Maintenance Planner: Planning, Reliability & CMMS

Lactalis American Group; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards

Insurance coverage

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Education reimbursement

Job summary

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

The role covers planning, scheduling, 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, reliability, or manufacturing; dairy/food preferred.
• Experience with CMMS/Maximo and maintenance best practices.
• Proven ability to coordinate across maintenance, operations, reliability, and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop maintenance job plans with labor, parts, tools, safety, and scope.
• Maintain a ready-to-schedule backlog and support weekly scheduling.
• Review and prioritize maintenance work requests for efficiency.
• Prepare work packages for shutdowns, outages, and planned maintenance.
• Create and maintain PMs, job plans, inspection tasks, WO s, and BOMs in Maximo.
• Support root cause analysis and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate spare parts, contractor services, and materials readiness.
• Monitor PM and schedule compliance, backlog, and KPIs.
• Ensure safety requirements are integrated into maintenance plans.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

Reliability

Mechanical maintenance

Electrical maintenance

Excel

Education

Engineering degree or related

Tools

IBM Maximo

CMMS

Job description

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

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