Maintenance Planner | Maximo & Reliability Improvement

Lactalis American Group Inc; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education Reimbursement

Paid Time Off from day one

Retirement plan contributions

Health insurance

Job summary

Lactalis American Group Inc. in Buffalo, NY is seeking a Maintenance Planner responsible for planning, coordinating, and preparing maintenance activities to improve equipment reliability and plant performance.

This role covers maintenance planning, scheduling, preventive maintenance administration, CMMS data management, spare-parts readiness, and cross-functional coordination with Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, Engineering, Procurement, and Storeroom teams.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in maintenance planning, scheduling, or reliability in manufacturing.
• Food/dairy experience preferred.
• Proficient with CMMS, Maximo, and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Develop maintenance job plans with labor, parts, tools, safety, requirements and scope.
• Maintain a ready-to-schedule backlog and support weekly maintenance scheduling.
• Review, prioritize and plan maintenance work requests.
• Prepare work packages for shutdowns, outages and planned maintenance activities.
• Create and maintain PMs, job plans, inspection tasks, work orders and BOMs in IBM Maximo.
• Support Root Cause Analysis and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate spare parts, contractor services and materials readiness.
• Monitor PM compliance, schedule compliance, backlog and other maintenance KPIs.
• Ensure safety requirements are incorporated into maintenance work plans.

Skills

Maintenance planning

CMMS

Maximo

Preventive maintenance

Excel

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Associate Degree in Maintenance Technology

Tools

IBM Maximo

Job description

Lactalis American Group Inc. in Buffalo, NY is seeking a Maintenance Planner responsible for planning, coordinating, and preparing maintenance activities to improve equipment reliability and plant performance.

This role covers maintenance planning, scheduling, preventive maintenance administration, CMMS data management, spare-parts readiness, and cross-functional coordination with Maintenance, Operations, Reliability, Engineering, Procurement, and Storeroom teams.