role leverages IBM Maximo to develop job plans, manage work orders, and optimize resource use across the mill.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in industrial maintenance or planning, strong CMMS experience, and a solid understanding of maintenance best practices and P&ID interpretation. Occasional travel applies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of maintenance planning, maintenance supervision, reliability, or industrial maintenance experience.
• Experience using a CMMS.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings, P&IDs, equipment manuals, and maintenance procedures.
• Experience in pulp, paper, tissue, packaging, or heavy manufacturing industries.
• Knowledge of predictive maintenance technologies including vibration analysis, thermography, ultrasound, and motor diagnostics.
• Experience with outage planning and execution.
• Familiarity with SAP, Power BI, or maintenance KPI dashboarding.
• Team-oriented with strong organizational, planning, and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling.
• Review, prioritize, and plan maintenance work orders generated through Maximo.
• Develop detailed job plans including labor requirements, estimated durations, tools, permits, and materials.
• Coordinate weekly and daily maintenance schedules with operations, maintenance supervisors, and contractors.
• Ensure all planned work packages contain necessary documentation, procedures, drawings, and safety requirements.
• Maintain and improve planning and scheduling compliance metrics.
• Utilize IBM Maximo for work order management, planning, scheduling, and reporting.
• Create and maintain equipment hierarchies, PM tasks, job plans, and asset records.
• Review work order history and failure codes to identify recurring equipment issues.
• Monitor backlog health and ensure work orders are properly prioritized and executed.
• Support continuous improvement of Maximo data quality and maintenance workflows.
• Coordinate with storeroom personnel to ensure required parts and materials are available before scheduled work.
• Identify long-lead and critical spare parts requirements.
• Work closely with procurement teams on maintenance-related purchasing needs.
• Support preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Participate in root cause analysis and failure investigations.
• Track and report key maintenance KPIs including: Schedule Compliance, PM Compliance, Backlog Management, MTBF, Equipment Availability, Maintenance Cost Performance.
• Recommend improvements to maintenance strategies and asset reliability.
• Ensure all planned work complies with safety standards, lockout/tagout procedures, environmental requirements, and mill policies.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

P&ID interpretation

Technical drawing literacy

Communication

Education

Bachelors in Engineering or related field

Tools

CMMS

Excel

SAP

Power BI

Job description

ANDRITZ is seeking a highly organized Maintenance Planner to support a paper mill with planning, scheduling, and coordinating maintenance work. The role leverages IBM Maximo to develop job plans, manage work orders, and optimize resource use across the mill.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in industrial maintenance or planning, strong CMMS experience, and a solid understanding of maintenance best practices and P&ID interpretation. Occasional travel applies.