Maintenance Planner

Smurfit Westrock

West Chester, OH

Estimated pay: Est. $29–$47/hr (market estimate, not employer-stated)

Shift: Full time

**Job title:** **Maintenance Planner / Scheduler**

**Reports To:** Maintenance Manager

**Department:** Maintenance

**Summary:**

The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler is responsible for managing the efficient and effective use of personnel, materials, and machine downtime to maintain production equipment availability and performance at satisfactory levels. The Maintenance Planner/Scheduler executes the critical planning, scheduling, coordinating, and reporting of preventative maintenance and repair work orders to ensure operational effectiveness.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:**

• Maintain backlog of work orders and move work orders to the ready-to-schedule phase, and review technician feedback upon work completion.
• Manage work order priority, develop job plans, define parts and materials and engage the proper resources to develop a safe, effective and efficient work control plan.
• Coordinate planning activities such as scope identification and control, scheduling, risk assessments, execution and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Operations and Maintenance lead to ensure that plans and schedules are aligned based on the availability of equipment to support the plant operations.
• Incorporate safety requirements and JHA’s (Job Hazard Analysis) for all work orders and jobs to support and drive safe work behaviors.
• Oversee the end-to-end planning and execution of work orders and resolve any work order issues.
• Maintain real-time equipment bill of materials in J.D. Edwards CMMS software, including updating parts that have changed and new equipment.
• Schedule preventive maintenance on all equipment in the plant and surrounding areas and maintain accurate records of work completed in J.D. Edwards CMMS software
• Compile work order packets incorporating work documentation from technicians to analyze the number of man-hours and resources needed to close out the work order.
• Utilize J.D. Edwards CMMS to lead technicians in reliability efforts of precision, predictive, and preventive maintenance for annual budget planning.
• Work cross-divisionally with operations and maintenance to enable efficiency and consistency for plant operations.
• Facilitate daily core team meetings to review planned work orders, prioritize work order viability, and schedule the maintenance orders to reduce any machinery downtime.

• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Overtime is required.