Maintenance Planner

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

Work Planning and Preparation

• Develop detailed maintenance job plans for corrective, preventive, predictive, condition-based, and project maintenance activities.
• Plan work based on priorities established by the Maintenance Area Supervisor and Area Team.
• Own release-to-schedule readiness for all planned maintenance work orders.
• Develop complete work packages including labor estimates, craft requirements, tools, materials, permits, safety requirements, procedures, and contractor support requirements.
• Utilize craft knowledge, engineering resources, OEM documentation, equipment history, and field inspections to develop accurate and effective maintenance job plans.
• Maintain strong knowledge of systems, equipment, and manufacturing processes within assigned areas of responsibility.
• Support outage planning by defining work scope, sequencing activities, identifying constraints, and assisting in critical path planning.

CMMS and Backlog Management

• Review the maintenance backlog daily to ensure work orders are accurately defined, prioritized, and maintained within the CMMS.
• Verify work requests contain appropriate descriptions, asset assignments, priorities, and scope definitions.
• Remove duplicate work orders and improve overall backlog quality.
• Generate work requests for equipment requiring corrective maintenance when identified during routine activities.
• Maintain a minimum of two weeks of fully planned, ready-to-schedule, non-PM backlog within assigned areas.
• Maintain equipment history, job plans, and planning documentation within the CMMS.
• Support continuous improvement of CMMS data quality and work management processes.

Reliability and Maintenance Strategy

• Support reliability improvement initiatives through development and optimization of preventive maintenance (PM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), and predictive maintenance programs.
• Optimize PM job plans utilizing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) principles and criticality-based decision making.
• Develop standard job plans, PM procedures, CBM tasks, standard work instructions, and maintenance documentation.
• Analyze condition monitoring and predictive maintenance reports and generate follow-up work orders as required.
• Track CBM program effectiveness and support efforts to reduce equipment failures, downtime, and maintenance costs.
• Assist with asset reliability improvement projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

Material Readiness and Kitting

• Ensure frequently used spare parts are established and maintained within the storeroom inventory.
• Identify and coordinate procurement of required non-stock materials and services for planned work.
• Develop and stage maintenance kits for work where material readiness is critical to execution success.
• Verify kit completeness and readiness before scheduled maintenance activities and outages.
• Ensure all required materials, special tools, permits, drawings, procedures, and documentation are available before work is released for scheduling.
• Maintain organized and efficient kitting and staging areas that support maintenance execution efficiency.

Work Readiness and Scheduling Support

• Participate in Gemba walks and readiness reviews for critical maintenance activities.
• Participate in pre-job walkthroughs to validate scope, safety requirements, access requirements, labor estimates, and material readiness.
• Review published schedules and verify planned work has appropriate labor and resource allocation.
• Collaborate with Maintenance Supervisors, Schedulers, Operations, Engineering, and Reliability personnel to ensure successful execution of scheduled work.
• Provide planning support for outages, shutdowns, and major maintenance activities.
• Support schedule compliance initiatives by identifying constraints and readiness gaps before execution.

Maintenance Execution Support

• Provide planning and technical support during execution of critical maintenance activities.
• Assist maintenance teams in resolving work execution barriers and readiness issues.
• Perform job plan audits during maintenance execution to verify accuracy of scope, procedures, labor estimates, materials, and safety requirements.
• Coordinate contractor activities associated with planned maintenance work as assigned.
• Verify work quality supports safe equipment operation and long-term asset reliability.
• Support equipment startup and return-to-service activities following planned outages and major maintenance events.

Work Order Closeout and Continuous Improvement

• Ensure work orders overseen by the planner are properly finalized and closed in accordance with plant work management standards.
• Capture execution feedback and incorporate improvements into future job plans and maintenance procedures.
• Update job plans, bills of materials, labor estimates, and maintenance documentation based on actual execution results.
• Update shift narratives, maintenance reports, and outage documentation as required.
• Participate in root cause analyses (RCA), corrective action development, and reliability investigations.
• Develop, maintain, and improve standard operating procedures, one-point lessons, and maintenance best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on maintenance productivity, schedule compliance, reliability, and equipment availability.

Safety, Leadership, and Team Participation

• Ensure all planned work complies with Reynolds safety standards, environmental requirements, regulatory requirements, and company policies.
• Participate in and support daily, weekly, outage, and area team meetings.
• Support emergency breakdown events after stabilization by providing equipment knowledge, job plans, repair procedures, material identification, and technical planning assistance.
• Promote a culture of safety, accountability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as backup for WEM Supervisors and other maintenance leadership positions as assigned.
• Support contractor safety and compliance requirements during maintenance activities.

You will love it here if… 

• You put safety first, always
• You listen, learn, and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork, and achieving shared goals
• You treat all people with respect, operating ethically, and embrace inclusivity
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

We need you to have: 

            Not a good fit but know someone who is? Please refer them! 

  Local candidates only, no relocation assistance available 

Join Reynolds Consumer Products and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!

For applicants or employees who are disabled or require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, you may request assistance by emailing us at Recruitment@ReynoldsBrands.com.

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RCP affords equal employment opportunities to applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, disability status, sex, marital status, protected veteran status, pregnancy, national origin, genetics, genetic information, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. RCP conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.