Strategic Maintenance Planner: Maximize Uptime

Lakeside Book Company; Crawfordsville (IN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Lakeside Book Company in Crawfordsville, IN is seeking a Maintenance Planner for the South Plant to organize and prioritize maintenance work, coordinate with operations, supervisors, and vendors to minimize downtime, and ensure safe, reliable production.

You will plan jobs by estimating labor, materials, tools, and skills, prepare resources, manage CMMS data, and monitor work order backlog to control costs and improve maintenance processes.

Qualifications

• Experience with CMMS systems (prefer MVP-One).
• Strong electrical and mechanical aptitude; read schematics.
• Minimum 2 years of maintenance planning in industrial settings.
• Knowledge of maintenance methods, tools and PM practices.
• Strong decision-making, attention to detail and organization (5S).
• Experience with vendors and project coordination preferred.
• Flexible schedule; commitment to safety; education or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Manages and prioritizes maintenance work using CMMS; ensures requests are accurate and defined.
• Plans jobs by estimating labor, materials, tools, and skills for routine and complex projects.
• Prepares resources (documents, parts, tools) and ensures readiness before scheduling.
• Balances workloads with available labor; coordinates with supervisors, operations, and vendors.
• Oversees work order backlog, scheduling, inventory usage, and procurement to control costs.
• Improves maintenance processes by analyzing trends, maintaining CMMS data integrity, reporting insights.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

CMMS experience

MVP-One familiarity

Electrical aptitude

Mechanical aptitude

Maintenance planning

Reading schematics

Vendor management

5S / organization

Safety compliance

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Lakeside Book Company in Crawfordsville, IN is seeking a Maintenance Planner for the South Plant to organize and prioritize maintenance work, coordinate with operations, supervisors, and vendors to minimize downtime, and ensure safe, reliable production.

You will plan jobs by estimating labor, materials, tools, and skills, prepare resources, manage CMMS data, and monitor work order backlog to control costs and improve maintenance processes.