Maintenance Planner in our food manufacturing facility oversees the strategic planning, scheduling, and coordination of maintenance activities to ensure equipment reliability, regulatory compliance, and minimal production downtime.

Key Responsibilities include:

Maintenance Strategy & Planning

• Develop and manage preventive, predictive, corrective and condition-based maintenance plans.

• Create and maintain long-term maintenance schedules (up to 12 months) aligned with production goals.

• Develop and manage work orders and job plans using CMMS (CMMS experience is a must, CWORKS is a preferred CMMS).

Regulatory & Safety Compliance

• Ensure all maintenance activities meet food safety standards (e.g., HACCP, SQF, GMP).

• Maintain maintenance documentation for audits and inspections.

• Collaborate with QA, HR and safety teams to uphold hygiene, personnel and food safety protocols.

Resource Management and Coordination

• Manage and schedule technicians, contractors and equipment access to minimize production disruption in coordination with Production and QAs.

• Order, maintain and manage spare parts inventory.

• Optimize labor, material usage and inventory to improve cost-efficiency.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Liaise with production, engineering, quality & HR departments to align maintenance with operational and other business needs.

• Lead maintenance planning meetings and communicate priorities to stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement

• Analyze work center performance data and predict trends for servicing needs.

• Enter data into the CMMS and develop PM plans for equipment.

• Work with departments to ensure sufficient spares are available. Order parts if and when needed.

• Ensure the system is updated to include all required info.

• Develop a PM schedule for new and existing machines/equipment.

• Send out requests for PM and order spare parts for any outstanding work found during the PM.

• Prepare the downtime report for the defined period and review with PM team members

• Ensure PMs are completed on time and reschedule if or when needed.

• Create and update stock tooling drawings as required.

• Establish and maintain suitable inventory levels for spare parts.

• Create spare part list and organize by machines in order to easily track where parts are being used most.

• Analyze daily stock movement and establish visuals for min and max stock quantities.

• Support capital projects, as well as equipment repairs and upgrades.

Qualifications & Skills

• Experience: 5?8 years in maintenance planning, preferably in a large or medium-size food manufacturing.
• Education: Bachelor?s Diploma or degree in mechanical/electrical engineering or industrial maintenance.
• Systems: Proficiency in CMMS software (CWorks preferred, but not a must) and Microsoft Office (especially Excel & Word).
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of maintenance best practices and food safety regulations.
• Strong analytical skills, including troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills, effective in quickly identifying issues, causes and sustainable corrective actions.
• Maintenance
• Ability to read/understand and analyze Electrical, Mechanical, Electronics & other Equipment / Machinery / Facilities Drawings and Schematics
• Analysis skills
• Purchasing
• Root cause analysis
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, problem-solving, time management, organizational and team building abilities.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $80,000.00-$90,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Work Location: In person