Plant Maintenance Planner: Scheduling & PM Optimization

Key People; Marion (OH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Key People is seeking a Maintenance Planner to coordinate and optimize maintenance activities in a fast-paced plant environment. You will partner with Operations, Maintenance, and Reliability Engineering to ensure work is properly planned, prioritized, resourced, and executed.

The role focuses on daily and weekly schedules, preventive maintenance, work order planning, and coordination of plant resources to minimize production impact and maximize reliability.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industrial maintenance, maintenance planning, reliability, operations, or related experience.
• Experience working within a CMMS.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain daily and weekly maintenance schedules based on plant priorities, resource availability, and operational needs.
• Review, plan, and coordinate maintenance work orders, ensuring labor, materials, tools, permits, and safety requirements are identified prior to execution.
• Manage the preventive maintenance program, including PM scheduling, completion tracking, and continuous improvement of job plans.
• Coordinate with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, and Storeroom teams to ensure work is prioritized and executed efficiently with minimal impact to production.
• Manage and optimize spare parts inventory to ensure availability for planned maintenance.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Project coordination

Communication skills

Prioritization

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Key People is seeking a Maintenance Planner to coordinate and optimize maintenance activities in a fast-paced plant environment. You will partner with Operations, Maintenance, and Reliability Engineering to ensure work is properly planned, prioritized, resourced, and executed.

The role focuses on daily and weekly schedules, preventive maintenance, work order planning, and coordination of plant resources to minimize production impact and maximize reliability.