Strategic Maintenance Planner & Scheduler

JBS USA; Tolleson (AZ); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

JBS USA in Tolleson, AZ is seeking a Maintenance Planner to coordinate daily and weekend maintenance work with supervisors and production teams. You will translate requests into work orders, align parts, and ensure available resources.

You will review backlogs, schedule PMs, monitor downtime, and keep critical maintenance tasks advancing. The role requires strong organization, Excel proficiency, and effective communication in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; Associate degree or technical training in Maintenance, Industrial Technology, Business Administration, or a related fieldpreferred.
• Previous experience in a maintenance planning, maintenance clerk, parts coordinator, or administrative support rolepreferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Outlook, and Word.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with maintenance, production, and vendor partners.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Work with the maintenance supervisors, maintenance leads and production supervisors on a daily basis on work that needs to get done that day, or on the weekend.
• Assigns work based on the equipment availability schedule and give the work orders to the maintenance supervisors for the tasks to be performed on that day.
• Orders parts for all jobs that we do not have the parts in stock to carry out.
• Visits every work request that crosses their desk to determine schedule, and parts needs.
• Reviews the backlog report on a daily basis and is working with the maintenance supervisors that we are prioritizing properly.
• Turns work requests into work orders.
• Run weekly printout of all pms for the upcoming week.
• Assigns pm tasks and tracks the pm work orders that are open that need to be a priority.
• Monitors the downtime report and determines if we need to look at the frequency of pm on a certain piece of equipment.
• Maintains a daily report of critical work that has yet to be scheduled.
• Visits each department head daily and goes through the open work and determines if something should be moved up on the priority list. Ex Continuous, Filter room, WWTP, Hide and then schedules said work accordingly.
• No work order to be given to a maintenance supervisor unless all parts are on hand to carry out the task.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Excel

Outlook

Word

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Bilingual English/Spanish

Maintenance planning experience

Education

Associate degree or technical training in Maintenance/Industrial Technology/Business Administration

Job description

JBS USA in Tolleson, AZ is seeking a Maintenance Planner to coordinate daily and weekend maintenance work with supervisors and production teams. You will translate requests into work orders, align parts, and ensure available resources.

You will review backlogs, schedule PMs, monitor downtime, and keep critical maintenance tasks advancing. The role requires strong organization, Excel proficiency, and effective communication in a fast-paced environment.