Mechanical Maintenance Planner – Outages & PM

Smurfit Westrock; Florida; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Planner to optimize the use of personnel, materials, and machine downtime, ensuring equipment availability and performance. The role focuses on planning, scheduling, coordinating, and reporting repair activities across corrective, preventive, predictive, and outage work within the maintenance workflow.

The successful candidate will develop complete work order packages, maintain BOMs, and support reliability initiatives by analyzing failures

Qualifications

• Associate or apprenticeship with 5+ years of industrial mechanical maintenance experience.
• Experience with rotating equipment, pumps, gears, bearings and conveying systems.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings, P&IDs, equipment manuals and specs.
• Experience in a unionized environment is preferred.
• Experience in pulp and paper industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, coordinate and report repair activities for production equipment.
• Develop and maintain PM work orders for mechanical equipment.
• Lead weekly planning coordination meetings with operations and maintenance.
• Prepare scopes of work for in-house and contractor work.
• Track planning metrics and improve backlog and schedule compliance.

Skills

Rotating equipment

Pumps

Gearboxes

Bearings

Conveying systems

Hydraulic systems

Pneumatic systems

Steam systems

Mechanical power transmission

5S/Lean/Six Sigma

Education

Associate’s degree in a technical field

Mechanical maintenance apprenticeship

8+ years industrial mechanical maintenance experience

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Project

PI

Oracle

JD Edwards (JDE)

Job description

Smurfit Westrock is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Planner to optimize the use of personnel, materials, and machine downtime, ensuring equipment availability and performance. The role focuses on planning, scheduling, coordinating, and reporting repair activities across corrective, preventive, predictive, and outage work within the maintenance workflow.

The successful candidate will develop complete work order packages, maintain BOMs, and support reliability initiatives by analyzing failures