Maintenance Planner-Scheduler

Stryten Energy; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryten Energy operates a Milwaukee, WI facility focused on maintenance planning and reliability for production equipment. The Maintenance Supervisor will organize PM/PdM activities, backlog, and CMMS data quality, coordinating with Operations and Engineering to improve equipment availability.

The role emphasizes safety, budgeting, team leadership, and ongoing training to sustain continuous improvement and reduce recurring equipment issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field preferred; equivalent industrial maintenance planning, reliability, or CMMS experience will be considered.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in industrial maintenance planning, maintenance operations, reliability, mechanical/electrical maintenance, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule skilled maintenance labor requirements for PM/PdM, planned repairs, shutdown work, and safety-critical maintenance activities; the Maintenance Supervisor retains responsibility for directing and managing maintenance personnel.
• Knowledge of CMMS to manage PM planning and scheduling, MRO, work orders, and Preventive/Predictive maintenance.
• Own CMMS data quality for maintenance planning including equipment profiles, PM/PdM schedules, BOMs, job plans, labor estimates, parts, and work history.
• Maintain and prioritize the maintenance backlog based on safety, quality, delivery, and cost impact; track backlog age and readiness.
• Develop and maintain weekly maintenance schedule with Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering; ensure planned work is ready before scheduling.
• Define scope, labor, parts, drawings, safety requirements, contractor support, and duration for planned work.
• Develop and maintain critical spare parts lists, equipment BOMs and min/max stocking; identify risks to spare availability.
• Review downtime and history to identify recurring failures and work with Maintenance/Engineering on corrective actions.
• Ensure major work orders include failure info, corrective action, labor hours, parts, and downtime for reliability analysis.
• Track KPIs: PM compliance, schedule compliance, planned vs unplanned work, backlog age, repeat failures, critical spare availability.
• Identify opportunities to reduce maintenance cost and increase equipment availability.
• Write procedures for Preventive Maintenance tasks using CMMS; navigate CMMS to schedule Planned Work.

Skills

Maintenance planning

CMMS

Scheduling

Backlog management

Safety compliance

Budgeting

Root cause analysis

Team coordination

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Equivalent industrial maintenance planning experience

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Stryten Energy operates a growing plastic injection molding and terminal facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We produce plastic components for car batteries and have a stable and growing customer base.

Self-starter with excellent management, problem solving, communication and project management skills. Must be able to effectively organize, plan, schedule and control maintenance planning activities, including PM/PdM, backlog, CMMS data quality and work readiness with emphasis on safety, budgeting, team building and department training. Work effectively with plant engineering and all other departments to establish operational efficiency of production equipment, which relates to elimination of recurring equipment issues, continuous improvement, equipment modular quick change and setup reduction.

• Must be able to plan and schedule skilled maintenance labor requirements for PM/PdM, planned repairs, shutdown work, and safety-critical maintenance activities; the Maintenance Supervisor retains responsibility for directing and managing maintenance personnel.
• Must have knowledge of computerized maintenance systems to effectively manage all aspects of the maintenance operation including PM planning and scheduling, MRO, work order system, and Preventive/Predictive Operation.
• Own CMMS data quality for maintenance planning, including equipment profiles, PM/PdM schedules, equipment BOMs, job plans, labor estimates, required parts, and accurate work order history.
• Maintain and prioritize the maintenance backlog based on Safety, Quality, Delivery/Production and Cost impact, including backlog age and readiness for execution.
• Develop and maintain the weekly maintenance schedule in coordination with Operations, Maintenance and Engineering, ensuring planned work is ready to execute before it is scheduled.
• Ensure planned work includes a defined scope, required labor, parts, tools, drawings/procedures, safety requirements, contractor support when applicable, and estimated duration.
• Develop and maintain critical spare parts lists, equipment BOMs and min/max stocking requirements; identify and escalation critical spare availability risks before they impact production.
• Review downtime and work order history to identify recurring equipment failures and partner with Maintenance and Engineering on permanent corrective actions.
• Ensure significant work orders are properly closed with failure/cause information, corrective action, labor hours, parts used and equipment downtime to support reliability analysis.
• Track and report maintenance planning KPIs including PM compliance, schedule compliance, planned versus unplanned work, backlog age, repeat failures, and critical spare availability.
• Must have the ability to implement and sustain elimination of recurring equipment issues.
• Support maintenance budget requirements by improving planned work, controlling MRO usage, and identifying cost reduction opportunities.
• Hands‑on field verification is required to ensure job plans, PM procedures, parts, tools and work instructions accurately reflect equipment conditions and maintenance needs.
• Investigates equipment failures, identifies root causes, develops preventative measures
• Must be able to identify opportunities that ultimately reduce maintenance cost and increase equipment availability.
• Comply with current Quality Systems requirements.
• Must be able to write relevant procedures for Preventive Maintenance tasks using the CMMS software.
• Must be able navigate the CMMS software to schedule Preventive Maintenance activities.
• Must be able to sufficiently use the CMMS software to schedule Planned Work activities and report outs.
• Perform other work as assigned by Management including 5S cleaning
• Attend all meetings and training as scheduled
• Comply with local, state, and federal guidelines as specified in codes.
• Comply with plant safety, healthy and personnel policies.
• Additional responsibilities as neededto support the team and company goals.

Education, Experience, Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field preferred; equivalent industrial maintenance planning, reliability, or CMMS experience will be considered.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in industrial maintenance planning, maintenance operations, reliability, mechanical/electrical maintenance, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

Competencies, Skills, Knowledge

• Must possess required computer skills to properly and effectively perform the job. Required computer skills relate to Microsoft office programs i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Other computer skills relate to maintenance management programs.
• Strong understanding of maintenance principles, practices and procedures
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Be a self‑starter team-oriented person with exceptional organizational, communication and multi‑tasking skills.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• This position is required to be on site at our Milwaukee, WI facility.
• Occasionally standing, sitting, walking, bending and twisting.
• Must be able to be safe around operating machinery for inspection of condition and viewing effectiveness of PM’s.
• Will be exposed to varying environmental conditions (hot, cold, humid)
• Occasional lifting from grams up to 50 pounds

Travel

• >10%