Reliability & Maintenance Planner — Heavy Manufacturing

Career Strategy Consultants, Inc.; Carthage (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Strategy Consultants is seeking an experienced Reliability & Maintenance Planner/Scheduler for a large manufacturing client in Carthage, Tennessee. Reporting to the Reliability & Maintenance Manager, this position will plan, schedule, and coordinate non-emergency maintenance activities to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance costs.

The planner will work with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and plant personnel to coordinate preventive, predictive,

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience within a heavy manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of industrial maintenance and reliability practices.
• Maintenance experience involving mechanical and electrical manufacturing equipment.
• Experience with asset reliability systems and technologies.
• Experience with preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
• Working knowledge of CMMS and ERP systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Strong planning, scheduling, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate proactive maintenance activities for assigned plant areas.
• Develop detailed maintenance job plans, including labor, materials, parts, equipment, and other resources required to complete planned work.
• Manage non-emergency work orders and maintenance backlogs.
• Coordinate preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities.
• Support maintenance activities designed to improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Participate in and help facilitate weekly maintenance planning meetings, scheduled downtime, and plant outages.
• Maintain accurate work-order and equipment information within the plant's CMMS.
• Work with Reliability Engineering and plant departments to incorporate predictive maintenance technologies into work plans.
• Utilize ERP and CMMS systems to monitor and manage maintenance performance.
• Provide technical assistance and maintenance expertise to assigned plant areas.
• Support maintenance and reliability projects with responsibility for assigned lower-risk projects as needed.
• Assist with training maintenance personnel on new equipment, software, methodologies, and procedures.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend opportunities to continuously improve maintenance and production processes.
• Participate in major equipment failure investigations within assigned areas.
• Conduct safety and preventive maintenance activities, including inspections, audits, employee interactions, and facility tours.
• Ensure maintenance activities are completed in accordance with applicable safety requirements and housekeeping standards.
• Assist with identifying replacements for obsolete equipment components and coordinating procurement for planned work.
• Maintain required compliance and visual management standards.
• Manage additional maintenance and reliability projects as assigned.

Skills

Planning & scheduling

Asset reliability systems and tecn...

Education

Post-secondary education in Administration, Engineering, or a technical college diploma in Electrical or Mechanical discipline

Tools

CMMS

ERP systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Career Strategy Consultants is seeking an experienced Reliability & Maintenance Planner/Scheduler for a large manufacturing client in Carthage, Tennessee. Reporting to the Reliability & Maintenance Manager, this position will plan, schedule, and coordinate non-emergency maintenance activities to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance costs.

The planner will work with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, and plant personnel to coordinate preventive, predictive,