Job Description
Maintenance Planner
Posting Start Date:  8/5/25
Job Location:  United States Sugar Savannah

SUMMARY

  • This position is responsible for planning and scheduling work orders and projects.  Requisition’s labor, material, equipment, and services as required.

 

FUNCTIONS

Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions

  • Knows, observes, and enforces all Standard Operating Procedures, safety procedures and rules, environmental practices and GMP guidelines.
  • Responsible for developing detailed work order packages.
  • Attends regular planning/production meetings.
  • Requisitions parts, labor, equipment, services, and material.
  • Builds daily, weekly, and shut-down work schedules.
  • Estimates planned labor resources for work schedules.
  • Tracks work orders and preventive maintenance.
  • Assists with inventory levels and control.
  • Keeps detailed records in CMMS.
  • Responsible for managing work orders with the CMMS
  • Creates or screens each Work Order during the planning stage to see it is properly filled out; researches and adds additional information as required; secures authorization for the Work Order.
  • Responsible for working with operational designees to properly prioritize and schedule maintenance activities.
  • Routinely reviews WOs completed during prior shifts and weekends for compliance with planning process.
  • Ensures the availability of any special tools, procedures, supplies, or equipment needed to do the scheduled jobs.
  • Ensures design packages have been provided prior to initiation of work.
  • Periodically checks crew backlog to ensure work is being completed in a timely fashion.
  • Prepares Weekly/Daily maintenance schedules.
  • Regularly reviews maintenance metrics with the Area Maintenance Manager, and the Maintenance Coordinator and makes recommendations for improvement.

 

Additional Responsibilities

  •        Ensures compliance with all company policies.

 

 

          Company Conformance Statements

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:

  • Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
  • Interact professionally with co-workers, Company business associates and the general public.
  • Work together in a cooperative spirit to serve the best interests of the Company.
  • Operate in a fully responsible manner and comply with the law and Company policy.

 

Company SHE Primary Responsibilities

  • Understand and observe all Safety, Health & Environmental rules, and procedures.
  • Report or correct any unsafe act or condition.
  • Report any chemical/fuel spill to supervision.
  • Report any pain or discomfort to supervision.

 

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Professional Certifications/Licenses

The following are the basic qualifications:

  • High School Diploma

 

The following are the preferred qualifications:

  •  Two years of college or technical school

 

Experience

The following are the basic qualifications:

  • Five years of experience in Industrial Maintenance
  • Intermediate-level user of MS Office applications including MS Project.

 

 

The following are the preferred qualifications:

  • CMMS experience preferred
  • Vocational maintenance training preferred

 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (including any physical demands)

 

The following are the basic qualifications:

  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
  • Duties require standing; walking; sitting; use of hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, pick-up, pinch, type, or feel; reaching with hands and arms; climbing and balancing; talking and listening; close and distance vision with depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus. Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.

 

WORKING CONDITIONS

Equipment Used

  • Basic office equipment, computer software, MS Office

 

Working Conditions

  • Work is in an open, climate-controlled area shared with other employees and is typically performed away from the office for more than half the day.

 

Employee Supervision

  • Supervisor assigns problems in broad general terms and is interested only in overall results achieved. Requires the evaluation of facts in each situation to determine the course of action.

 

Decision Making/Accountability

  • Position results have direct impact on own work group as well as other work groups.