Maintenance Planner & Scheduler — Maximize Uptime & Efficiency

Bell & Evans; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly Pay

Full Benefits

Job summary

Bell & Evans is seeking a highly organized Maintenance Planner and Scheduler to support our Maintenance Department at the Kentucky facility. You will plan and coordinate maintenance activities, ensuring alignment with production schedules and downtime plans.

Collaborate with Maintenance leadership, Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, sanitation, and outside service providers to ensure work is properly planned, resourced, and completed.

Qualifications

• Must have a high school diploma or GED.
• Excellent organizational and time-management abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced production environment.
• Strong communication and coordination skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook).
• Driver's license required.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prioritize, and schedule preventive and corrective maintenance work.
• Create and update maintenance work orders in Business Central or the applicable maintenance management system.
• Develop daily, weekly, and longer-term maintenance schedules.
• Coordinate maintenance activities around production schedules and planned downtime to minimize operational disruptions.
• Review work requests to determine scope, priority, labor requirements, parts, tools, safety considerations, and scheduling needs.
• Coordinate with MRO, Purchasing, Maintenance, and vendors to ensure parts, materials, tools, and services are available before work begins.
• Coordinate outside preventive maintenance and service work and maintain appropriate vendor documentation.
• Maintain accurate equipment records, asset information, preventive maintenance schedules, work histories, and work order documentation.
• Monitor maintenance backlog, schedule compliance, work order completion, labor utilization, downtime, and other maintenance metrics.
• Support reporting related to maintenance labor hours, completed and open work, delayed work, and maintenance activity.
• Communicate schedule changes, priority conflicts, parts delays, downtime requirements, and work status to Maintenance leadership and affected departments.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintenance planning, preventive maintenance effectiveness, equipment reliability, cost control, and workflow efficiency.
• Support maintenance staffing and resource planning by reviewing workload, backlog, downtime trends, and labor requirements.
• Promote a safe, clean, organized, and efficient work environment while following all Bell & Evans safety, food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Organizational skills

Time management

Multitasking

Communication

Coordination

Microsoft Office

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Business Central

ERP systems

CMMS

Work order systems

Maintenance planning software

Job description

Bell & Evans is seeking a highly organized Maintenance Planner and Scheduler to support our Maintenance Department at the Kentucky facility. You will plan and coordinate maintenance activities, ensuring alignment with production schedules and downtime plans.

Collaborate with Maintenance leadership, Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, sanitation, and outside service providers to ensure work is properly planned, resourced, and completed.